Chapters 10, 11, and 12 review US History

One of President Lincoln’s first major goals for Reconstruction was to…?

Reunify the nation

By the end of the Civil War…?

The South’s economy had been destroyed

Segregation

Separation of the races

President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction required…?

Wealthy planters and confederate leaders to apply for pardons

Farming system in which a tenant paid cash rent to a landowner

Tenant farming

Killed by President Lincoln with a “pocet veto”

Wade-Davis Bill

Forbade states to deny suffrage on the basis of race, color, on previous condition of servitude

Fifteenth amendment

What was the outcome of Johnson’s impeachment proceedings?

The House impeached the president but the senate failed to remove him

Guarantees equality under the law for all citizens

Fourteenth amendment

White southerners who had been locked out of pre-civil war politics

Scalawags

Farming system similar to sharecropping

Share-tenacy

Northern who came to the South to improve their economic or political situations

carpetbaggers

Provided aid to refugees in the South

Freedmen’s Bureau

Limited the rights of African Americans

Black code

Farming system in which landowner dictated the crop

Sharecropping

which of the following was a key problem with the share cropping system?

Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt

During reconstruction, most African American families in the South…?

Remained in rural, and worked at jobs such as farming

Passed by Congress over a presidential veto

Civil Rights Act of 1866

The Republican Party became strong in the south, in part because…?

Millions of Southern African American men became voters

The Enforcement Acts

Made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote

Replaced by Lincoln as Union commander after failing to take Richmond Virginia

George McClellan

The Emacipation Proclamation

Symbolically refined the war as being about slavery

Fierce battle with 25,000 casualties shocked both the North and the South

Battle of Shiloh

The South hoped the need of cotton would bring them allies from…?

Britain and France

Used iron armored ships

The Battle of the Monitor and Virginia

Which of the following was not a border state mention in the reading

Rhode Island

The 1st and 2nd Battles of Bull Run were…

Both won by the South

Bloodiest single day of the Civil War

Battle of Antietam

Union strategy to blockade ports, supplies and divide the confederacy

Anaconda Plan

Prevention of merchant ships from entering ports

blockade

Freed all enslaved people in states in rebellion

Emancipation Proclamation

Captured war supplies

contraband

African American regiment

54th Massachusetts

Mandated the African American soldier by accepted into the military

Militia Act

What advantage did the South have in the Civil War

Superior military leadership

Before he could pass his emancipation plan what did Lincoln’s cabinet say was needed?

A major Union victory

Turned down command of the Union Army to lead the confederate Army

Robert E. Lee

Increasing and high prices demanded for goods

inflation

The “Peace Democrats”

Wanted the war to end

Which of the following was not a role of women took on or played during the Civil War?

Army Messengers

Introduced to help the Union pay for the war

Income Tax

Conscription

The Draft

If drafted in the Union a man could hire a replacement to fight in his place for

$300 dollars a day

Suspended by Lincoln to help stop opponents from undermining the war effort

Right of habeas corpus

Made Western land inexpensive to anyone willing to farm it

Homestead Act

“Peace Democrats”

Copperheads

Led his soldiers on a “March to the Sea”

William Tecumseh Sherman

Military strategy which involved striking civilian as well as military targets

Total War

Led a failed charge during the battle of Gettysburg

George Pickett

Outlawed Slavery in the United State

Thirteenth Amendment

the event that marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North

Gettysburg

How did the total war strategy followed by Grant and Sherman impact the South?

the south suffered serious losses they had no hope of recovering from it

Military tactic to surround, bombard, and cut off supplies to force surrender

Siege

Last Confederate strong hold on the MIssissippi

Vicksburg

Assassinated President Lincoln

John Wikes Booth

Lincoln’s goal to get the Confederacy back into the Union at the end of the Civil War was…?

Do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace

Outlawed Slavery in the United State

Thirteenth Amendment

Surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox

Robert E. Lee

Which of the following was NOT a reason mentioned in the section for why the NOrth eventually won the Civil War?

Outstanding military leadership

Photographer and journalist who showed graphic evidence of the realities of war.

Mathew Brady

Gave money from the sale of public lands to the establishment of universities

Land Grant College Act

What provision did the compromise of 1850 include?

California would be admitted as a free state

To break away

Secede

A new York abolitionist who massacred five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas

John Brown

A proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico

the Missouri compromise

A law that required the return of runaway slaves to their owners

Fugitive slave act

Who was the free soil party’s candidate for president

Martin Van Buren

an informal network of abolitionists that helped fugitive

Kansas-Nebraska act

the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

the characterization of violent outbreaks in 1856 that occurred in and around Lawerence, Kansas

“Bleeding Kansas”

the statutes that nullified the Fugitive Slave act

personal liberties laws

A group whose main goal was to keep slavery out of western territories

free soil party

a policy that allowed voters in a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery

Popular sovereignty

A Maryland born slave known as “Black Moses”

Harriet Tubman

“Bleeding Kansas” demonstrated the popular sovereignty was…?

an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

Legislation based on Henry clay’s proposal for concessions by both the north and south

compromise of 1850

Abolitionists believed that slavery

Was morally wrong and wanted to end it

the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 angered northerners because it…?

required all citizens to support the slave system

under the new fugitive slave act passed in 1850

citizens who helped a runaway slave could be imprisoned

What even started “Bleeding Kansas”?

Border Ruffians raided the anti-slavery town Lawerence, Kansas

Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Stephen A. Douglas

An Illinois politician who promoted popular sovereignty and the annexation of Texas

Stephen Douglas

James Buchanan promised to…?

End the agitation over the issue of slavery

What was Lincoln’s view in African Americans?

They were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

The site where John Brown attempted to seize the federal arsenal

Harpers Ferry

Why did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry fail?

Few Americans would join a rebellion organized by Brown

The chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1857

Roger B Taney

The secret anti-immigrant group that later became the American Party

Know-Nothings

The Dred Scott decision stated that slaves

We’re property of their owners

A Missouri slave who sued for his freedom

Dred Scott

The group formed in 1854 that opposed slavery

Republican Party

Which of the following directly caused the outbreak of the Civil War?

the attack at Fort Sumter

The seven southern states that seceded from the United States organized into the…?

Confederate States of America

A proposed constitutional amendment that allowed slavery in Western territories south of the Missouri Compromise line was known as the

Crittenden Compromise

Jefferson Davis

was chosen as the president of the Confederate States of America

In Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address, he declared that…?

no state can lawfully leave the Union by its own action

To protect their property and way of life, seven southern states…?

seceded

John C. Breckenridge

Was committed to expanding slavery into the territories

The Confederates opened fire on Union troops at____________beginning the Civil War

Fort Sumter

Why did South Carolina seceded from the Union?

They believed that Lincoln was hostile to slavery