American Revolution/ Reconstruction

Question 1

.Proclomation

Answer 1

law banning all settlement west of the Appalacian Mtns (kept colonists from migrating)

Question 2

salutary neglect

Answer 2

when a country ignores its colonies

Question 3

shays rebellion

Answer 3

uprising in Massachusetts by farmers against the state

Question 4

abolitionists

Answer 4

people who wanted to abolish slavery

Question 5

missouri compromise

Answer 5

Missouri became slave, Maine as free

Question 6

Sam Houston

Answer 6

politician for texas

Question 7

Steven Austin

Answer 7

bought land, allowed for others to settle

Question 8

Texas declaration

Answer 8

defeated mexican army, remember the alamo

Question 9

Mexican war

Answer 9

wanted territory at rio grande river, mexico disagreed. Went to war and Us won

Question 10

Santa Ana

Answer 10

Mexican leader during texas independence

Question 11

treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

Answer 11

US got border at Rio Grande, US got Cali and new mexico, US payed Mexico

Question 12

results of Mexican war

Answer 12

cost lots of money and lives, new territories which caused issues with slavery

Question 13

compromise of 1850

Answer 13

slave trade abolished in DC

Question 14

dred scott decision

Answer 14

states can’t deny right to “property” anywhere

Question 15

kansas- nebraska act

Answer 15

people can vote if territories are slave or free

Question 16

Bleeding kansas

Answer 16

border ruffians (pro slavery) invaded kansas to stuff ballots- kansas becomes free

Question 17

Anaconda plan

Answer 17

blockade southern states, control the mississippi, take richmond

Question 18

emancipation proclomation

Answer 18

only freed slaves in the rebellious states

Question 19

54th massachusstes

Answer 19

first black regiment for the north

Question 20

William Sherman

Answer 20

one of the leaders to the north- total war

Question 21

Abraham Lincoln’s involvement in civil war

Answer 21

president, leader of north

Question 22

Robert E Lee

Answer 22

Leader for South

Question 23

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 23

One of the leaders for the North

Question 24

Sherman’s march to the sea

Answer 24

Led by sherman, burnt down everything in his way to the sea in the south

Question 25

Lincolns 10% plan

Answer 25

a state can reenter if 10% of population took an oath of allegience

Question 26

13th amendment

Answer 26

freed slaves

Question 27

14th amendment

Answer 27

citizenship for blacks

Question 28

15th amendment

Answer 28

right to vote for blacks

Question 29

Reconstruction act of 1867

Answer 29

divided confederacy into 5 military districts