Unit 2 AmHis L6 - L10

Question 1

Abolistionists refrence this document

Answer 1

Deceleration of Independence

Question 2

Slave holders reference this document

Answer 2

Bill of Rights

Question 3

Bucks

Answer 3

Strong, able-bodied men.

Question 4

Fine Hands

Answer 4

Experienced male and female workers able to perform harsh labour in cotton fields.

Question 5

Fancy Girls:

Answer 5

Light-skinned women sold into prostitution.

Question 6

Breeding Wenches

Answer 6

Women sold for the exclusive use of reproducing future slaves.

Question 7

Bestselling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe fuels abolitionist support in the North!

Answer 7

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (1851)

Question 8

Missouri Compromise only applies to..

Answer 8

Land gained by the Louisiana purchase

Question 9

THE COMPROMISE OF 1850

Answer 9

California joins as a Free State.

In the future, the other former Mexican territories would decide for themselves whether to accept slavery.

Question 10

Fugitive slave act

Answer 10

Fugitive Slave Act introduced:
1. Slave-owners free to recapture runaway slaves in the north.
2. Becomes illegal to help/hide escaped slaved: harsh punishments.

Question 11

HARRIET TUBMAN

Answer 11

An escaped slave who made 19 trips south, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom!

•Not surprisingly, southerners offered rewards as high as $40,000 for her capture.

•Tubman was never caught…

Question 12

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Answer 12

•A network of safe houses or secret places for slaves running away to freedom in the northern U.S. or in Canada.

•Run by whites and freed slaves.

•These people helped runaways get from one “station” on the railroad to another, usually at night.

Question 13

LIFE OF A SLAVE

Answer 13

Considered “property” (like livestock)

• Could be beaten, maimed, or have an ear or toe chopped off.

• Women were sexually assaulted.

• Families torn apart.

• By 12 the average slave had worms, malaria, and/or rotten teeth.

• Most slaves on plantations typically labored from dawn until dusk.
➢14-hour days (as long as it was light) and longer if the moon was full.

Slave markets were common across the southern United States during the 1850s.

• Since slave marriages were not recognized, masters had no problem breaking up families.

Question 14

THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1820)

Answer 14

•1820: Missouri represents the first attempt to “regulate slavery” in the west.

•Abolitionists reject admitting Missouri to the Union as a slave state. Why?

➢In 1819: Perfect balance of 11 free states + 11 slave = 22 states.

➢Meaning: Each side had equal representation in the US Senate.
➢Neither side could pass laws that the other would reject.

Question 15

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (1854)

Answer 15

• Introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

• Essentially repeals the Missouri Compromise (1820).

• The Act: new states will decide on slavery for themselves (including those created out of the Louisiana Territory!)

• Pro- and anti-slavery forces rushed into each territory to try to stack up votes at the polls.

• Eventually the anti-slavery forces won.

Question 16

Bleeding Kansas (1854)

Answer 16

Nickname for the terror, violence and murder that occurred between both sides in the lead up to Kansas joining the Union.

Question 17

JOHN BROWN

Answer 17

•American abolitionist who favoured armed violence over pacifism in abolishing slavery in America and participated n Bleeding Kansas (1856).

Question 18

Raid at Harper’s Ferry (1859)

Answer 18

• Brown and 21 volunteers (5 African-Americans) seize federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
• Small battle with US forces (Colonel Robert E. Lee).
• Brown is arrested, convicted and executed.
• North: Brown the Martyr!
• South: Abolitionists seek to threaten our way of life!

Question 19

Three pieces of legislation attempted to settle north-south disputes over the issue of slavery democratically and peacefully:

Answer 19

• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• The Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Question 20

Old Hickory

Answer 20

Andrew Jackson

Question 21

MANIFEST DESTINY

Answer 21

•19th Century belief that the United States should expand to occupy the entire American continent.

•That this expansion was divinely ordained, justified, and inevitable.

Question 22

CALIFORNIA’S GOLD RUSH

Answer 22

1848: Gold discovered in California shortly after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.

• 1849: “The 49ers” refers to the roughly 90,000 people (mostly men) who sold all their possessions, borrowed money, mortgaged their property, and/or spent their life savings to make the journey to California to strike it rich

Question 23

Formed by Northern Whigs and other abolitionists dedicated to stopping the spread of slavery.

Answer 23

Republican party

Question 24

the confederate states of america in order

Answer 24

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Question 25

which states do not seced

Answer 25

kentucky, missouri, maryland, delaware, nevada

Question 26

THE ANACONDA PLAN

Answer 26

Union blockade of Southern ports and gain control of the Mississippi River.

• ”Squeeze the South”: starving it of resources and forcing Davis’ government to seek peace.
• The plan required time but union generals believed it was the best hope for success with the smallest number of casualties.

Question 27

OUTBREAK OF WAR (fort sumter)

Answer 27

Issue: Federal property (ie. Forts and Naval Bases) located in Seceded states?

•April 12-14th, 1861: Confederate forces lay siege to Fort Sumter (guarded the harbour in Charleston, South Carolina), capturing it after two days of fighting.

•Fort Sumter ignites the Civil War!

Question 28

BATTLE OF BULL RUN

Answer 28

•Union army attacks the capital of the CSA at Richmond, Virginia.

•Decisively defeated by the Confederate Army – Union soldiers flee to Washington

Question 29

THE SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES

Answer 29

• Lincoln appoints a new general in George McClellan after the disaster at Bull Run.

• Why McLellan?

➢ Served in Mexican-American War
➢ Instrumental in raising and training the Union army.
➢ Showed promises of being a great general.

• Urged again by Lincoln, McClellan launches a second invasion of Virginia but is defeated by Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles.

Question 30

GEORGE MCLELLAN

Answer 30

• Showed promise of being a great general. Problem…

• Hated to fight! He hung back, made excuses and dawdled.

• It got so bad that Lincoln once said, “If McClellan is not using the army, I should like to borrow it for a while.”

Question 31

BATTLE OF ANTIETEM

Answer 31

● ANTIETAM, MARYLAND
• Union scouts find a copy of Lee’s plans wrapped around a bundle of cigars.

• The plan: attack & perhaps conquer Washington, D.C., forcing the Union to seek peace.

• Union defeats Lee’s forces at Antietam.
• With almost 6,000 killed and 3x that number wounded, Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American history.

Question 32

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

Answer 32

● GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA (1863)

• Considered the turning point of the Civil War.

• Marked the climax of Lee’ military campaign to successfully invade the North.

• At Gettysburg, Lee’s army met a Union force led by General George Meade.

• With more than 160,000 soldiers involved, Gettysburg was the largest battle ever fought in North America and saw the highest casualties of the entire civil war.