Aftermath Of The Civil War

Question 1

What does the American flag consist of and what do these features represent?

Answer 1

-13 horizontal stripes: Represents the original 13 colonies
-7 red stripes: Represents hardiness and Valor
-6 white stripes: Represents purity and innocence
-blue: Represents vigilance, perseverance and justice
-stars: represent 50 states of the Union

Question 2

Define the belief in ‘Manifest Destiny’

Answer 2

America had a moral duty and right to acquire new lands, and to impose it’s political, social and economic systems on other people.

Question 3

What are the two sub-regions of the Northeast region, what states do they contain and what were their importance?

Answer 3

•New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode island and Vermont.
-The centre of political and cultural life during the colonial period.
•Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
-Heavy industry, shipping and factories.

Question 4

What states does the South contains, what was it’s importance and what were the 10 of 11 slave-holding states that separated from the Union during the Civil war?

Answer 4

•Contains: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
-Importance: Largely agricultural region and had highest population of African Americans
-Slave-holding states: Florida, Georgia South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Question 5

What states does the Midwest contain and what was it’s importance?

Answer 5

•Contain: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota Wisconsin.
-its the ‘breadbasket’ of America, and it’s the most productive agricultural region.

Question 6

What states does the Southwest contain and what was it’s importance?

Answer 6

•Contains: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
-Significant population of Native Americans and Mexicans in this largely desert region.

Question 7

What states does the West contain and what was it’s importance?

Answer 7

•Contains: Colorado, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
-importance: Opened to settles after Civil war with the Homestead Act promising free land to anyone who could farm it and development of railways stimulated expansion.

Question 8

What two states are separated from these regions?

Answer 8

Alaska and Hawaii

Question 9

When was the Democratic party established, (and Republican) what were their beliefs and how have they changed?

Answer 9

•Democratics: 1792, conservative, believed in small government and that the states should have more power than the federal government and that slavery shouldn’t be abolished.
•Republicans: believed in the opposite.
-Republicans have become more conservative while Democratics are more progressive

Question 10

Why did the Civil War begin?

Answer 10

-The Federal government resisted introduction of slavery in new states
-Slave states united forming the Confederacy of the United States seperating from the Union in 1861 causing the war

Question 11

Who, what and when freed slaves in captured territories?

Answer 11

President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on 1 January 1863