Sem A Unit 3: Civil War & Reconstruction

Question 1

Large piece of land in the South where one cotton is planted for widespread commercial sale. These farms used slave labor

Answer 1

Plantations

Question 2

Compromise between the North and South by Henry Clay regarding the expansion of slavery in the new territories. 1. California admitted as a free state 2. Slaves banned in Washington D.C. 3. Tougher fugitive Slave Law enacted

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

Individuals usually from the North who wanted to end slavery in the entire United States

Answer 3

Abolitionists

Question 4

Compromise introduced by Stephen Douglas, which repealed the Missouri compromise (1920) by applying popular sovereignty which allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery within their territories.

Answer 4

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 5

Supreme Court decision (1857) stating that this slave did not have the right to sue for his freedom since he was not a U.S. citizen, but the property of another person. Decision also stated that slavery could not be prohibited anywhere in the United States (including the north)

Answer 5

Dred Scott Decision

Question 6

Presidential election in which Abraham Lincoln was elected president. As a result Southern states starting with South Carolina decided to leave the Union.

Answer 6

Election of 1860

Question 7

Confederate forces fired on the federal fort located in the Harbor of Charleston South Carolina which led to the beginning of the Civil War

Answer 7

Fort Sumter

Question 8

What were the Long Term Causes of the Civil War

Answer 8

1. Slavery: Differing economic needs/reliance on slavery in the south 2. Sectionalism- loyalty to the section of the country as opposed to loyalty to the nation 3. extension of Slavery State’s right

Question 9

Northern Strategy first suggested by General Windfield Scott that proposed strangling the South with a naval blockade of Southern ports and the use of Northern naval power to seize control of the Mississippi and split the Confederacy in two.

Answer 9

ANACONDA PLAN

Question 10

Wartime act by President Lincoln that announced all slaves in those territories still in rebellion would be freed. The act did not free any slaves in the border states.

Answer 10

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Question 11

This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War. After this battle the South never would attack into the Northern territories again.

Answer 11

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

Question 12

Location where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ullyses S. Grant. Thus ending the Civil War

Answer 12

APPOPMMATTOX

Question 13

Speech Given by Abraham Lincoln honoring those who fought and lost their lives at the Battle of Gettysubrg.

Answer 13

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

Question 14

This Amendment abolished slavery in the entire United States

Answer 14

13th AMENDMENT

Question 15

This amendment gave African Americans citenzhip and equal protection under the law.

Answer 15

14TH AMENDMENT

Question 16

This Amendment gave African Americans the Right to vote

Answer 16

15th AMENDMENT

Question 17

laws written by Southern States that prevented freedmen (person of color) from voting, holding office serving on juries.

Answer 17

BLACK CODES

Question 18

System of agriculture used in South where Farmers would give a portion of their crops to the landowner in exchange for use of land

Answer 18

SHARECROPPING

Question 19

Landowner forces a worker to pay off a debt with work

Answer 19

DEBT PEONAGE

Question 20

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of the unstable social, financial and political climate.

Answer 20

CARPETBAGGER

Question 21

First African American in Congress

Answer 21

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Question 22

Time in the South (end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th Century) when racism in the country was at an all time high.

Answer 22

THE NADIR

Question 23

plan by Abraham Lincoln to reintegrate the South after the end of the Civil War

Answer 23

10 PERCENT PLAN

Question 24

Group of the Republican party who believed the South should be punished and African Americans be given full political rights. This group attempted to impeach (kick out) President Andrew Johnson from office due to his opposition to Republican reconstruction plan.

Answer 24

RADICAL REPUBLICANS

Question 25

Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction that required racial segregation

Answer 25

JIM CROW LAWS

Question 26

Groups that believe in White Supremacy. Formed in the South to terrorize African American and helped enforce segregation in the South

Answer 26

KU KLUX KLAN

Question 27

Fees charged only to African Americans who registered to vote. The tax was used to prevent African Americans from voting

Answer 27

POLL TAX

Question 28

Reading tests given to blacks during the Jim Crow era in the South to prove they could read in order to vote. Tests were not given to whites.

Answer 28

LITERACY TESTS

Question 29

Government policy that promised settlers 160 acres of land for free if they farmed it for five years.

Answer 29

THE HOMESTEAD ACT

Question 30

Act which allowed each male Indian 160 acres of reservation land as their own private property. This act was an attempt to assimilate the Indians to the American way of life.

Answer 30

DAWES ACT

Question 31

The completionof this railroad in line in 1869 allowed for the expansion of the western frontier and opened up the Great Plains to settlers

Answer 31

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

Question 32

Defeat of Federal forces led by General Gusters by the Sioux Indians such as Crazy Horze and Sitting Bull (holy man).

Answer 32

Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 33

Name for the system where Federal lands were set aside for Indians to live in order to help settle the West.

Answer 33

THE RESERVATION SYSTEM

Question 34

Name three technologies that helped settlers live and farm on the Great Plains.

Answer 34

1. Steel Plow to fetilize the soil
2. Barb wire to mark private property
3. Windmills to pump water in order to irrigate the crops