Unit 5 Significant Slideshow Items Flashcards

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1
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Cannibals All

A

Written by George Fitzhugh, made “wage slavery” argument

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What inspired H.B. Stowe to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Fugitive Slave Act

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3
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The _____________ reaped the Missouri Compromise.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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4
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“Bleeding Kansas”

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series of violent political confrontations

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5
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Preston Brooks (SC) nearly beat _____ to death.

A

Charles Sumner

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6
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SC succeeded four days after…

A

the election of 1860

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Who was the president of the CSA?

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Jefferson Davis

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8
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What fort did rebels attack in 1861?

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Fort Sumter (Charleston, SC)

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9
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Lincoln believed in fight to…

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preserve the union

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10
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Clara Barton

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founded Red Cross

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11
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Anaconda Plan

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North-blockade southern ports, divide South at Miss. River

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12
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Battle of First Bull Run

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VA, first major land battle

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13
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How many people died in the Civil War?

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620,000

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What were the three major issues when attempting to reunite the union?

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readmission of states, status of freedman, and treatment of former rebels

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15
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Who shot Lincoln?

A

John Wilkes Booth

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16
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Why was Johnson impeached?

A

Violating Tenure of Office Act

17
Q

Carpetbaggers

A

northerners who moved south

18
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Scalawags

A

Southern Republicans

19
Q

What was the first characteristic of Radical Reconstruction?

A

Occupation of south by federal troops

20
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Exodusters

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farmers, believed west held “promised land”

21
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“40 acres and a mule”

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Awaited by people but they never got anything

22
Q

Oklahoma Land Rush

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1889, old Indian territory was opened at noon to thousands settlers

23
Q

Chines working for Central Pacific RR Co. faced…

A

intense discrimination

24
Q

Both met at ______ when building the Transcontinental Road.

A

Promontory Point, UT

25
Q

Plains Indians were mostly…

A

nomadic (traveling) horsemen

26
Q

Battle of Little Big Horn

A

“Custer’s Last Stand” which turned public opinion against Sioux

27
Q

Joseph Gidden

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patented modern form of barbed wire in 1874

28
Q

John Deere

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invented steel plow

29
Q

Cyrus McCormick

A

invented mechanical reaper