Civil War

Question 1

Economic differences between North and South

Answer 1

North-improved economy with factory needs producing uniforms and weapons
South-shattered the economy loss of slaves, food shortage, blocked ports for food and necessities

Question 2

Missouri Compromise

Answer 2

An attempt to defuse rivalries triggered by whether states should be a slave state or not

Question 3

Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War

Question 4

Kansas-Nebraska Act/popular sovereignty

Answer 4

Popular sovereignty determined whether the two territories would be slave or free states, people would move over there just to determine and vote for their side

Question 5

election of Lincoln

Answer 5

Between Lincoln and Douglass for the senate seat
There was a series of seven debates
took their arguments directly to the people

Question 6

Antietam

Answer 6

Lee’s army crossed the Potomac into the Union State of Maryland
•Luck – A Union soldier found a copy of Lee’s army orders wrapped in a bunch of cigars!
•The plan revealed that Lee and Jackson’s armies were separated – McClellan ordered his armies toward Lee
•Bloodiest single-day battle in American history

Question 7

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 7

The Emancipation (freeing of slaves) was primarily a weapon of war, if President Lincoln could seize Confederate supplies, he could emancipate the slaves

Question 8

role of African-Americans in the war

Answer 8

• 1862 – Law is passed allowing African American soldiers to serve in the military
• African Americans made up only 1% of the North’s population but by the end of the war they made up nearly 10% of the Union army

Question 9

Gettysburg

Answer 9

Turning point of the war
•Three-day battle
South was crippled – Lee would never again be able to successfully invade the North

Question 10

Gettysburg Address

Answer 10

His address “remade America” – “Before the war, people said, ‘The United States are.’ After Lincoln’s speech, they said, ‘The United States is.”

Question 11

Appomattox

Reconstruction – Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction

Answer 11

Republicans looked to future, alarmed to realize that south would be even stronger in national politics
North was outraged
With blacks having a full vote rather than just three-fifths, gave south more of an advantage
President Johnson announced Union was restored

Question 12

sharecropping

Answer 12

Former slaves or poor farmers could work on farms or land of wealthier plantation owners in return for a share of the crop produced

Question 13

black codes

Answer 13

Prevented slaves or former slaves serving in the jury or court

Question 14

Radical Republicans

Answer 14

a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854

Question 15

13th, 14th and 15th Amendments

Answer 15

Slavery
Citizenship
Suffrage(African Americans, not women)

Question 16

Andrew Johnson

Answer 16

replacement for president for Lincoln, after his assassination, was a southerner who often went against congress and was considered to be in the wrong place at the wrong time

Question 17

“redemption”/KKK

Answer 17

Formed in south to terrorize blacks and anyone associated with them to strip them of any political party

Question 18

Dred Scott decision

Answer 18

Case that was taken into account when his rights and freedom were questioned, owner snuck him into the north so he could be free but when his owner died, case was taken to court and he was stripped of any “freedom” he should’ve had

Question 19

Battles and Events – advantages and disadvantages of Union and Confederacy

Answer 19

Union
•Union had the enormous advantages; more industrialized, better fighting power, more resources, extensive railroads
•Decisive and strong leader in Lincoln
Confederacy
•“King Cotton” – earned a good income from world markets
•First-rate generals
•Highly motivated soldiers
•Strong military tradition