Unit 2

Question 1

What was the purpose of compromises like the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 1

Stop slavery from spreading

Question 2

when people vote directly on the issue of slavery, it was called

Answer 2

popular sovereignty

Question 3

the Dred Scott decision said that

Answer 3

Slaves were not free in free states

Question 4

South Carolinas first attempt to secede was over the issue of:

Answer 4

tariff of “abominations”

Question 5

What principle did South Carolina use to justify secession at the start of the Civil war?

Answer 5

State’s rights

Question 6

What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 6

The goal of the war changed to ending slavery

Question 7

the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was

Answer 7

The battle was a turning point in the war

Question 8

President Lincoln’s reconstruction plans after the war included

Answer 8

Kind or lenient treatment of the South

Question 9

What did the 14th Amendment accomplish?

Answer 9

Gave African Americans citizenship

Question 10

What is the purpose of the literacy test?

Answer 10

Prevents African Americans from voting

Question 11

The impact of the Black codes was to

Answer 11

Restrict freedom of former slaves

Question 12

The result of tenant farming and sharecropping was

Answer 12

Economic servitude of former slaves

Question 13

What was the result of the South’s attack on Fort Sumter?

Answer 13

The South won support for its cause

Question 14

Whose plan for Reconstruction did Andrew Johnson support?

Answer 14

Abraham Lincolns plan

Question 15

Who helped President Lincoln organize the first African American regime?

Answer 15

Frederick Douglass

Question 16

Who was the abolitionist who tried to arm a slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 16

John Brown

Question 17

How did white Southerners get around the literacy test and the poll tax?

Answer 17

Grandfather clause

Question 18

How did the Radical Republicans respond to Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?

Answer 18

By starting the impeachment process

Question 19

Union general who marched through Georgia burning everything in his path:

Answer 19

William Sherman

Question 20

Organization set up to help former slaves adjust to being free

Answer 20

Freedmans Bureau

Question 21

North or South: Who had more cash in the bank?

Answer 21

North

Question 22

North or South: Strong military leadership

Answer 22

South

Question 23

North or South: Larger population

Answer 23

North

Question 24

North or South: Fighting a defensive war

Answer 24

South

Question 25

North or South: More railroads

Answer 25

North

Question 26

North or South: Strong civilian or political leadership

Answer 26

North

Question 27

Fighting to preserve way of life

Answer 27

South

Question 28

Greater ability to replace soldiers and supplies

Answer 28

NOrth

Question 29

Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe arousing anti-slavery sentiment in the North:

Answer 29

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 30

Taking states out of the Union

Answer 30

Secession

Question 31

Network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons flee north

Answer 31

Underground Railroad

Question 32

California entered as a free state, rest of the territories in Mexican Cession by election

Answer 32

Compromise of 1850

Question 33

First state to cede from the Union

Answer 33

South Carolina

Question 34

State where the Confederate capital was established

Answer 34

Virginia

Question 35

Site of John Browns raid that was a turning point for the South

Answer 35

Harper's Ferry

Question 36

Rebellion (synonym)

Answer 36

Insurrection

Question 37

Abolished slavery

Answer 37

13th amendment

Question 38

Rebuilding the South

Answer 38

Reconstruction

Question 39

Laws in the South making segregation legal

Answer 39

Jim Crow laws

Question 40

One of the North's goals; to cut off trade along the east

Answer 40

blockade

Question 41

Union General who became Supreme Commander of Northern troops in 1864

Answer 41

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 42

President of the Confederacy

Answer 42

Jefferson Davis

Question 43

Conductor of the Underground Railroad

Answer 43

Harriet Tubman

Question 44

Commander of all Southern forces

Answer 44

Robert E. Lee

Question 45

Author of the Gettysburg address

Answer 45

Abraham Lincoln

Question 46

Bloodiest day of the war; Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 46

Antietam

Question 47

Surrender here starts the War

Answer 47

Fort Sumter

Question 48

North controls the Mississippi River with this win

Answer 48

Vicksburg

Question 49

First major battle, South won

Answer 49

Bull Run

Question 50

Lee surrendered here

Answer 50

Appomattox

Question 51

Southerner who helped Radicals during Reconstruction

Answer 51

scalawag

Question 52

Owner of the land provides everything needed to be planted; worker receives a percentage of crop

Answer 52

sharecropping

Question 53

owner rents out land, worker provides everything else

Answer 53

Tenant farming

Question 54

Northerners who came South and took advantage of conditions in the South after the war

Answer 54

Carpet baggers

Question 55

Payment required to vote

Answer 55

poll tax