Section 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 Test (Chapter 1)

Question 1

Abolitionist

Answer 1

mf who wants to get rid of slavs

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

Allowed California to enter as a free state, divided mexican land, ended slave trade in D.C., included fugitive slave act, and settled a border dispute between New Mexico and Texas

Question 3

dred scott vs standford

Answer 3

Said that slaves were not US Citizens (brought into question federal power on slavery)

Question 4

fugitive slave act

Answer 4

white guys could go to the north and kidnap blacks because they wanted slaves

Question 5

Missouri Compromise

Answer 5

Plan propsed by Henry Clay, made Missouri a slave state

Question 6

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 6

People can vote on slavery

Question 7

Secede

Answer 7

To leave the Union

Question 8

Underground Railroad

Answer 8

Operation to free slaves

Question 9

Border States

Answer 9

any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.

Question 10

martial law

Answer 10

law administered by military

Question 11

Who won the election of 1860 (16th President)

Answer 11

Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

Who was the first state to secede (and what year)

Answer 12

South Carolina (1860)

Question 13

Who was the president of the Confederacy

Answer 13

Jefferson Davis

Question 14

When did the civil war start

Answer 14

April 12, 1861

Question 15

What were the strengths of the South

Answer 15

Defensive War, knew countryside, civilians helped guide soliders, used woods for cover

Question 16

What were the Weaknesses of the South

Answer 16

Economy, Railroads (only few), states rights, small population

Question 17

What were the North’s strengths

Answer 17

More population, Industry power, sea power

Question 18

What were the North’s Weaknesses

Answer 18

Offensive War

Question 19

Who did Lincoln ask to be leader of the Union army

Answer 19

Robert E. Lee

Question 20

Who’s side did Robert E. Lee fight for

Answer 20

South (Confeds)

Question 21

When did the Battle of Bull Run happen

Answer 21

1861

Question 22

Who won the Battle of Bull Run

Answer 22

South (Confederacy)

Question 23

Who was appointed to be Union army commander for the east

Answer 23

George McClellan

Question 24

When was the Battle of Fredericksburg

Answer 24

1862

Question 25

Who won The Battle of Fredericksburg

Answer 25

South (Condeferates)

Question 26

Who did Lincoln replace McClellan with in the Army of Potomac

Answer 26

Ambrose Burnside

Question 27

When was the Battle of Chancellorsville

Answer 27

1863

Question 28

What happened to Stonewall Jackson

Answer 28

Got mistaken for a union solider in the Battle of Chancellorsville and got killed (L)

Question 29

When was the Battle of Shiloh

Answer 29

1862

Question 30

Who won the Battle of Shiloh

Answer 30

The Union (North)

Question 31

Who was the General of the Union in the West

Answer 31

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 32

What is an Ironclad

Answer 32

An iron battle ship

Question 33

What were the 2 ironclads

Answer 33

Virginia (Confed) and Monitor (Union)

Question 34

What was the first fort to be attacked

Answer 34

Fort Sumter

Question 35

Who attacked Fort Sumter

Answer 35

Confeds

Question 36

What is the emancipation proclamation

Answer 36

A presidential proclamation that said that all slaves will be free

Question 37

What was the reason for the civil war

Answer 37

to preserve the union and stop the succession of the Confederacy

Question 38

Could Africans fight in the war

Answer 38

yes by 1863

Question 39

When did Africans get equal pay

Answer 39

1864

Question 40

How many slaves fought for the union

Answer 40

200k

Question 41

Why was army life difficult

Answer 41

death, draft, young aged soldiers, and illness

Question 42

How did the war affect the northern economy

Answer 42

they industrialized

Question 43

How did the war affect the southern economy

Answer 43

they faced problems because of free runaway slaves

Question 44

How did women help the war effort

Answer 44

They provided supplies such as food and blankets

Question 45

What is draft

Answer 45

military service requirement

Question 46

What is a Copperhead

Answer 46

a northerner who opposed using force to keep the south in the union

Question 47

What is Inflation

Answer 47

rise in price and devaluation of currency

Question 48

What is a profiteer

Answer 48

a manufacturer who raises prices of needed war goods to make extra profit

Question 49

What is income tax

Answer 49

tax on people's earnings

Question 50

What is habeas corpus

Answer 50

right to be charged or to have a hearing before being jailed

Question 51

What were the turning points of the war

Answer 51

The battle of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

Question 52

What year was the Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 52

1863

Question 53

What is a seige

Answer 53

a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building

Question 54

What year was the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 54

1863

Question 55

What was the Gettysburg Address

Answer 55

a short speech given my Lincoln during a ceremony for those lost in the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 56

What was Pickett's Charge

Answer 56

an infantry assault ordered by Confed General Robert E. Lee on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 57

What is total war

Answer 57

War where you destroy anything and everything (usually of use)

Question 58

When did General Lee surrender

Answer 58

1865 after losing Richmond

Question 59

When did the civil war end

Answer 59

April 9, 1865

Question 60

What was one of the north's battle plans

Answer 60

to take both ends of the Mississippi river and weaken the economy of the south

Question 61

What was the south thinking the north was going todo

Answer 61

they thought the north would lose interest in the war

Question 62

When was the emancipation proclamation passed

Answer 62

1863

Question 63

Why was the gettysburg and vicksburg victories significant

Answer 63

because the union got control of the mississippi

Question 64

What is Sherman's March

Answer 64

a total war march conducted by General William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 65

How did the north use its sea power

Answer 65

for blockades

Question 66

What were the weaknesses of the emancipation proclamation

Answer 66

It didn't instantly free slaves and mostly worked in union states and confed border states