Civil War

Question 1

Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

The US addressing the issue of slavery in the new western territories, but this did not solve the issue.

Question 2

Cotton gin

Answer 2

Invention in the 1800s that mad slavery invaluable

Question 3

Kansas-Nebraska Act-

Answer 3

Overturned compromise of 1850(get OVERTURNED) and allowed slavery in new territories in the west.

Question 4

Emancipation Proclamation-

Answer 4

Address by Abraham in 1863 that made enslaved people free(Yay).

Question 5

Fugitive Slave Act-

Answer 5

Made it law to return escaped enslaved people to their owners if found in free states.

Question 6

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 6

Supreme court decision that stripped all rights from enslaved people(very dreading)

Question 7

Juneteenth-

Answer 7

The day news of freedom reached enslaved people in Texas 2 years after Emancipation Proclamation

Question 8

Lincoln’s assassination-

Answer 8

Will dramatically change the Reconstruction Era because new vice president policies were different from before.

Question 9

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 9

Place where Robert surrendered to Ulysses

Question 10

Union location

Answer 10

North

Question 11

Confederate location

Answer 11

South

Question 12

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 12

Union president

Question 13

Jefferson Davis

Answer 13

Confederate president.

Question 14

Robert E. Lee-

Answer 14

Confederate general

Question 15

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 15

Union general

Question 16

Magruder

Answer 16

Texas commander who led the infantry in battles in the Eastern U.S.

Question 17

John Bell Hood

Answer 17

Commander of the Confederate forces in Texas

Question 18

John Wilkes Booth-

Answer 18

Assassin of Abraham Lincoln

Question 19

Fort Sumter

Answer 19

Union garrison where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.

Question 20

Second Battle of Galveston

Answer 20

The battle that reclaimed(get reclaimed!!!!!!)the port of Galveston for the South (confederacy)

Question 21

Battle of Gettysburg-

Answer 21

Deadly battle(get killed) that stopped the Confederate soldiers from invading North; turning point of the war(climax)

Question 22

Battle of Sabine Pass

Answer 22

Delayed the Union invasion of Texas(union passed slow)

Question 23

Palmito Ranch-

Answer 23

Battle that the Confederacy quote on quote “won,” but happened when the civil war was over lol

Question 24

Vicksburg-

Answer 24

Two month siege that gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union and split the Confederacy in two(daaaang)

Question 25

Battle of Galveston Harbor-

Answer 25

Blockade by the Union that forced the Confederacy to evacuate in 1862 (cya later)

Question 26

Why did Texas secede from the Union?

Answer 26

Texas wanted to keep their slaves. They also did not want to pay high tariffs.

Question 27

What was the result of the election of 1860?

Answer 27

6 states said CYA LATER to the Union.

Question 28

Why was Galveston important for the North and South to control?

Answer 28

Galveston was a main Confederate port city.

Question 29

How did southerners adapt to food shortages during the war?

Answer 29

Southerners were encouraged to plant crops to grow food for soldiers.

Question 30

The cotton gin, land openings along the mississippi river, and growing demand for inexpensive labor led to-

Answer 30

The expansion of slavery in new territories

Question 31

What was the effect of Uncle Toms Cabin?

Answer 31

Northerners realized how bad slavery was, and southerners worked hard to defend slavery(the truth always comes out in the end)

Question 32

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation not successful?

Answer 32

People in Texas did not receive the news

It was a law issued by the Union to take effect in Confederate States

It was not enforced (L)