Possible Answers? Flashcards
Who was named President of the Confederate States of America in 1861?
Jefferson Davis
What was the site of the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What was the most deadly aspect of the Civil War
Disease
What were the “contraband camps”?
Camps of escaped formerly enslaved people that were organized to help the Union war effort
President Andrew Johnson advocated which of these positions?
Readmission of seceded states provided they ratify the 13th amendment
What is the term for the agreement that made Rutherford B. Hayes President, withdrew Federal troops from the South and effectively ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
What is the term for a tenant farmer who exchanges a share of the crops they produce for the right to farm a ladnowner’s land?
Sharecropper
What was the primary purpose of the 14th Amendment?
To define US citizenship to include all people born within the territory of the United States?
Who led the “March of the Sea”?
William Sherman
Southern Ladies’ Memorial Associations established during Reconstruction were a key force in creating what revisionist story about the Civil War?
The Lost Cause
Which of the following was NOT part of Crittenden’s Compromise?
Abolishing the slave trade in Washington DC
Which of these states was not a member of the confederacy?
Missouri
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people freed in what territory?
Areas declared to be “in rebellion against the United States”
Why did Elizabeth Cady Stantion oppose the 14th amendment?
It introduced the word “male” into the Constitution for the first time
Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephen’s inclufential Cornerstone Speech delcared that the cornerstone of the Confederacy rests upon what?
“the great truth that the negro is not equal to teh white man, that slavery is his natural and normal condition”
