Unit 5 Vocab (1850s-1890s)

Question 1

Dred Scott decision

Answer 1

Ruled African Americans could not be citizens

Question 2

Popular sovereignty

Answer 2

Power to the people

Question 3

John Brown

Answer 3

Attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing armories

Question 4

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Answer 4

Debates between Douglas and Lincoln. Made Lincoln famous. Topics: how to deal w/ slavery, where it should be allowed, etc.

Question 5

Sherman’s March

Answer 5

Let force from TN to SC to destroy everything the Confederates could use to survive

Question 6

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 6

Plans of Johnson and Lincoln who believed it was the executive’s power to rebuild the south

Question 7

Radical Reconstruction

Answer 7

Period beginning in 1867 when Republicans took charge of reconstruction

Question 8

Compromise of 1850

Answer 8

• Fugitive Slave Act- banned slave trade in DC- Cali=free- Split Texas territory- Pop sovereignty in Mexican Cession

Question 9

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 9

pop sovereignty in Kansas/Nebraska

Question 10

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 10

Harriet Beecher Stowe, influenced England’s view of the south and slavery

Question 11

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 11

Set up to help former slaves adjust to freedom

Question 12

Crop lien system

Answer 12

Helped farmers get credit before planting season by borrowing against value for future harvest

Question 13

“waving the bloody shirt”

Answer 13

use of Civil War imagery by candidates and parties to draw votes to their side

Question 14

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 14

Author of “A Century of Dishonor,” exposed the us gov and their broken promises to Native Americans

Question 15

election of 1860

Answer 15

Lincoln (R) won because the Democratic party was split over slavery

Question 16

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 16

Stated slavery would end BUT didn’t free many because land was under confederate control

Question 17

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 17

slavery could be excluded from territories of US by local legislation

Question 18

Battle of Antietam

Answer 18

1862, Bloodiest battle of the Civil War (25k casualties) = north succeeded in halting Lee’s confederate forces in MD

Question 19

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 19

Turning point, made it clear the North would win. 50,000 casualties

Question 20

13th Amendment

Answer 20

freed slaves

Question 21

14th Amendment

Answer 21

all citizens get “due process of law”

Question 22

15th Amendment

Answer 22

male suffrage

Question 23

Radical Republicans

Answer 23

-democratize the south-establish public education-rights of free people-free blacks/black suffrage

Question 24

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 24

blacks are now US citizens and gave gov power to intervene in state affairs to protect citizen rights

Question 25

Sharecropping

Answer 25

Tied blacks to certain plot of land

Question 26

Homestead Act

Answer 26

1862, Allowed settlers to acquire as much as 160 acres of land for living on it for five years, improving it and paying a fee of $30

Question 27

Pacific Railroad Act

Answer 27

1860s, allowed Transcontinental Railroad

Question 28

Compromise of 1877

Answer 28

Deal that settled 1876 US presidential election, pulled federal troops out of the south, ended reconstruction era. Hayes won over Tilden.

Question 29

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 29

1887, Tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land

Question 30

Morrill Land Act

Answer 30

Gave states land grants to build agricultural and mechanical colleges in the west

Question 31

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 31

1864, Required 50% of voters of a state to take loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union

Question 32

Siege of Vicksburg

Answer 32

1863, final major military action in Vicksburg campaign and last major confederate stronghold on Miss. River

Question 33

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 33

proposed ban of slavery in new territories

Question 34

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 34

pro-slavery constitution written for Kansas’ admission to the Union and was rejected but Kansas became free in 1861

Question 35

Black Codes

Answer 35

Restricted freedman rights

Question 36

Ghost Dance

Answer 36

Ritual dance by Plain Indians to hasten the end of the war

Question 37

Wounded Knee

Answer 37

Last battle of Indian Wars, signaled end of armed resistance by Native Americans