Test 12

Question 0

When were utopian communities created?

Answer 0

During the age of reform

Question 1

What are utopian communities?

Answer 1

Communities based on the ideas of a perfect society.

Question 2

What was the second great awakening?

Answer 2

A time of religious revival that swept through the country in the mid 1800s

Question 3

What was the temperance movement?

Answer 3

It called on Americans to limit or stop their alcohol consumption

Question 4

Who was Horace Mann?

Answer 4

A leader in the educational reform movement when the school year was lengthened and free public education was offered in many states

Question 5

Who was Dorothea Dix?

Answer 5

A leading reformer for prisoners and the mentally ill

Question 6

Who began their work in America?

Answer 6

Transcendentalists artists

Question 7

What were Transcendentalists artists?

Answer 7

Artists who connected humans and nature

Question 8

Who wrote uncle toms cabin?

Answer 8

Harriett Beacher Stowe

Question 9

What happened to uncle toms cabin?

Answer 9

It became a best seller and it opened Americas eyes to the cruelty of slavery

Question 10

Who were abolitionists?

Answer 10

People that called for an end to slavery and fought to make it happen

Question 11

What did the American colonization society do?

Answer 11

Worked to free enslaved African Americans and send them to new colonies in Africa and the Carribean

Question 12

Who started the country of Liberia?

Answer 12

The American colonization society

Question 13

What did William Lloyd garrison do?

Answer 13

He started a newspaper called the liberator to publish cruelties against slaves and call for their immediate emancipation

Question 14

Who were the Grimke sisters?

Answer 14

Sisters that grew up with slaves and became abolitionists who wrote books and made speeches against slavery.

Question 15

Who was Fredrick Douglas?

Answer 15

One of the most influential abolitionists who was born a slave, taught himself to read and write, escaped the north, and dedicated his life to traveling and giving speeches for an end to slavery

Question 16

Why were many northerners against abolition?

Answer 16

They felt African Americans would not blend into society, they would take northern jobs, or r abolition movement would start a war

Question 17

What did many northerners depend on for their livelihood?

Answer 17

Slavery

Question 18

Who met at the world antislavery convention?

Answer 18

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Question 19

What were they forced to do?

Answer 19

Sit behind a curtain separated from the men

Question 20

What did Mott and Stanton organize?

Answer 20

The Seneca falls convention for women’s rights

Question 21

What did they create?

Answer 21

The declaration of sentiments demanding suffrage for women’s rights

Question 22

Who was Susan B Anthony?

Answer 22

Another leader of women’s rights movement who fought for women’s suffrage and women’s education

Question 23

What caused a heated debate in congress?

Answer 23

The addition of new territories such as Texas, New Mexico and California

Question 24

What was the debate about?

Answer 24

Whether or not slavery would be allowed in these territories or not

Question 25

What came first in Henry clays new comprimise?

Answer 25

California would be admitted as a free state

Question 26

Then...

Answer 26

The New Mexico region would have no restrictions on slavery

Question 27

Third...

Answer 27

The New Mexico Texas border dispute would be settled in favor of New Mexico

Question 28

Fourth...

Answer 28

The slave trade but not slavery itself would be abolished i. The District of Columbia

Question 29

Finally...

Answer 29

Clay pushed for a stronger slave act

Question 30

What did the fugitive slave act do?

Answer 30

Gave southerners the right to try and reclaim runaway slaves

Question 31

What happened to people who tried to help runaway slaves?

Answer 31

They could be fined or imprisoned

Question 32

What did northerners think of the new law?

Answer 32

It outraged them

Question 33

Who proposed popular sovereignty?

Answer 33

Stephen Douglas

Question 34

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 34

Letting people decide on the issue of slavery in the proposed states of Kansas and Nebraska

Question 35

How did people react to this?

Answer 35

Proslavery and antislavery groups rushed into Kansas to vote in the elections and a Proslavery government was elected

Question 36

What did antislavery voters do?

Answer 36

Held separate elections and elected an antislavery government

Question 37

What did disagreement in Kansas lead to?

Answer 37

Bloodshed

Question 38

When was there bloodshed?

Answer 38

When Proslavery groups attacked and destroyed the antislavery capital of Lawrence

Question 39

What did John Brown do?

Answer 39

Led armed vigilantes around Kansas and killed five men by the potowatomi creek

Question 40

What did Preston brooks do?

Answer 40

Attacked Charles sumner with a cane beating him into unconsciousness

Question 41

What did Charles sumner do?

Answer 41

Made a fiery speech against slavery

Question 42

Who was Dred Scott?

Answer 42

A slave who used his freedom when his master died because his master had taken him into free territory

Question 43

What did the Supreme Court say?

Answer 43

They ruled against him for 4 reasons

Question 44

What were the 4 reasons?

Answer 44

1. He was still a slave 2. He was not a citizen, but property, and therefore could not sue 3. Americans could not be denied their right to property and therefore slavery could not be banned in the territories 4. The decision nullified the Missouri comprimise

Question 45

Who had a series of debates?

Answer 45

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

Question 46

When? And what did the debates become known as?

Answer 46

The Lincoln-Douglas debates as they ran for the Illinois state seat

Question 47

Where did John brown lead a raid?

Answer 47

On Harpers Ferry Virginia

Question 48

Why did he lead the raid?

Answer 48

As an attempt to arm slaves and start an uprising

Question 49

What happened after the raid?

Answer 49

He failed his sons were killed and he was sentenced to be hanged

Question 50

What happened in 1860?

Answer 50

Lincoln. Did not win a single state but was still elected president

Question 51

Who was the first state to secede from the union?

Answer 51

South Carolina

Question 52

What happened as other sates began to join them?

Answer 52

They declared themselves a new nation called the confederate states of America and made Jefferson Davis their president

Question 53

What officially started the civil war?

Answer 53

The confederates attack on fort Sumter on April 12,1861

Question 54

What was the capital of the confederacy?

Answer 54

Richmond, VA

Question 55

Who and what were the border states?

Answer 55

Slave states that did not join the confederacy- Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky

Question 56

what was the first major battle of the Civil War?

Answer 56

The first battle of Bull Run Or the battle of Manassas

Question 57

What were the rebels able to do?

Answer 57

Drive back the Yankees who collided with spectators as they retreated

Question 58

What did the north and sou build during the civil war?

Answer 58

Ironclads that changed naval warfare forever (Merrimack vs. Monitor)

Question 59

What happened at the battle of Shiloh?

Answer 59

The confederates surprised the union troops and drove them back the first day of fighting however the nor recieved reinforcements during the night and were able to overtake the rebels

Question 60

What was the single bloodiest day in the war?

Answer 60

The battle of Antietam

Question 61

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 61

In 1875 it abolished slavery and was ratified

Question 62

Who served as nurses for the first time in the civil war?

Answer 62

Women such as Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix

Question 63

What happened to the south under Robert e Lee?

Answer 63

They had major victories at Fredricksburg and Chancellorville

Question 64

What did the 3 day battle of Gettysburg do to the war?

Answer 64

Turned the tide to the unions favor

Question 65

What did Sherman do?

Answer 65

Marched his men from Atlanta to savannah waging total warfare on the south

Question 66

What is total warfare?

Answer 66

They destroyed everything in their path from crops and livestock to homes and cities

Question 67

Where did Lee surrender

Answer 67

Appomatix courthouse, VA

Question 68

What did Grant do after they surrendered to him?

Answer 68

Sent lees troops home with food for his starving men