Unit 5 Vocab

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

Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 15

Stated humanity would lose progress as long as there was more land to go to

Question 16

Free Soil Party

Answer 16

Organized by anti-slavery men in the N, advocated federal aid for internal improvements

Question 17

election of 1860

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 19

slavery could be excluded from territories of US by local legislation

Question 20

“copperheads”

Answer 20

group of Democrats who opposed Civil War, wanted immediate peace settlement w the Confederates

Question 21

Battle of Antietam

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 22

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

Question 23

13th Amendment

Answer 23

freed slaves

Question 24

14th Amendment

Answer 24

all citizens get “due process of law”

Question 25

15th Amendment

Answer 25

male suffrage

Question 26

Radical Republicans

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 27

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

Question 28

10 Percent Plan

Answer 28

1863-1865, Lincoln’s reconstruction plan, once 10 percent of voters in a former Confed. state took a US loyalty oath, they could form a new state & be reunited to the Union

Question 29

Force Acts

Answer 29

1870-1871, Couldn’t prevent people from voting bc of their race

Question 30

Sharecropping

Answer 30

Tied blacks to certain plot of land

Question 31

Homestead Act

Answer 31

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 32

Pacific Railroad Act

Answer 32

1860s, allowed Transcontinental Railroad

Question 33

Compromise of 1877

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 34

1887, Tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land

Question 35

“Crime of ‘73”

Answer 35

Embraced gold standard

Question 36

Tenant Farming

Answer 36

When a person resides on land and also farms the land which is owned by a landlord in exchange for rent

Question 37

Morrill Land Act

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Siege of Vicksburg

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 40

proposed ban of slavery in new territories

Question 41

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Crittenden Compromise

Answer 42

Protected property rights below 36° 30’ plus pop sov in any new states, Lincoln rejected

Question 43

Impending Crisis

Answer 43

Written by Hinton Rowan Helper, attack on slavery as inefficient and a barrier to the economic advancement of whites

Question 44

Black Codes

Answer 44

Restricted freedman rights

Question 45

Reconstruction Acts

Answer 45

1867, laid out process for southern states to be readmitted to the Union and 14th, 15th Amendments

Question 46

Redemption

Answer 46

1870s, Southern Democratic term for end of Reconstruction

Question 47

Chief Joseph

Answer 47

Lead the Nez Perce during hostilities between tribe and the US Army in 1877

Question 48

Ghost Dance

Answer 48

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

Question 49

Wounded Knee

Answer 49

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