Semester One Final Exam Review (Unit Two)

Question 1

Free Soiler

Answer 1

Opposed to the expansion of slavery for economic reasons

Question 2

Mexican American War

Answer 2

Fought from 1846-1848, America wanted Texas, California, and other South Western territories. Ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 3

Santa Anna

Answer 3

Leader of Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Seen as weak and ineffective by the majority.

Question 4

James K. Polk

Answer 4

President who ran his entire campaign on securing Texas (and was successful in doing so)

Question 5

Preston Brooks

Answer 5

Attacked Charles Sumner after his “Crimes Against Kansas” Speech. Instigated more tension between the North and South

Question 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 6

Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Question 7

Sherman’s March

Answer 7

General Sherman’s military march to the South. Had the goal of forcing the South’s surrender by completely destroying everything. (1864)

Question 8

Habeas Corpus

Answer 8

Law that protected citizens from unlawful arrest.

Question 9

Appomattox

Answer 9

Place of official surrender where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War

Question 10

Republican Party

Answer 10

Formed at the opposition of the expansion of slavery.

Question 11

First State to Secede

Answer 11

South Carolina (1860)

Question 12

Dred Scott

Answer 12

Sued for his freedom, went to Supreme Court, but it was determined that African Americans were not citizens and therefore did not have the legal right to sue

Question 13

John C. Calhoun

Answer 13

Argued that slavery was a positive good.

Question 14

Radical Republicans

Answer 14

Believed Lincoln’s plan was too lenient, and that the South had to be held accountable post-Civil War

Question 15

Gettysburg Address

Answer 15

Speech given by Lincoln in 1863, honored the people who died there.

Question 16

Anaconda Plan

Answer 16

Winfield Scott’s plan at the beginning of the Civil War

Question 17

Lincoln’s Two Conditions at the Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 17

Leave your weapons and go home

Question 18

Union’s Three Goals at the Start of the Civil War

Answer 18

Blockade Southern Ports, cut off the Western States by controlling the Mississippi River and taking control of Richmond

Question 19

13th Amendment

Answer 19

Made slavery illegal except when used as criminal punishment

Question 20

Sharecropping

Answer 20

Post- Civil war economic system, undercut Black Citizens, basically slavery.

Question 21

Carpetbagger

Answer 21

Southerners used this term to describe Northerners who

Question 22

Election of Hayes

Answer 22

Happened in 1876. Led to the Compromise of 1877, which formally ended Reconstruction

Question 23

Nat Turner

Answer 23

Led a slave rebellion in 1831 that resulted in stricter slave codes.

Question 24

Lincoln

Answer 24

Believed in unity, no slavery, wanted peace between the North and South.

Question 25

General Sherman

Answer 25

March to the South and force surrender. 1864.

Question 26

Three Perspectives on Reconstruction

Answer 26

Lincoln, Johnson, and Radical Republicans. Lincoln wanted to reunite quickly and minimize conflict. Johnson wanted to be lenient on the South. Radical Republicans wanted to protect freedman's rights and reshape Southern society.

Question 27

Abolitionists Who Influenced Lincoln

Answer 27

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass

Question 28

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 28

Given by Lincoln in 1863. "All persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Question 29

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 29

Secured Vicksburn and took over the entire Union Army in 1863.

Question 30

40 acres and a Mule

Answer 30

Failed economic promise to Freedpeople. Left them with bad land.

Question 31

Andrew Jackson

Answer 31

Supported the Indian Removal Act in 1830

Question 32

Indian Removal Act

Answer 32

1830. Thousands of Natives died on the journey to present day Oklahoma.