US History Unit 1

Question 1

Explain the significance of the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 1

The Missouri compromise is trying to keep the balance of free and slave states

Question 2

Identify the issues that led to increasing sectional differences between the North and South.

Answer 2

The issues were over slavery, the states rights, and the economic system

Question 3

Identify the political differences that led to “Bleeding Kansas”.

Answer 3

The conflict of if Kansas was gonna be a slave or free sate

Question 4

Explain how the publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” increased the tensions between Northerners and Southerners.

Answer 4

Because the book which turned movie/play was explaining the brutalities of slavery

Question 5

What happened at Harpers Ferry in in the fall of 1859?

Answer 5

John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry because he was hoping to start a slave rebellion

Question 6

Who were Abolitionists and what were their beliefs?

Answer 6

They wanted to end Slavery in the United States

Question 7

Identify the elements of the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 7

It includes the fugitive slave act

Question 8

What was the Underground Railroad? Who was it’s most famous conductor?

Answer 8

The Underground Railroad helped slaved people escape to go to north led by Harriet Tubman

Question 8

Describe the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Answer 8

The return of slaves who have escaped back to their owners even if they are in free slaves

Question 9

Explain how the Dred Scott decision influenced sectional differences between the North and South.

Answer 9

It said African Americans could not become citizens and made tensions stronger

Question 10

Describe the strengths and weaknesses for both the North and the South prior to the start of the Civil War

Answer 10

The north had more advantages but the south had a strong military and cotton economy

Question 11

Explain what happened at Fort Sumter.

Answer 11

The confederate attack in 1861 started the civil war

Question 11

Identify the key battles which provided the turning point for the Civil War

Answer 11

The civil war started in 1861 with the attack n fort Sumter

Question 12

Who were the KKK and what did they try and accomplish?

Answer 12

The KKK wanted to take away African American rights and wanted to harm them during the reconstruction

Question 12

Explain why a plan for reconstruction of the South was needed after the Civil War?

Answer 12

Reconstruction was needed to rebuild the south after the civil war

Question 12

What were the goals of Abraham Lincoln for Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War?

Answer 12

His goals were to reunite both sides of the nation and protect the freed slaves rights

Question 13

What was the Freedman’s Bureau and what did they hope to accomplish during Reconstruction?

Answer 13

The freedman’s bureau helped freed slaves with getting an education jobs and supporting them

Question 13

How did the Republican Party gain strength in the Southern States during Reconstruction?

Answer 13

They of ed streAme in the south by supporting the voting

Question 14

Explain why the Enforcement Acts were passed.

Answer 14

They were passed to protect African American voting rights during reconstruction

Question 15

Explain the tactics used by some Southerners to restrict the rights of African Americans.

Answer 15

They used poll taxes and violence to try and hold back black voting rights

Question 15

Describe sharecropping system and how this system was inherently unfair.

Answer 15

It’s a unfair labor system that kept freed slaves in poverty where someone gets half of their crops that they didn’t even work on

Question 15

Know the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

Answer 15

They abolished slavery and protected their rights

Question 16

What were the goals of the Freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 16

Give aid to newly freed slaves limited what rights the freed slaves had

Question 17

Provide some examples of black codes and explain their purpose.

Answer 17

Limited what rights the freed slaves had

Question 18

Who were carpetbaggers and scalawags?

Answer 18

Carpetbaggers-north
Scalawags- south

Question 19

What is sharecropping?

Answer 19

Freed slaves could rent some land but couldn’t keep it

Question 20

What were the Enforcement Acts?

Answer 20

Acts protected the African Americans voting during reconstruction

Question 21

What happened in the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 21

Ended reconstruction in the south

Question 22

Define the Military Reconstruction Act

Answer 22

Divided the south into a lot of districts for the military

Question 23

Describe the Wade-Davis Bill.

Answer 23

Republicans with a reconstruction plan

Question 24

Explain how African Americans were free and not free during Reconstruction.

Answer 24

Free but still had restrictions during the reconstruction