sectionalism, civil war and reconstruction

Question 1

John Brown

Answer 1

an opponent of slavery raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to promote a slave uprising on OCt. 16,1859

Question 2

Dred Scott

Answer 2

was an enslaved African American who sued for freedom in the dred scott decision

Question 3

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Kansas-Nebraska territories:

Answer 3

would be allowed to choose whether or not they wanted slavery also known as popular sovereignty

Question 4

The civil war lasted from?

Answer 4

1861-1865

Question 5

The war began when the Confederacy opened fire on federal troops stationed at:

Answer 5

Fort Sumter, a federal installation in the harbor at charleston, south carolina

Question 6

The North produced what percent of the firearms production during the civil war?

Answer 6

97%

Question 7

Approximately how many Blacks fought with the Union during the Civil War?

Answer 7

190,000 freed blacks

Question 8

what was the only state to be created and offered statehood during the Civil War?

Answer 8

West Virginia was aadmitted to the union in 1863

Question 9

Approximately how many died in the American civil war?

Answer 9

620,000

Question 10

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 10

the 16th president issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause.

Question 11

Black Codes

Answer 11

Discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South that severely restricted African Americans’ lives, prohibiting such activities as traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, and marrying whites. Mississippi and South Carolina had been the first states to enact black codes in 1865

Question 12

14th Amendment

Answer 12

an amendment to the U.S. , Constitution, adopted in 1868, that makes all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.-including former slaves- citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws

Question 13

15th Amendment

Answer 13

an amendment to the U.S. , Constitution, adopted in 1870, that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

Question 14

13th Amendment

Answer 14

an amendment to the U.S. , Constitution, adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary seritude

Question 15

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 15

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

Question 16

Confiscation Bill of 1861

Answer 16

allowed the federal government to seize property, including slave property, being used to support the Confederate rebellion.

Question 17

Under popular sovereignty, the decision whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was made by the…

Answer 17

the consent of the people

Question 18

The goal of the Freedman’s Bureau was to…

Answer 18

extend the life of agency that helped blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom by providing economic assistance and legal protection

Question 19

The destructive “march to the sea” was carried out by General:

Answer 19

William T. Sherman

Question 20

The main reason why the North defeated the South in the Civil War was…

Answer 20

Enslaved people fled to join the Union army, depriving the South of labor and strengthening the North with more than 100,000 soldiers.

Question 21

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 21

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), which vividly dramatized the experience of slavery. The book was an immediate sensation. Championed by abolitionists but denounced in the South, it contributed to popular feeling against slavery so much that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War.