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What was the primary economic system in the Southern United States during the Antebellum period?
Plantation based agriculture
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is notable for being:
The first women’s rights convention in the US
The concept of “Manifest Destiny” was associated with:
The westward expansion of the US
Which cultural and intellectual movement established the connection between people and Nature?
Transcendentalism
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What form of transportation replaced the canal system as the main form of long distance transportation?
Railroads
What does ‘antebellum’ mean?
Before the war
Who led the slave rebellion in 1831?
Nat Turner
Which of the following jobs occupied the majority of slave labor?
Cotton farming
Gaining easy access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans was important to the US and merchants
Because now it was going to be cheaper to ship goods.
What is Sectionalism?
Narrow
What did Robert Fulton invent?
Steamboat
The Erie canal system runs through which state?
New York
Most immigrants during the Antebellum period were from what country?
Ireland
Who helped open mental hospitals in 11 states?
Dorothea Dix
What crop was considered king in the Antebellum South?
Cotton
What was the name of the political party that formed during this time period and was known for keeping themselves rather secret?
Know Nothing
Which policy warned European nations not to interfere in the Americas?
Monroe Doctrine
How would the pre
Civil War economy in the North best be characterized?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 addressed the issue of slavery in new territories by:
Allowing slavery in some new states and banning it in others
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
Mandated the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even in free states
The term 'abolitionist' refers to someone who advocated for the:
Abolition of slavery
Who famously led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave rebellion?
John Brown
The Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision ruled that:
Slaves were property and not citizens
Who was known as the 'Moses of her people' for her efforts in leading slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
The famous speech 'Ain’t I a Woman?' was delivered by:
Sojourner Truth
Which book by Harriet Beecher Stowe supported abolition?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the Underground Railroad?
Secret safe houses and routes for escaped slaves
What was the economic difference between North and South pre
Civil War?
What family freed Dred Scott and his family?
Blow family
What was the cotton gin?
A device to mechanically remove seeds from the cotton
What was the significance of the Kansas
Nebraska Act?
Who was president of the Confederate States?
Jefferson Davis
Which general led the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
Which battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?
Antietam
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
What was the Underground Railroad’s purpose?
To help runaway slaves escape to freedom
What was the Anaconda Plan?
A strategy to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River
What was the main goal of the Copperheads?
To promote immediate peace with the South
How was slavery formally abolished?
Ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865
What was a scalawag?
A white Southern Republican seen as a traitor by other Southerners
President Abraham Lincoln’s main goal throughout the Civil War was to
Preserve the Union
As a result of Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860, several Southern states called for
Secession from the Union
Sectionalism in the United States contributed most to the start of the
Civil War
Which Civil War event occurred first?
Firing on Fort Sumter
Why was 'Bleeding Kansas' important?
It showed how violent the fight over slavery had become
Which state entered the union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?
California
What political party did Lincoln belong to when he was elected president?
Republican
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
How long did the Battle of Gettysburg last?
3 Days
Whose 'scorched earth' strategy helped destroy the South's economy and way of life?
General William Tecumseh Sherman
The Battle of Antietam was important in the Civil War because it
Prevented Confederate forces from taking Washington D.C. and encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
How did General William T. Sherman mainly contribute to the Union’s victory in the Civil War?
He marched from Atlanta to Savannah and destroyed a main supply
The Civil War came to the end when the Confederate forces surrendered to the North at
Appomattox Court House
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as?
Secession
Who was appointed to President of the Confederate States?
Jefferson Davis
Which state was the first to secede from the United States in 1860?
South Carolina
After the election of who in 1860 led South Carolina to secede from the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
The attack on this fort in South Carolina officially started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Bull Run
Who was Clara Barton?
A Civil War Nurse and Founder of the Red Cross
How were the carpetbaggers received in the Southern states?
They were seen as profiteers
Who was responsible for enforcing Black Codes and 'Jim Crow' laws?
Local law enforcement officers
What was the Congressional Reconstruction plan also known as?
Radical Reconstruction
The effort to rebuild the South after the Civil War was referred to as
Reconstruction
What institution became central to African American communities in the South?
Churches
What was a carpetbagger?
A Northerner who came South for political opportunities
What was the result of Republican anger at President Johnson over Reconstruction?
Johnson was impeached, but not convicted
What result of the Civil War prompted the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau
Newly freed African Americans had no homes nor any way to support themselves.
In their plans for Reconstruction, both President Lincoln and President Johnson sought to
Allow Southern states to re
The main intent of a literacy test was to
Prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right.
Critics of native Southern whites who joined the Republican Party called them
Scalawags
The 'Black Codes' were a set of regulations established by
The southern states to promote white supremacy and to control the economic and social activities of the freedmen.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Officially ended slavery.
An agency set up to provide food, clothing, med. care & legal advice to poor blacks & whites.
Freedmen's Bureau
What effect did the sharecropper system have on the South after the Civil War?
It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.
To charge a government official with a crime is called
Impeachment
The major purpose of provisions of the 14th amendment was to
Protect the rights of African Americans.
Which newspaper headline would have appeared during the Reconstruction Period after Civil War?
Former Slaves Made Citizens
During Reconstruction, the Black Codes passed by Southern States were attempts to
Deny equal rights to African Americans.
How was the institution of slavery formally abolished in the United States?
Ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865
How were poll taxes & literacy tests used?
To deny African Americans the right to vote