Slavery, Expansion and the Civil War Regional Differences (Expansion and Slavery):

Question 1

Define Wilmot Proviso

Answer 1

proposed in Congress in 1848, it sought to ban slavery in all new territories; did not pass

Question 2

Missouri Compromise:
​​What did it say?

Answer 2

1820; divided the Louisiana territory at the 36*30 parallel; all states north of the line would now all slavery and states south of it would allow slavery; Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain the balance of power

Question 3

What did the Compromise of 1850 say?

Answer 3

Repealed the Missouri Compromise; had many parts: made California a free state, banned the slave trade in DC, passed the Fugitive Slave Act which made it easier for African Americans to be sent south; and Utah and New Mexico (new states) would have popular sovereignty to decide if slavery would be allowed

Question 4

Kansas Nebraska Act:
​​What did it say?

Answer 4

Allowed for Kansas and Nebraska to have popular sovereignty to decide if they would be slave or free

Question 5

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 5

Letting people vote to decide an issue

Question 6

Why is it called “Bleeding Kansas?”

Answer 6

violence that erupted between pro and anti- slavery groups in Kansas; two governments were set up, border ruffians crossed state lines to vote

Question 7

The Issue of Slavery:
What occurred in Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

Answer 7

A slave rebellion in 1831, that killed 55 white people; the result of the rebellion was stricter slave laws that prohibited their education and did not allow them to gather or travel

Question 8

Who is John Brown? What happened at Harper’s Ferry Virginia?

Answer 8

John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, attempted to lead a slave rebellion by attacking the US arsenal at Harper’s Ferry; very few joined Brown and his fellow raiders, and they were captured and executed for treason

Question 9

Who is Frederick Douglass?

Answer 9

Former slave who became a prominent abolitionist, founder of the abolitionist newspaper, The North Star

Question 10

What was the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 10

Why was this important? Supreme Court case that decided slaves are property, not citizens, and could not use the court system to sue for their freedom

Question 11

Civil War:
Who was elected in 1860? What was his political party?

Answer 11

Abraham Lincoln; Republican Party

Question 12

What did the election of Lincoln lead to?

Answer 12

South Carolina seceded immediatly

Question 13

Define secession:

Answer 13

to withdraw from the union

Question 14

Advantages/Disadvantages of the North:

Answer 14

more money, more population, more food, more factories, more railroads, better Navy

Question 15

Advantages/Disadvantages of the South:

Answer 15

better military leaders, more passionate soldiers, money from cotton and cash crops, fighting on home turf

Question 16

What is the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 16

The Union’s 3 part plan to defeat the Confederacy: blockade of ports, cut off the supply lines at the Mississippi and capture Richmond, VA

Question 17

Define Fort Sumter:

Answer 17

first fighting of the Civil War, the Confederates managed to defeat the Union solders and kick them out of Charleston

Question 18

Define Battle of Bull Run

Answer 18

first full battle of the Civil War; made many realize how brutal and long this war was going to be; Confederate victory

Question 19

Define Battle of Antietam

Answer 19

bloodiest single day battle of the war; Union victory

Question 20

Define Battle of Gettysburg:

Answer 20

turning point of the war in the East; Union victory, ending the Confederate advance into the north

Question 21

Define Battle of Vicksburg:

Answer 21

turning point of the war in the West; the Union took control of the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in half

Question 22

Define Battle of Atlanta:

Answer 22

Union victory; Atlanta was a major railroad hub in the South; began Sherman’s March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah

Question 23

Define Appomattox Courthouse:

Answer 23

Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant here on April 9, 1865

Question 24

Emancipation Proclamation:
​Who issued it?

Answer 24

Abraham Lincoln

Question 25

Emancipation Proclamation:

What did it say?

Answer 25

Promised to free slave ONLY in the states that were in rebellion (the Confederacy)

Question 26

Reconstruction:
Define Lincoln’s Plan (10% plan)

Answer 26

only 10% of a state’s population had to want to rejoin the Union for it to be approved (lenient)

Question 27

Define Wade-Davis Bill (Congressional Reconstruction):

Answer 27

proposed to put Congress in charge of Reconstruction; required 50% of a state’s population to swear allegiance (most strict)

Question 28

Define Johnson’s Plan (Presidential Reconstruction):

Answer 28

Southerner’s had to renounce secession, swear allegiance, pay off war debt and ratify 13th amendment (Republicans thought this was too lenient)

Question 29

What are the 3 Civil War Amendments?

Answer 29

13th: abolish slavery
14th: made all freed slaves (all men) the right to citizenship
15th: gave freed slaves the right to vote
Describe each:

Question 30

Define Freedman’s Bureau:

Answer 30

government organization designed to educate and help freed slaves after their emancipation

Question 31

Define Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Answer 31

Radical Republicans, unhappy with Johnson, impeached him when he fired Sec. of War Edwin Stanton; he was not removed from office by one vote

Question 32

Define Jim Crow Laws:

Answer 32

local and state laws that made segregation legal

Question 33

Define Black Codes:

Answer 33

laws that restricted the freedom of former slaves in order to keep white superiority in Southern states

Question 34

Define Compromise of 1877:

Answer 34

the unofficial agreement that saw Rutherford B Hayes elected president if he would agree to end Reconstruction and withdraw federal troops from the South