Vocab Unit 5

Question 1

Political party that wanted to go hard on the South after the Civil War. Some of its members include Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens.

Answer 1

Radical Republicans

Question 2

The first battle of the Civil War

Answer 2

Fort Sumter

Question 3

It marks the end of Reconstruction when the Union troops come home. It has also been called, “The Second Corrupt Bargain.”

Answer 3

Compromise of 1877

Question 4

An organization of Confederate Veterans focused on ending Reconstruction & subjugating the Freedmen.

Answer 4

Ku Klux Klan

Question 5

Extremists in the South who encouraged Secession.

Answer 5

Fire Eaters

Question 6

A system where a landowner allows freedmen and landless whites to use the land in return for a share of the harvest profits.

Answer 6

Sharecropping

Question 7

It was a violent guerrilla war in the 1850’s between pro & anti-slave settlers. This directly led to the birth of the Republican Party.

Answer 7

Bleeding Kansas

Question 8

Proposed Kansas constitution, whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory. Initially ratified by proslavery forces, it was later voted down when Congress required that the entire constitution be put up for a vote.

Answer 8

Lecompton Constitution

Question 9

Partially led to the end of Reconstruction.

Answer 9

Panic of 1873

Question 10

Southern Democratic politicians who sought to wrest control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction.

Answer 10

Redeemers

Question 11

The decision of a state to separate from the government of the United States is called:

Answer 11

Secession

Question 12

Here it was decided that Congress didn’t have the power to prohibit slavery & slaves couldn’t sue for freedom.

Answer 12

Sanford v. Scott

Question 13

The executive order that abolished slavery in the confederate territories as a wartime expedient.

Answer 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 14

He became president after Lincoln was assassinated; from Tennessee; first president to be impeached.

Answer 14

Andrew Johnson

Question 15

Passed over Andrew Johnson’s veto, the bill aimed to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and making it a crime to deprive blacks of their rights to sue, testify in court, or hold property.

Answer 15

Civil Rights Bill of 1866

Question 16

Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. It was introduced by Stephen Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.

Answer 16

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 17

First person of color to ever serve in the Senate, and represented Mississippi during Reconstruction.

Answer 17

Hiram Revels

Question 18

Prelude to the Civil war- attack led by John Brown in 1859.

Answer 18

Harpers Ferry

Question 19

Five slave states—Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia—that did not secede during the Civil War. To keep the states in the Union, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the war was not about abolishing slavery but rather protecting the Union.

Answer 19

Border States

Question 20

It clarifies that being born in the US makes you a citizen with full civil rights & thus reverses the Dred Scott Decision.

Answer 20

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 21

The turning point battle of the Civil war in 1863.

Answer 21

Gettysburg

Question 22

Southerners who assisted in implementing Reconstruction

Answer 22

Scallywags

Question 23

Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft and, after 1863, emancipation.

Answer 23

Copperheads

Question 24

Rewritten slave codes presented as laws in the South. They were meant to roll back the rights of the freedmen.

Answer 24

Black Codes

Question 25

It was created in 1865 to aid newly free slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support.

Answer 25

Freedmans Bureau

Question 26

A term used by Southern whites to describe Northern businessmen and politicians who came to the South after the Civil War to work on Reconstruction projects or invest in Southern infrastructure.

Answer 26

Carpetbaggers

Question 27

Laws passed during the Grant administration to end the KKK & the White League.

Answer 27

Force Acts

Question 28

It granted the vote to Freedmen (but not women).

Answer 28

Fifthteen Amendment

Question 29

It was a part of the compromise of 1850 allowing escaped slaves to be arrested anywhere in the country & returned to their owners.

Answer 29

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 30

Johnson's plan to go soft on the South after the war.

Answer 30

Presidential Reconstruction

Question 31

Passed by the Republican Congress, it divided the South into military districts, punished former confederates, and required that Southern states ratified the 14th Amendment and write constitutions guaranteeing freedmen the franchise before gaining readmission to the Union.

Answer 31

Congressional Reconstruction

Question 32

He was a Pennsylvania Senator and Radical Republican who pushed hard for the rights of freedmen after the war.

Answer 32

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 33

Admitted [California] as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade in Washington D.C, and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. It did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery.

Answer 33

Compromise of 1850

Question 34

Prohibited states from denying citizens the franchise on account of race. It disappointed feminists who wanted the Amendment to include guarantees for women's suffrage.

Answer 34

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 35

Political party that was formed in opposition to Slavery’s Westward expansion after the violence in Bleeding Kansas.

Answer 35

Republican Party

Question 36

It was proposed by a Kentucky senator and was the last attempted compromise before the civil war. Would make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery.

Answer 36

Crittenden Compromise

Question 37

A belief in the 1850's that stated that the question of slavery in the territories should be determined by a vote of the people living there.

Answer 37

Popular Sovereignty

Question 38

He was the head of the corrupt New York Tammany Hall Machine

Answer 38

Boss Tweed

Question 39

Required the President to seek approval from the Senate before removing appointees. When Andrew Johnson removed his secretary of war in violation of the act, he was impeached in the house but remained in office due to one vote in the Senate.

Answer 39

Tenure of Office Act

Question 40

Defacto end of the Civil War. Also known as the place where the Army of Northern Virginia Surrendered

Answer 40

Appomattox

Question 41

He was a champion of Popular Sovereignty, a senator from Illinois & an advocate of the Kansas Nebraska act.

Answer 41

Stephen Douglas