Unit 5 - Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

Populism

Answer 1

Political stances that emphasize the idea of “the people”, associated with anti-establishment and anti-political ideas.

Question 2

Homestead Act

Answer 2

Allowed anyone over 21 years of age or the head of a household to apply for free federal land

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

Outlawed slavery

Question 4

14th Amendment

Answer 4

Granted citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the United States.

Question 5

15th Amendment

Answer 5

Granted citizens the right to vote regardless of race

Question 6

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 6

Freed slaves, declared all persons held as slaves shall be free.

Question 7

Dawes Act

Answer 7

Authorized the president to confiscate and redistribute tribal lands in the American West.

Question 8

Clara Barton

Answer 8

The first female war nurse, worked on the battlefield.

Question 9

Plains Indians

Answer 9

Member of Native American tribe that formerly inhabited the Great Plains of the U.S.

Question 10

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 10

The turning point of the Civil War. The battle of Gettysburg crippled the South so they didn’t have sufficient forces to invade a Northern state

Question 11

Anaconda Plan

Answer 11

The Union’s strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War: Form a blockade and cut the forces in half

Question 12

Reconstruction

Answer 12

Program implemented by the government to repair damage caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to the Union.

Question 13

President Andrew Johnson

Answer 13

17th President of the United States, as vice president when Lincoln was killed, he became president. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote.

Question 14

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 14

Sixteenth president of the United States, he spoke out about not letting slavery spread west. His main goal during the Civil War was to preserve the Union at all cost.

Question 15

Sharecropping

Answer 15

System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter’s land in return for a share of the crop.

Question 16

Robert E. Lee

Answer 16

A Confederate general during the American Civil War who was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army

Question 17

Appomattox Court House

Answer 17

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in 1865.

Question 18

Battle of Wounded Knee

Answer 18

The slaughter of hundreds of Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek.

Question 19

Carpetbagger/scalawag

Answer 19

Negative term for a northern Republican who moved to the South after the Civil War to help “rebuild”. Usually only to profit off of Southern misery.

Question 20

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 20

Law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens - led to the 14th Amendment.

Question 21

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 21

A politician and lawyer who was in the House of Representatives, being one of the leaders of the Radical Republican in the Republican Party.

Question 22

Bimetallism

Answer 22

Currency which consists of two types of money: gold and silver

Question 23

Morrill Act

Answer 23

Law in which the federal government distributed acres of western lands to the state governments in order to fund agricultural colleges.

Question 24

“Ironclads”

Answer 24

A steam propelled boat built to destroy wooden boats in battle.

Question 25

Radical Republicans

Answer 25

Lincoln’s opponents - favored a harsher proposal for readmitting the Confederate states.

Question 26

Reservations

Answer 26

Small parcels of land on which Indian people were supposed to live

Question 27

Andersonville

Answer 27

The Confederate militray prison, at Andersonville, Georgia, held thousands of union soldiers

Question 28

Conscription

Answer 28

The draft

Question 29

US Grant

Answer 29

Union general who received the nickname “Lincoln’s Butcher” because he had no mercy and got the job done.

Question 30

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 30

A politician in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party’s nominee for President of the United States, but never won

Question 31

Cowboys myth vs. reality

Answer 31

The myths said cowboys rode the open range, herding cattle and fighting villains. In reality they drove long hours for cattle, herding cattle, and long work hours.

Question 31

George A. Custer

Answer 31

Union officer in the Civil War and the commander in wars against Native Americans over control of the Great Plains, caused most of his army to die in the battle of Little Bighorn.

Question 32

Ghost Dance

Answer 32

A Native American dance which they believed would bring peice to them and end westward expansion

Question 33

Sitting Bull

Answer 33

Native American chief who united the Sioux tribes of the American Great Plains against the white settlers taking their tribal land

Question 34

Fort Pillow

Answer 34

Confederate troops killed over 200 African-American prisoners.

Question 35

William T. Sherman

Answer 35

He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. His troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. His “march to the sea.” His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march shifted to targeting civilians.

Question 36

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 36

Set up by congress to help freed slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, job training.

Question 37

Compromise of 1877/end of Reconstruction

Answer 37

A deal which caused the United States federal government to pull the last troops out of the South, in return president Hayes would go into office

Question 38

Railroads opening the West to settlement

Answer 38

Railroads provided new economic opportunities, stimulated the development of town and communities, and generally tied the country together