Unit 2 Flashcards
civil war etc
What was the purpose of compromises like the Missouri Compromise?
Stop slavery from spreading
when people vote directly on the issue of slavery, it was called
popular sovereignty
the Dred Scott decision said that
Slaves were not free in free states
South Carolinas first attempt to secede was over the issue of:
tariff of “abominations”
What principle did South Carolina use to justify secession at the start of the Civil war?
State’s rights
What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
The goal of the war changed to ending slavery
the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was
The battle was a turning point in the war
President Lincoln’s reconstruction plans after the war included
Kind or lenient treatment of the South
What did the 14th Amendment accomplish?
Gave African Americans citizenship
What is the purpose of the literacy test?
Prevents African Americans from voting
The impact of the Black codes was to
Restrict freedom of former slaves
The result of tenant farming and sharecropping was
Economic servitude of former slaves
What was the result of the South’s attack on Fort Sumter?
The South won support for its cause
Whose plan for Reconstruction did Andrew Johnson support?
Abraham Lincolns plan
Who helped President Lincoln organize the first African American regime?
Frederick Douglass
Who was the abolitionist who tried to arm a slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
How did white Southerners get around the literacy test and the poll tax?
Grandfather clause
How did the Radical Republicans respond to Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
By starting the impeachment process
Union general who marched through Georgia burning everything in his path:
William Sherman
Organization set up to help former slaves adjust to being free
Freedmans Bureau
North or South: Who had more cash in the bank?
North
North or South: Strong military leadership
South
North or South: Larger population
North
North or South: Fighting a defensive war
South
North or South: More railroads
North
North or South: Strong civilian or political leadership
North
Fighting to preserve way of life
South
Greater ability to replace soldiers and supplies
NOrth
Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe arousing anti-slavery sentiment in the North:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Taking states out of the Union
Secession
Network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons flee north
Underground Railroad
California entered as a free state, rest of the territories in Mexican Cession by election
Compromise of 1850
First state to cede from the Union
South Carolina
State where the Confederate capital was established
Virginia
Site of John Browns raid that was a turning point for the South
Harper’s Ferry
Rebellion (synonym)
Insurrection
Abolished slavery
13th amendment
Rebuilding the South
Reconstruction
Laws in the South making segregation legal
Jim Crow laws
One of the North’s goals; to cut off trade along the east
blockade
Union General who became Supreme Commander of Northern troops in 1864
Ulysses S. Grant
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Commander of all Southern forces
Robert E. Lee
Author of the Gettysburg address
Abraham Lincoln
Bloodiest day of the war; Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
Surrender here starts the War
Fort Sumter
North controls the Mississippi River with this win
Vicksburg
First major battle, South won
Bull Run
Lee surrendered here
Appomattox
Southerner who helped Radicals during Reconstruction
scalawag
Owner of the land provides everything needed to be planted; worker receives a percentage of crop
sharecropping
owner rents out land, worker provides everything else
Tenant farming
Northerners who came South and took advantage of conditions in the South after the war
Carpet baggers
Payment required to vote
poll tax
