History - Civil War Test Flashcards
(27 cards)
What was the first state to leave the Union and start the Confederacy.
South Carolina
Where did the Lincoln debates take place?
Illinois
The first shots of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter off the coast of the state of _____.
South Carolina
What state joined the U.S. as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
Where was John Brown captured?
Harper’s Ferry
What city was Ford’s Theater in?
Washington DC
Lincoln’s plan of forgiveness called for _____% of eligible voters to take a loyalty oath after the Civil War.
10
Approximately how many people died during the Civil War?
600,000
What was the name for slaves who were seen as murderous and blood thirsty?
Nat
What was John Wilkes Booth’s profession.
actor
What state was Andrew Jackson from?
Tennessee
What territory became violent as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Kansas
The focus of the nation turned _____ after 1877.
West
What state was denied admission for several years because abolitionists were concerned that several slave states would be created?
Texas
What group was put into place after the Civil War and helped former slaves and war refugees with food, medicine and education?
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Military Reconstruction Act divided the South into how many military districts after the Civil War?
Five
A _____ was a Northern Republican who moved to the South during Reconstruction to profit from unstable financial and political conditions.
carpetbagger
Where did most former slaves find jobs in the South after the Civil War?
farms
Who was a radical democrat?
Thaddeus Stevens
When did the Civil War officially end?
April 9, 1865
What court decision stated that “separate but equal” facilities was constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
How many other government officials were killed on the same night as Lincoln?
None
What state was admitted as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?
California
What made provisions for free states to be eventually added when these territories had enough people for statehood.
The Northwest Ordinance
