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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Gettysburg
Which battle is considered the turning point and doomed the Southern Cause?
Radical Republicans
What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?
Normandy
Which of the following was not a battle in the Civil War? Normandy Bull Run Antietam Vicksburg
The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada would be created.
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850? ~California would enter the Union as a free state. ~The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C. ~The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada would be created. ~A tougher fugitive slave law would be enacted.
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Blue
Commonly, the Union soldiers uniforms were...
the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
It permitted former high-ranking Confederates to hold office.
All of the following statements about the Fourteenth Amendment are true EXCEPT: ~It was vehemently opposed by President Johnson. ~It guaranteed all citizens the equal protection of the law. ~It permitted former high-ranking Confederates to hold office. ~It declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens.
14th Amendment
Made African Americans citizens.
Emancipate
"To set free" is the definition of which word?
North
Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves to be free except the ones that lived in the _________.
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as
Robert E. Lee
Commander of the Confederate Army
Missouri Compromise of 1820
This forbid slavery above the 38030' except for Missouri
Northern advantages
More factories, population, and a better navy
Southern Republicans
Scalawags were
obligation to spread across the continent.
The slogan "Manifest Destiny" referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)
Total War
What strategy did Sherman use to destroy the South?
Union
Who won the war?
Outlawed slavery in the United States
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
The United States got a large area of land in the Southwest
One impact of the Mexican-American War was...
Gave African Americans the right to vote
The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
Andrew Johnson
Who was Lincoln's running mate in 1864?
Hiram Revels
The first African American US senator was
The belief that it was America's destiny to conquer and civilize all of North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
Fugitive Slave Act
Enforced a strict law saying runaway slaves in the North must be captured and returned to their masters.
Fort Sumter
The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?
It considered slaves to be property without rights.
What did the Dred Scott decision say?
Homestead Act
Gave 160 acres of land for free if you would live on it and farm it for 5 years
South Carolina
Who was the first state to secede?
15th Amendment
Guaranteed all men the right to vote no matter their race.
Richmond, Virginia
What is the capital city of the Confederate States of America?
Jim Crow Laws
Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877. These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities.
Black Codes
These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working. Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners.
Antietam
After which battle did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
cotton
The South relied on which cash crop for almost all of its economic production?
True
During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule
13th Amendment
What officially abolished slavery in the US?
Gettysburg
Which battle was fought in the North?
impeaching him
The House of Representatives tried to get rid of President Andrew Johnson by doing what to him:
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called
feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.
The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:
The idea that whites are superior
What does white supremacy mean?
the decision allowed slavery in the territories
Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because
True
True or False: A Conscription was A draft required male members of the population to fight in the army.
expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Which best describes Manifest Destiny?
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of the
Gave African Americans citizenship
The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
They were interested in economic opportunity
Why did miners, cowhands, and ranchers want to move west.
Reconstruction
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
Anaconda Plan
What did the North call its strategy to blockade the South's coastline and gain control of the Mississippi River?
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
its economy
The GREATEST strength of the North was
actually helped the new Republican Party.
The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:
False
Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.
To charge an official with a crime.
Which of the following definitions apply to "impeach"? ~To remove an official from office ~To charge an official with a crime. ~To arrest an official for crimes. ~To put an official on trial for "mis-behavior in the White House"
They feared Abraham Lincoln would outlaw slavery in all states
Why did the South secede after the election of 1860?
Someone who was an activist worked to end slavery
An abolitionist is
Antietam
What was the single bloodiest day in the Civil War, where over 23,000 soldiers were killed?
Southern advantages
Better officers, defending homes, don't have to go on the attack
greatly increase the number of former slaves who could read (literate).
During Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau was able to
better military commanders
The South had an advantage over the North in
New York
Which of the following is NOT a border state
Unwanted
How were carpetbaggers viewed by the South?
Ulysses S. Grant
Commander of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War
Border States
Even though these states had slavery, they did not join the Confederate states.
in the South
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves
Mexican American
I use to own land in the West. However, after the U.S. won a war against my country in the 1840s people began discriminating against me. As a result, I lost my land.
Develop the system of sharecropping
Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction? ~Reunite the North and the South ~Rebuild the South ~Develop the system of sharecropping ~Determine what to do with African Americans
maintained balance between slave states and free states
Which statement best explains what was accomplished by the "Missouri Compromise"? ~required captured slaves to be returned ~allowed slavery in Maine but not in Missouri. ~maintained balance between slave states and free states ~It made Missouri the U.S. Capital
13th
What amendment abolished slavery?
Border States
What name was given to Southern states that didn't secede?
All of the above
Carpetbaggers moved south to ~Control politics ~Stop violence against African Americans ~Take advantage of southern economic conditions ~All of the above
Radical Republicans
African Americans gained political representation under which plan?
Fort Sumter
Where did the Civil War begin?
To become independent
What was the major goal of the Confederacy at the onset of the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Andrew Johnson
The President that Congress tried to impeach during Reconstruction was:
The Freedmen's Bureau
The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:
Ten Percent Plan
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was known as:
False
True or False: Lincoln's main goal at the beginning of the Civil War was to end slavery.
Popular sovereignty
An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?
Grey
Commonly, the Confederate soldiers uniforms were...
to preserve the Union
What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?
feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:
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