Civil War - Reconstruction

Question 1

Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

Fugitive Slave law - Slave trade banned in Washington DC California is a free state

Question 2

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 2

The right to vote on the issue of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory- Led to “Bleeding Kansas”

Question 3

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 3

Voting on the issue of slavery in the territories

Question 4

Dred Scott v. Standford

Answer 4

Slaves were seen as property - Win for the South - Missouri compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional

Question 5

Election of 1860

Answer 5

Lincoln won secession of the South from the Union CIvil War

Question 6

Secession

Answer 6

Leaving the Union

Question 7

Civil War

Answer 7

War between the North and the South

Question 8

Lincolns reason for fighting the CIvil War

Answer 8

Preserve the Union

Question 9

Strategies, Advantages and Disadvantages for the North and South

Answer 9

North had the eco/industrial/population advantage, create a blockade around the South , South had the geographical advantage, better military officials, relied on GB for support

Question 10

Jefferson Davis

Answer 10

President of the COnfederacy

Question 11

General Robert E. Lee

Answer 11

Led Confederate Army

Question 12

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 12

Led the Union Army to victory

Question 13

Battles of the Civil War

Answer 13

Vicksburg - Union controlled the Missipi River
Bull Run - War should be long
Antietam - Stalemate but Lincoln was able to deliver Emancipation Proclamation

Question 14

How the Civil War was fought off of the battlefield

Answer 14

Conscription - Drafted men to fight, drafted men to fight, draft riots, people pard to avoid the war
Surrender - Lee surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse

Question 15

Expansion of Lincolns Power

Answer 15

Suspension of habeus corpus, power expands in order to win the war

Question 16

Results of the Civil War

Answer 16

Southern eco/soc/pol power decreased, North eco /soc/pol power increased, slaveryy ended, Reconstruction

Question 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 17

Freed slaves in COnfederacy but NOT in the Border States

Question 18

Gettysburg Address

Answer 18

Reminded America why we fight

Question 19

Reconstruction

Answer 19

Legislation and SUpreme Court Cases - Legislation meant to help freed slaves and SUpreme Court failed African Americans

Question 20

Lincoln and Johnsons view on Reconstruction

Answer 20

10% Plan - Swiftly bring the South back into the Union

Question 21

Radical Republicans

Answer 21

Group during the reconstruction that hated the South and wanted sever punishments towards their party

Question 22

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Answer 22

Johnson violated the Office of Tenure Act - Johnson and Radical Republicans had conflicts

Question 23

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Answer 23

Granting basic freedoms to freed slaves

Question 24

Carpetbaggers

Answer 24

Northerners who came to the South for eco/soc/pol gain

Question 25

Sharecropping

Answer 25

Meant to keep free slaves poor, had to pay through crops to use the land

Question 26

Black COdes

Answer 26

Laws passed by the South to discriminate against African Americans

Question 27

Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877

Answer 27

Republicans were given the presidency in exchange for the North withdrawing from the South which ended Reconstruction and allowed for discrimination towards African Americans by White Southern States

Question 28

Plight of the African Americans

Answer 28

Freedom, spots in the government and challenges - discrimination - White Southerners lawmakers would make laws that would make life for blacks more difficult

Question 29

Jim Crowe

Answer 29

Laws passed to legally segregate Blacks and WHites in the SOuth

Question 30

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 30

Seperate but equal - Legal racism

Question 31

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 31

Used violence to intimidate African Americans, wanted the North out of the South, wanted old way of life back, ex- Confederate soldiers