period 5

Question 1

1853 land purchase from Mexico for southern railroad expansion.

Answer 1

Gadsden Purchase

Question 2

Radical abolitionist who led violent anti-slavery raids, including Harpers Ferry.

Answer 2

John Brown

Question 3

1862 law funding the transcontinental railroad.

Answer 3

Pacific Railway Act

Question 4

Expansionist president; oversaw Mexican-American War and Oregon acquisition.

Answer 4

James K. Polk

Question 5

1854 law allowing popular sovereignty to decide slavery in territories.

Answer 5

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 6

Confederate general; surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

Answer 6

Robert E. Lee

Question 7

10th president; annexed Texas and clashed with Whigs.

Answer 7

John Tyler

Question 8

Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic political party.

Answer 8

Know-Nothing Party

Question 9

Union campaign of total war through the South during the Civil War.

Answer 9

Sherman’s March

Question 10

Belief in U.S. expansion across North America.

Answer 10

Manifest Destiny

Question 11

Pro-slavery Kansas constitution rejected by Congress.

Answer 11

Lecompton Constitution

Question 12

Union general; 18th president during Reconstruction.

Answer 12

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 13

Land gained by the U.S. after the Mexican-American War.

Answer 13

Mexican Cession

Question 14

1858 debates on slavery and sectionalism between Senate candidates.

Answer 14

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Question 15

Civil War siege that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

Answer 15

Vicksburg

Question 16

1846–1848 war over Texas and territorial expansion.

Answer 16

Mexican-American War

Question 17

Idea that territories vote to decide slavery.

Answer 17

Popular Sovereignty

Question 18

Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.

Answer 18

14th Amendment

Question 19

Land divided between U.S. and Britain in 1846.

Answer 19

Oregon Territory

Question 20

Anti slavery party formed in 1854.

Answer 20

Republican Party

Question 21

Granted Black men the right to vote.

Answer 21

15th Amendment

Question 22

U.S. attempt to buy Cuba from Spain, angering abolitionists.

Answer 22

Ostend Manifesto

Question 23

Violent Senate attack over slavery tensions.

Answer 23

Sumner-Brooks Incident

Question 24

Southern laws limiting African American rights post-Civil War.

Answer 24

Black Codes

Question 25

Inventor of the telegraph and Morse code.

Answer 25

Samuel Morse

Question 26

Abolished slavery in the U.S.

Answer 26

13th Amendment

Question 27

Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction.

Answer 27

Carpetbaggers

Question 28

Ended Mexican-American War; ceded vast land to the U.S

Answer 28

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 29

Union strategy to blockade the South and control the Mississippi.

Answer 29

Anaconda Plan

Question 30

Abolitionist senator beaten in Congress.

Answer 30

Charles Sumner

Question 31

Resolved U.S.-Canada border disputes in 1842.

Answer 31

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Question 32

Site of Confederate surrender in 1865.

Answer 32

Appomattox Court House

Question 33

Ended Reconstruction; withdrew federal troops from the South.

Answer 33

Compromise of 1877

Question 34

Proposed ban on slavery in Mexican Cession lands.

Answer 34

Wilmot Proviso

Question 35

Southern states that seceded during the Civil War

Answer 35

Confederate States of America

Question 36

Radical Republican-led effort to reform the South post-war.

Answer 36

Congressional Reconstruction

Question 37

War hero and 12th president; died in office.

Answer 37

Zachary Taylor

Question 38

Allowed Union to seize Confederate property, including slaves.

Answer 38

Confiscation Acts

Question 39

Laws to combat the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

Answer 39

Force Acts

Question 40

Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas territory.

Answer 40

Bleeding Kansas

Question 41

Violent protests against Civil War drafts, particularly in New York City.

Answer 41

Draft Riots

Question 42

Agency to assist freed slaves with education and resources.

Answer 42

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 43

Resolved sectional disputes; included stricter Fugitive Slave Law.

Answer 43

Compromise of 1850

Question 44

Lincoln’s re-election during the Civil War.

Answer 44

Election of 1864

Question 45

First Black U.S. senator.

Answer 45

Hiram Revels

Question 46

Failed attempt to avoid Civil War by protecting slavery

Answer 46

Crittenden Compromise

Question 47

Lincoln’s 1863 order freeing slaves in Confederate states.

Answer 47

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 48

White supremacist group opposing Reconstruction.

Answer 48

Ku Klux Klan

Question 49

Supreme Court case denying Black citizenship and rights

Answer 49

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 50

Union general criticized for cautious tactics.

Answer 50

George McClellan

Question 51

Economic depression during Reconstruction.

Answer 51

Panic of 1873

Question 52

Lincoln’s victory, sparking Southern secession.

Answer 52

Election of 1860

Question 53

Turning point Civil War battle; Union victory.

Answer 53

Gettysburg

Question 54

Lenient post-war plans under Johnson and Lincoln.

Answer 54

Presidential Reconstruction

Question 55

Opposed slavery’s expansion into new territories.

Answer 55

Free Soil Party

Question 56

Legal protection against unlawful imprisonment, suspended by Lincoln.

Answer 56

Habeas corpus

Question 57

Advocated for strict Reconstruction policies.

Answer 57

Radical Republicans

Question 58

Stephen Douglas’s stance on popular sovereignty over slavery.

Answer 58

Freeport Doctrine

Question 59

1862 law granting land to settlers in the West.

Answer 59

Homestead Act

Question 60

19th president; ended Reconstruction.

Answer 60

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 61

Required the return of escaped slaves to their owners.

Answer 61

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 62

President of the Confederacy.

Answer 62

Jefferson Davis

Question 63

Democrat who lost the contested 1876 election.

Answer 63

Samuel J. Tilden

Question 64

John Brown’s failed attempt to start a slave rebellion.

Answer 64

Harpers Ferry

Question 65

Assassinated President Lincoln

Answer 65

John Wilkes Booth

Question 66

Southern whites who supported Reconstruction

Answer 66

Scalawags

Question 67

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Answer 67

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 68

All-Black Civil War unit.

Answer 68

Massachusetts 54th Regiment

Question 69

Farming system trapping freedmen in debt

Answer 69

Sharecropping

Question 70

Senator known as the “Great Compromiser”

Answer 70

Henry Clay

Question 71

Civil War naval battle of ironclad ships.

Answer 71

Monitor v. Merrimac

Question 72

Law restricting presidential power; led to Johnson’s impeachment.

Answer 72

Tenure of Office Act

Question 73

15th president; failed to address secession

Answer 73

James Buchanan

Question 74

1862 law funding agricultural colleges

Answer 74

Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 75

Radical Reconstruction plan vetoed by Lincoln

Answer 75

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 76

Radical Reconstruction plan vetoed by Lincoln

Answer 76

Wade-Davis Bill