unit 3

Question 1

Zachary Taylor,

Answer 1

led the American troops to occupy the contested borderland between the 2 rivers

Question 2

compromise of 1850

Answer 2

appeals to north
CA admitted as free state
Appeals to south
Fugitive slave act renewed

Question 3

Fugitive slave act

Answer 3

required police and citizens to help slave holders cath runaway slaves.

Question 4

Millard fillmore

Answer 4

Pres #13, Taylor died and he becomes president and signs Compromise of 1850 into Law

Question 5

Underground railroad

Answer 5

Escaped help from a conductor. Providing routes, shelter,food.

Question 6

Harriet Tubman

Answer 6

Helped with the underground railroad.

Question 7

Uncle Toms cabin

Answer 7

written by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england’s view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.

Question 8

Harriet beecher stowe

Answer 8

wrote the book “Uncle toms cabin.”

Question 9

Franklin pierce

Answer 9

Pres. #14, democrat, pro-slavery, ineffective at handling slavery debate

Question 10

Kanas - Nebraska act

Answer 10

cancels MO Compromise (KS- slave and NE- free) and resulted in Bleeding Kansas

Question 11

Bleeding kansas

Answer 11

bleeding everywhere lots of violence

Question 12

James buchannan

Answer 12

Pres #15, democrat, congressmen, doughface

Question 13

Dred scott vs sanford

Answer 13

Supreme court case supporting that slaves were considered property

Question 14

New republican party

Answer 14

They came from KS/NE act, they rejected slavery and popular sovereignty. Didn’t want slavery to spread

Question 15

Election of 1860

Answer 15

Lincoln wins electoral college, didn’t win any southern votes

Question 16

secession

Answer 16

Sc immediatley secedes

Question 17

The civil war began and ended.

Answer 17

Beginning April 12th, 1861. Ending April 9th 1865

Question 18

Confederate states of America.

Answer 18

(led by Jefferson Davis) wanted to protect slavery

Question 19

Border states

Answer 19

MD, KY, and MO

Question 20

Robert E Lee

Answer 20

Strong Army, well trained
home field advantage

Question 21

Ulysesses s Grant

Answer 21

Stronng Navy, Industury and resocurses, Raildroad network

Question 22

Anaconda Plan

Answer 22

Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy; cut off ports/rivers to divide South

Question 23

Battle of Bull run

Answer 23

General Stonewall Jackson delivers victory for the South. Union learns they need a bigger army

Question 24

Battle of new orleans

Answer 24

David Farragant leas attack, union gain control of lagest port in the south.

Question 25

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 25

Union cut off rail line. Confederate forces surprised union troops

Question 26

Battle of Antietan

Answer 26

Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

Question 27

Battle of Vickysburg

Answer 27

confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins

Question 28

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 28

Direct attack on Union, kept Britain out of war, restored Union moral. Turning point of the War that made it clear the north would win.

Question 29

March to sea

Answer 29

cut a path across georiga to further divide south; took savannah

Question 30

13th ammendment

Answer 30

banning slavery

Question 31

Gentlemans agreement

Answer 31

terms of surrender

Question 32

John wilks booth

Answer 32

Murderer of Lincoln

Question 33

Reconstruction

Answer 33

rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Goverment controls south

Question 34

Thaddeus stevens

Answer 34

Leader of the Radical Republicans

Question 35

Freemens Bureau

Answer 35

Provided Assitance to nearley freed slaves, Boosted edcuation.

Question 36

Andrew johnson

Answer 36

17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.

Question 37

Black codes

Answer 37

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

Question 38

14th amendment

Answer 38

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Question 39

Impeach

Answer 39

to force someone out of office because of wrongdoing

Question 40

Military reconstruction

Answer 40

It divided the South into five military districts

Question 41

15th amendment

Answer 41

gave African American men the right to vote

Question 42

Ulysees s grant

Answer 42

Union General who forced the surrender of Vicksburg and became general in chief of all Union armies he forced lee to fight a series of decisive battles which led to the Confederate surrender

Question 43

Carpetbaggers

Answer 43

northerner who moved south for job opportunities

Question 44

Scalawag

Answer 44

White Southner who supported Reconstruction

Question 45

Ku Klux Clan

Answer 45

group that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

Question 46

Share cropping

Answer 46

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

Question 47

Tenat farming

Answer 47

system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter

Question 48

Rutherford b hayes

Answer 48

removed federal troops from South

Question 49

Pless vs Ferguson established

Answer 49

separate but equal

Question 50

Ida b wells

Answer 50

woman that led a campaign against lynching

Question 51

Booker T washington

Answer 51

wanted to gain equality over time, long-term process to end racism

Question 52

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 52

co-founder of NAACP and pushed for equal treatment NOW

Question 53

Battle of Ft. Sumter

Answer 53

(April 12, 1861) start of Civil War - South Carolina takes the Union fort there. -quickest, least bloodiest battle in the CW