Civil War & Reconstruction

Question 1

Created to help freedmen adjust and to set up schools to educate them

Accepted Answer

Freedman's Bureau

Question 2

Passed by Southern states to limit the civil rights and freedom of the freedmen

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Black Codes

Question 3

Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, Jan 1, 1863

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Freed only slaves in rebelling confederate states

Question 4

System of escape routes slaves used to flee slavery and head to freedom in North and Canada

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Underground Railroad

Question 5

Main strategy was to Control the MIssissippi River

Accepted Answer

NORTH

Question 6

Act by government in which escaped slaves must be returned to their owners

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Fugitive Slave Act

Question 7

Prominent American black abolitionist that published The North Star

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglas

Question 8

Which side had more railroads?

Accepted Answer

NORTH

Question 9

Main strategy was Naval Blockade (Anaconda Plan)

Accepted Answer

NORTH

Question 10

Slave states who were loyal to the Union

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Border States

Question 11

Opening battle of the Civil War

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Fort Sumter

Question 12

Broke up Indian tribes and promoted the assimilation of Native Americans into American society

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Dawes Act

Question 13

Also known as the Land Grant College Act, it was a major boost to higher education in America

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Morrill Act

Question 14

Radical Republican

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Favored using Federal power to rebuild the South.

Question 15

Nurse that founded the American Red Cross and was known as the Angel of the Battlefield

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 16

President of the Confederate States

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 17

Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed horrors of slavery and fueled sectionalsim

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 18

The case that declared African Americans were not citizens and had no legal rights

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Dred Scott vs Sandford

Question 19

If you were born in the U.S. then you are a citizen

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14th Amendment

Question 20

Main strategy was to fight a defensive war on their home soil

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SOUTH

Question 21

Speech by Lincoln which reaffirmed the North’s commitment to winning the war

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Gettysburg Address

Question 22

Allowed any citizen to own 160 acres of land if they lived on it for 5 years and improved it

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Homestead Act

Question 23

States Rights

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Powers the states have that the Federal gov can't overrule

Question 24

Banned Slavery

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13th Amendment

Question 25

Reaction to Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 led to violence between anti and proslavery factions

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"Bleeding Kansas"

Question 26

The election of this president in 1860 helped lead to the start of the Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 27

Civil War ended with a Union victory when Lee surrendered to Grant

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Appomattox Courthouse

Question 28

Became President after Lincoln’s assassination and wanted to treat the South leniently

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

Question 29

WHICH SIDE HAD A LARGER POPULATION?

Accepted Answer

NORTH

Question 30

Northern victory which was the turning point of the war in the East

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 31

Split the confederacy in half and gave North control of the Mississippi River

Accepted Answer

Vicksburg

Question 32

Commander of the Union forces during the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 33

Which side had the more experienced military leaders?

Accepted Answer

SOUTH

Question 34

Prominent American white abolitionist that published The Liberator

Accepted Answer

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 35

Head general and military mastermind of the Confederate army

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

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