US History Chapter 3

Question 1

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 1

no slavery in land won from Mexican war

Question 2

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 2

Territories vote to allow slavery or not

Question 3

Forty-Niners

Answer 3

The people who moved to California for the gold rush

Question 4

Secession

Answer 4

Leaving the Union and declaring your own country

Question 5

Underground Railroad

Answer 5

A path with conductors to help people get out of slavery

Question 6

Harriet Tubman

Answer 6

A woman who helped many slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

Question 7

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 7

A railroad that went all the way to the Pacific, there was a northern and southern route

Question 8

John Brown

Answer 8

An abolitionist who wanted to start an armed rebellion against slave owners and he also gave slaves weapons

Question 9

Insurrection

Answer 9

Armed rebellion

Question 10

Jefferson Davis

Answer 10

the first president of the Confederate states

Question 11

Fort Sumter

Answer 11

A Union fort in a Confederate state that was invaded by Jefferson Davis, there was a battle, but eventually Fort Sumter surrendered

Question 12

Martial Law

Answer 12

new laws that are usually made during war enforced by the army (military law)

Question 13

Habeas Corpus

Answer 13

The right to know why you are being arrested and the right to trial

Question 14

Robert E. Lee

Answer 14

Confederate general

Question 15

Greenbacks

Answer 15

the paper money that was the new national currency

Question 16

The Conscription

Answer 16

Forced military service

Question 17

Attrition

Answer 17

The idea that you needed to kill more people than you lose in every battle

Question 18

Blockade Runners

Answer 18

Confederate people who tried to sneak past the Union blockade

Question 19

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 19

Union general, and later president

Question 20

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Answer 20

first black volunteer regiment

Question 21

Foraging

Answer 21

looking for food in the wilderness

Question 22

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 22

Union general who wanted to make “old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” He invaded many Southern towns and terrorized them to make them lose hope in the war.

Question 23

George B. McClellan

Answer 23

An overly cautious Union general who was eventually fired because Lincoln thought he was extending the war

Question 24

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 24

An amendment that abolished slavery

Question 25

Appomattox Court House

Answer 25

the courthouse where the treaty that ended the Civil War was signed

Question 26

Pillaged

Answer 26

to rob violently

Question 27

George Meade

Answer 27

the Union general who replaced Hooker, but he was eventually replaced by Grant

Question 28

Sherman Neckties

Answer 28

Union soldiers would twist Confederate railroad ties into knots

Question 29

Carpetbaggers

Answer 29

The people who moved south to take advantage of the economic opportunities

Question 30

Debt Peonage

Answer 30

when someone is in debt without a way to get out of it (financial slavery)

Question 31

What problem did all the territory gained from the war with Mexico cause for the US?

Answer 31

The new territories upset the balance of slave/free states. If they went either way, that side would have more power.

Question 32

What was the compromise of 1850? What problem did it solve?

Answer 32

This said that California will be a free state, the new territories will have popular sovereignty, the slave trade is abolished in Washington D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Law is stricter.

Question 33

What is Uncle Tom’s cabin? What kind of impact did it have on the northerners who read it?

Answer 33

It was a book written by a white woman that told the story of a slave in the midst of slavery. It was told as a story, not as a debate therefore people were not defensive when reading it and it gave them an emotional reaction to what happened to the slave. It made abolition more popular and changed peoples minds on slavery due to the disarming way it was written.

Question 34

What was Bleeding Kansas? Why did it happen?

Answer 34

This was a mini civil war between those in Kansas for slavery and those against it. This happened because both those who did and didn’t support slavery went to Kansas to vote whether or not this state would be free or not.

Question 35

Who was Dred Scott? What was the result of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

Answer 35

He was a slave who sued his master for freedom after he took Dred Scott to live in a free state for a while. Sandford won because the supreme court told Dred Scott that black people could not sue.

Question 36

How was the election of Abraham Lincoln the last straw for southerners?

Answer 36

They already had a free state majority in Congress and then an anti-slave president got elected. They thought their only choice was to lose slavery, their way of living, or secede.

Question 37

What dilemma did president Davis face regarding Fort Sumter?

Answer 37

He had to decide whether to let the Union Soldiers stay or kick them out.

Question 38

If the Confederacy hadn’t have fired on Fort Sumter, with what decision would President Lincoln have been faced?

Answer 38

If they didn’t, he would have decided whether or not to “take the first hit” or not against the South. Because they did this, the North instead acted out of self defense.

Question 39

What is the basic message of Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address?

Answer 39

He is essentially saying that the problems of the Civil War are the peoples’, not Lincoln’s, and that they need to work together to survive.