Chapter 15

Question 1

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

Decree announced by President Abraham Lincoln in September 1862 and formerly issued on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in all Confederate states still in rebellion.

Question 2

First Confiscation Act

Answer 2

Law passed by Congress in August 1861, it liberated only those slaves who had directly assisted the Confederate war effort or whose masters were openly disloyal to the Union.

Question 3

Second Confiscation Act

Answer 3

Law passed by Congress in July 1862 giving Union commanders the right to seize slave property as their armies marched through Confederate territory.

Question 4

Copperheads

Answer 4

A term used by Republicans applied to northern war dissenters and those suspected of aiding the Confederate cause during the Civil War.

Question 5

Radical Republicans

Answer 5

A shifting group of Republican congressmen, usually a substantial minority, who favored the abolition of slavery from the beginning of the Civil War and later advocated harsh treatment of the defeated South.

Question 6

Homestead Act

Answer 6

Law passed by Congress in 1862 providing 160 acres of land free to anyone who would live on the plot and farm it for 5 years.

Question 7

Land Grant College Act

Answer 7

Law passed by Congress in July 1862 awarding proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states for the establishment of agricultural and mechanical (later engineering) colleges; also known as the Morrill Act, after its sponsor, Congressman Justin Morrill of Vermont.

Question 8

New York Draft Riot

Answer 8

A mostly Irish-immigrant protest against the conscription in New York City in July 1863 that escalated into class and racial warfare that had to be quelled by Federal troops.

Question 9

13th amendment

Answer 9

Constitutional amendment ratified in 1865 that freed all slaves throughout the US.