Unit 9: Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

Compromise

Answer 1

An agreement reached by the changing of opposing claims.

Question 2

Union

Answer 2

The name of the northern government supported by the free states.

Question 3

Confederacy

Answer 3

The name of the southern government supported by the slave states.

Question 4

Federal Power

Answer 4

Power surrendered by the individual and state to a central authority.

Question 5

States Rights

Answer 5

Rights given to states directly or indirectly by the Constitution.

Question 6

Abolitionism

Answer 6

The principles behind ending slavery.

Question 7

Sectionalism

Answer 7

Loyalty to the interests of ones own region of the country.

Question 8

Colonial Slavery

Answer 8

Slaves first brought to the colonies in Jamestown by Dutch traders.

Question 9

“All men are created equal”

Answer 9

Phrase in the Declaration of Independence that contradicts slavery.

Question 10

3/5th Compromise

Answer 10

An agreement between the Northern and Southern states to count slaves as 3/5ths of a person for population counts.

Question 11

Missouri Compromise

Answer 11

An agreement between Northern and Southern states where Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except in Missouri.

Question 12

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 12

A series of violent political confrontations between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups in Kansas over whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.

Question 13

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 13

An act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing territories to choose whether they would have slaves or not.

Question 14

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 14

Part of the Compromise of 1850 that declared that all slaves, upon capture, were to be returned to their masters, even if in free states.

Question 15

Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 15

An assault by John Brown on a federal armory to provide weapons to slaves. 11 people were killed and it sparked public debate over the slave issue.

Question 16

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Answer 16

Debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over the Illinois senate seat that brought the slave debate to higher levels and launched Lincoln towards the Presidency, even though he lost the senate seat.

Question 17

Election of 1860

Answer 17

The South threatened to secede if Abraham Lincoln won the election, because the South were afraid he would ban slavery. Lincoln was elected and seven states seceded, followed by more.

Question 18

Dred Scott

Answer 18

A court case that ruled that no black, free or slave, could have rights of a citizen. It further angered abolitionists.

Question 19

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 19

16th president of the United States that supported abolitionism and led the Union through the Civil War.

Question 20

13th Amendment

Answer 20

bans slavery throughout the US

Question 21

14th Amendment

Answer 21

Gives citizenship to all persons born in the US and guarantees equal protection of the laws

Question 22

15th Amendment

Answer 22

Forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of their race

Question 23

popular sovereignty

Answer 23

term that means people have the right to create, alter, or abolish their government

Question 24

secede

Answer 24

to leave

Question 25

Reconstruction

Answer 25

the process of rebuilding the United States after the Civil War