Unit 5 Significant Slideshow Items

Question 1

Cannibals All

Answer 1

Written by George Fitzhugh, made “wage slavery” argument

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 3

The _____________ reaped the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 3

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 4

“Bleeding Kansas”

Answer 4

series of violent political confrontations

Question 5

Preston Brooks (SC) nearly beat _____ to death.

Answer 5

Charles Sumner

Question 6

SC succeeded four days after…

Answer 6

the election of 1860

Question 7

Who was the president of the CSA?

Answer 7

Jefferson Davis

Question 8

What fort did rebels attack in 1861?

Answer 8

Fort Sumter (Charleston, SC)

Question 9

Lincoln believed in fight to…

Answer 9

preserve the union

Question 10

Clara Barton

Answer 10

founded Red Cross

Question 11

Anaconda Plan

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Battle of First Bull Run

Answer 12

VA, first major land battle

Question 13

How many people died in the Civil War?

Answer 13

620,000

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Who shot Lincoln?

Answer 15

John Wilkes Booth

Question 16

Why was Johnson impeached?

Answer 16

Violating Tenure of Office Act

Question 17

Carpetbaggers

Answer 17

northerners who moved south

Question 18

Scalawags

Answer 18

Southern Republicans

Question 19

What was the first characteristic of Radical Reconstruction?

Answer 19

Occupation of south by federal troops

Question 20

Exodusters

Answer 20

farmers, believed west held “promised land”

Question 21

“40 acres and a mule”

Answer 21

Awaited by people but they never got anything

Question 22

Oklahoma Land Rush

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Chines working for Central Pacific RR Co. faced…

Answer 23

intense discrimination

Question 24

Both met at ______ when building the Transcontinental Road.

Answer 24

Promontory Point, UT

Question 25

Plains Indians were mostly…

Answer 25

nomadic (traveling) horsemen

Question 26

Battle of Little Big Horn

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Joseph Gidden

Answer 27

patented modern form of barbed wire in 1874

Question 28

John Deere

Answer 28

invented steel plow

Question 29

Cyrus McCormick

Answer 29

invented mechanical reaper