Period Five People and Events

Question 1

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

Answer 1

ends Mexican-American war, we get the Rio Grande and a TON of territory

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

California is a free state, slave trade ended in DC, and Mexican Session was given popular sovereignty

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

People moved to Kansas to vote for who they wanted, caused a lot of conflict

Question 4

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 4

Supreme Court ruled that black Americans were not citizens and that congress does not have the power to stop slavery, meaning Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

Question 5

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 5

attempt to free slaves (not successful), makes the south see the north as violent

Question 6

South Carolina Secedes

Answer 6

because they wanted to keep slavery

Question 7

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 7

frees the slaves in the rebelling territories, Lincoln has made the war about slavery (partly because England and France stop trade with the South now), and black people now run north to join the union army

Question 8

Impeachment of Johnson

Answer 8

not actually impeached, but close by one vote, it was because he violated the tenure of office act

Question 9

13th, 14th, and 15th amendment

Answer 9

free citizens vote

Question 10

Panic of 1873

Answer 10

absolutely trashed the economy

Question 11

Compromise of 1877

Answer 11

Hayes is president but… (1) Federal support of reconstruction was extracted from the south, (2) support of building transcontinental railroad through the south, (3) appointed a Southerner to the presidents cabinet, and (4) limited enforcement of racial equality

Question 12

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 12

Emancipation Proclamation