U.S. History Mr. Dobbels Test Three (III)

Popular vote

According to the idea of popular sovereignty, which of the following would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

Andrew Johnson

After Lincoln's assassination, this man became the President. He was the only senator from a confederate state to remain loyal to the Union. He was a former slave owner, but hated wealthy Southern planters, whom he held responsible for starting the war. He supported the abolition of slavery, but was not in favor of former slaves gaining the right to vote. He vetoed the Reconstruction Acts.

Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation

After this event many slaves began joining the Union Army?

1st Battle of Bull Run

Battle took place in Virginia, 25 miles southwest of Washington. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson resisted Union attacks. The North was defeated and forced to retreat to Washington D.C. President Lincoln realized the war would be long. Foolish citizens who had never seen a war packed picnic baskets and went to watch the show. They became entangled with the fleeing Union soldiers and many died. What battle was this?

John C. Calhoun

Called for Nullification States Rights Supporter

War of Attrition

Definition: A war that is prolonged until one side either cannot continue fighting or has lost the will to fight. This was part of the Southern Strategy for the war. They intended to defend the area until the North gave up and left.

Freedmen's Bureau

Definition: Assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothes and food. Set up more than 40 hospitals, 4000 schools, 61 industrial institutes and 74 teacher training centers.

14th Amendment

Everyone (including former slaves) born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen of the country, as well as the state they live in. It overruled the Dred Scott decision.

Passing laws to restrict the rights of African Americans, wiping out social programs, and dismantling public schools.

Give three examples of "redemption" as it was defined near the end of Reconstruction?

Charles Sumner

He got beat with a cane by Preston Brooks. He got his revenge as a leader of Congress's Radical Republican Plan for Reconstruction.

Ulysses S. Grant

He led the siege on Vicksburg, Mississippi and spurred on a Union Victory. He was a Northern General. Basically, he was the antagonist to Robert E. Lee. He was the general at Appomattox when Lee surrendered.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

He led troops at the Battle of Bull Run. He earned the nickname "Stonewall" as his brigade resisted Union attacks.

William Tecumseh Sherman

He was a Union General. He engaged in Total War against the Confederacy. By splitting the south and destroying food, supplies, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians, he shortened the war. His army made a bloody march through Georgia, burning and looting in a wide area, to destroy all support for the army. He burned Atlanta and took Savannah in December, presenting it to Lincoln as a Christmas present.

John Brown

He was violent and anti-slavery. He was involved in Bleeding Kansas He led a failed raid on Harper's Ferry. He was executed.

Robert E. Lee

Head general of the Confederate Army, specifically the one out of Virginia.

Helped Lincoln Win

How did Sherman's taking of Atlanta greatly impact the election of 1864?

11

How many states were in the confederacy?

Appomattox Court House

Lee surrendered to Grant here, which ended the Civil War.

Black Codes

Mississippi and South Carolina were the first states to enact these. They prohibited blacks from carrying weapons, marrying whites, testifying against whites, owning land, and much more! The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was supposed to bring an end to these, but the law didn't last. They also became known as the Jim Crow Laws.

Jefferson Davis

President/Leader of the Confederacy

Charles Sumner

Preston Brooks beat this Massachusetts Senator with a cane on the Senate floor.

1876 Election and Compromise of 1877

Reconstruction ended predominately for what reason?

Right to Vote

The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed which of the following to blacks?

views

The Republican Party was formed by people who, despite their differences were united in their _________________________.

General George McClellan

The Union general that led his troops during Antietam.

Anaconda Plan

The Union had a three part plan to conquer the south: 1. Block southern ports. 2. Split up the Confederacy in two via the Mississippi River. 3. Capture the Confederate Capital of Richmond, Virginia.

South Carolina's Secession

The election of 1860 resulted in what event?

Fort Sumter

The first shots of the American Civil War were fired here.

John C. Calhoun

The prominent South Carolina senator who believed strongly in state's rights.

Abraham Lincoln

The sixteenth president of the United States

Poll Taxes

These are annual taxes that had to be paid before qualifying to vote. They disenfranchised African Americans and prevented them from voting.

15th Amendment

This amendment guaranteed African American males the right to vote.

Fifteenth Amendment

This amendment states: No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement.

Emancipation Proclamation

This document was issued on January 1st, 1863. It declared salves within the Confederacy free. He didn't declare the slaves in the border states free.

William Tecumseh Sherman

This man led the Union troops on a march through the South, destroying everything in sight and burning major Southern cities such as Atlanta and Columbia.

Literacy Test

This was required to vote unless a father or grandfather had voted before January 1st, 1867.

Massachusetts 54th

This was the first military unit consisting of black soldiers to be raised in the North during the Civil War.

Sherman's March to the Sea

Total War Split the south by destroying food, supplies, and morale of soldiers and civilians. Destroyed all support for the Army Victims of this campaign include Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbia to say the least. What was this military campaign called?

More people, more factories, more food better railroads, skillful leader

What are advantages enjoyed by the North during the Civil War?

Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

What are the measures that were used to keep African Americans from voting?

Impeachment, one vote short

What did Radical Republicans attempt to do regarding president Andrew Johnson? Were they successful?

Not diverse

What is the weakness in the Southern economy during the nineteenth century contributed to difficulties after the Civil War?

The Freedmen's Bureau

What represented an effort by the Union to help newly freed slaves?

It raised tensions between slave and free states.

What was one effect of John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry?

Education

What was the most effective service that the Freedmen's Bureau provided to African Americans?

Block southern ports, split the Confederacy in two via the Mississippi River, and Capture the Confederate Capital

What were the three parts of the Anaconda Plan to conquer the South?

Separate but Equal

What would be supported by the decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Appomattox Courthouse

Where did the Confederacy on behalf of Robert E. Lee surrender on April 9th, 1865

John Wilkes Booth

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Who would have most likely been the quickest to give power back to the state governments in the South?