Topics 5.8-5.11

Question 1

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 1

First major battle of the Civil War

Question 2

Anaconda Plan

Answer 2

Proposed by Winfield Scott, which emphasized the blockade of Southern ports and a call for an advance down the Mississippi River which would cut the South in two

Question 3

Battle of Antietam

Answer 3

The first major battle of the Civil War on Northern soil

Question 4

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 4

A battle in Tennessee that gave the Union control over the Mississippi River

Question 5

Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 5

A battle where the Union gained control over Mississippi, cutting Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas off from the Confederacy

Question 6

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 6

A battle that crippled the Confederacy so terribly, they were unable to offensively attack again

Question 7

Sherman’s March

Answer 7

A march of destruction across Georgia to deprive the Confederacy of war materials and to break the will of the Southern people by burning towns and plantations

Question 8

Trent affair

Answer 8

A Union ship stopped a British mail streamer, the Trent, and forcibly removed two Confederate diplomats bound for Europe to ask for support

Question 9

Homestead Act (1862)

Answer 9

Settlers moving into western territories could claim 160 acres of public land if they committed to farming on the land for 5 years

Question 10

Habeas corpus

Answer 10

A legal writ that forces government officials to justify their arrest and detention of an individual

Question 11

Confiscation Acts (1861)

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Allowed the federal government to seize property, including slave property, used to support the Confederate rebellion

Question 12

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Answer 12

Issued by Lincoln, it freed slaves in Confederate states

Question 13

Copperheads

Answer 13

A faction of Democrats who opposed the Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement

Question 14

13th Amendment

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Prohibited slavery and indentured servitude, except in prisons

Question 14

Civil Rights Act (1866)

Answer 14

First US federal law to define citizenship and affirmed that all citizens were equally protected under the law

Question 15

14th Amendment

Answer 15

Granted black Americans citizenship, as well as equal protection and due process of law

Question 16

15th Amendment

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Prohibited any government from denying its citizens the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

Question 17

Civil Rights Act (1875)

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Guaranteed black Americans equal treatment in public accomodations, public transportation, and jury duty

Question 18

Wade-Davis Bill

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Proposed by Radical Republicans Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis, the bill declared that Reconstruction of the South was a legislative, not an executive, matter

Question 19

Andrew Johnson

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17th president, who succeeded Lincoln and was the first president to be impeached

Question 20

Freedmen’s Bureau

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Aided newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, education, medical care, and legal support

Question 21

Tenure of Office Act (1867)

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Restricted the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the Senate’s consent

Question 22

Scalawags

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A derogatory name used by Southerns for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction

Question 23

Carpetbaggers

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Northerners who moved to the South after the war, sometimes with all their possessions in a carpetbag, during Reconstruction for supposed economic prosperity

Question 24

Blanche K. Bruce

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The first elected black American Senator to serve a full-term, representing Missouri as a Republican

Question 25

Hiram Revels

Answer 25

The first black American to serve in the Senate

Question 26

Redeemers

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Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents against the Republican programs in the South

Question 27

Compromise of 1877

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Settled the dispute of the Election of 1876 by electing Hayes and removing Republican support in the South (federal troops)

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Ku Klux Klan

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A white supremacy terrorist organization that emerged during Reconstruction

Question 29

Force Acts (1870)

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Passed by Congress in response to the Ku Klux Klan and the rise of violent white supremacy organizations

Question 30

Black codes

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Groups of restrictions placed upon black Americans by Southern state legislatures

Question 31

Sharecropping

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A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use their land, in return for a share of the crop produced

Question 32

Amnesty Act (1872)

Answer 32

Permitted former Confederate leaders to hold office again