Semester 1 Final

Question 1

John Brown

Answer 1

a white abolitionist and is responsible for the pottawatomie creek massacre. conducted the raid of harpers ferry

Question 2

James Lane

Answer 2

a kansas leader, he was a senator, he will become the leader of jayhawkers.

Question 3

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 3

president of the union, he spoke out against the Kansas- Nebraska act. when he was elected some southern states started to secede.

Question 4

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 4

nickname given to Kansas from series of attacks by bushwhackers

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

California was admitted as a free state, the fugitive slave act was passed, using popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in area gained from Mexico, and slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.

Question 6

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 6

a court case that said that no african american could be a citizen and they were to be known as property.

Question 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 7

Written and supported by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas, Created the Kansas and Nebraska territories, opened up western lands for settlement, Allowed for the possibility of a Transcontinental to eventually be developed, Repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing Popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery in the new territories. Led to the violence that becomes known as Bleeding kansas

Question 8

Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 8

john brown went to a federal arsenal to steal weapons and was hung for committing treason

Question 9

Border Ruffian

Answer 9

they were apart of the bogus elections, then illegally snuck into Kansas to vote for whether it would be a slave state or not; from Missouri

Question 10

Fort Sumter

Answer 10

the first fort that got hit in the civil war in South Carolina

Question 11

Jefferson Davis

Answer 11

President of Confederates

Question 12

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 12

he was a general in the civil war- hero for helping the union win. won at places like Shiloh and Vicksburg. He was the leader who Lee surrendered to the Appomattox Court House in VA.

Question 13

Robert E. Lee

Answer 13

commander of Confederates, lost to Grant

Question 14

William Clarke Quantrill

Answer 14

leader of the Bushwhackers

Question 15

William T. Sherman

Answer 15

union general who used total war

Question 16

How did the Civil War affect the economies of both sides?

Answer 16

he both suffered economically during the war. the south faced more problems than the north. inflation was one of the problems faced.

Question 17

Gettysburg

Answer 17

Lee became bold so he invaded Pennsylvania; the south was defeated

Question 18

Antietam

Answer 18

when the union found Lee’s battle plans, they knew he was headed North into Maryland. The Union pursued him and that is how the Battle of Antietam started. The end result was Lee’s retreat and a Union victory. This results in in Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 19

Vicksburg

Answer 19

Grant defeated South and gained control of Mississippi

Question 20

The burning of Lawrence

Answer 20

bushwhacker attack on Lawrence, ¼ of the town was destroyed

Question 21

The Emancipation Proclamation-

Answer 21

Lincoln did not want southern states to secede, so he freed the slaves in areas fighting against the Union

Question 22

Jayhawkers

Answer 22

anti-slavery kansans

Question 23

bushwhackers

Answer 23

pro-slavery Missourians

Question 24

Exodusters

Answer 24

african americans (freedmen) who moved from states along the Mississippi river to Kansas

Question 25

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 25

assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 26

the election winner in 1876. he ended reconstruction when entered office

Question 27

Andrew Johnson

Answer 27

vice president to Abraham Lincoln, replaced Lincoln. first to be impeached

Question 28

Amnesty

Answer 28

pardon given to people who made mistakes

Question 29

Black codes

Answer 29

laws that restricted african american’s freedom

Question 30

Segregation

Answer 30

enforced separation of race

Question 31

Sharecropper

Answer 31

somebody who farms on another’s land, tenant farmer

Question 32

Impeach

Answer 32

formal charges against public official

Question 33

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 33

abolished slavery in the United States

Question 34

The Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 34

citizenship rights to african americans

Question 35

The Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 35

the right to vote

Question 36

Grandfather clause

Answer 36

if your grandfather has previously voted, you do not have to take a literacy test

Question 37

Jim Crow

Answer 37

legalized segregation laws

Question 38

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 38

separate but equal

Question 39

sharecropping

Answer 39

when the landowner would provide equipment and tools and somebody would farm for them

Question 40

dividend

Answer 40

a stockholder’s share of a company’s profits, usually a cash payment

Question 41

shareholder

Answer 41

a person who invests in a company by buying stock

Question 42

merger

Answer 42

an easy way of combining companies to keep one company. not consolidation which is combining to create a whole new company

Question 43

consolidation

Answer 43

The practice of combining separate companies

Question 44

rebate

Answer 44

a discount or return of a payment

Question 45

pool

Answer 45

a group sharing in some activity, for example, among railroad barons who made secret agreements and set rates among themselves