Unit 7 Civil War Era Vocabulary

Question 1

Name the Union plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan

Question 2

What's the years the Civil War was fought?

Accepted Answer

1861-1865

Question 3

Name the law passed by government to encourage settling in the West by giving land to farmers.

Accepted Answer

Homestead Act

Question 4

Name the agreement to settle disputed president election of 1876 and remove troops from South.

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1877

Question 5

Name the novel that showed the evils of slavery and injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act.

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 6

Name the compromise where California joined the Union and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 7

Name the law passed by Congress that give land to west states to encourage to build colleges.

Accepted Answer

Morrill Act

Question 8

What's the name of the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union?

Accepted Answer

Confederate States of America

Question 9

Name the song written that referenced bibcal support for the Union cause as a war.

Accepted Answer

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"

Question 10

Name the farm method where a farmer works land for an owner who in return gets a some crops.

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 11

Name the law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans.

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 12

Name the court case that brought question to the federal power over slavery in the territories.

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 13

What's the nickname for a white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Scalawag

Question 14

Name the 1863 speech given by President Lincoln renewed his devotion to winning the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg Address

Question 15

What's the nickname given by newspapers to the 1856 conflict in Kansas over slavery called?

Accepted Answer

"Bleeding Kansas"

Question 16

Name the plan that denied basic rights for anyone who fought for the Confederacy.

Accepted Answer

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 17

What's a Northerner in the South after the Civil War usually seeking private gain called?

Accepted Answer

Carpetbagger

Question 18

Name members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted freedmen received the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

Radical Republicans

Question 19

Name a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.

Accepted Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 20

Name the secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy.

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 21

Name the law passed in 1850 where the North had to capture runaway slaves and return them.

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 22

What's Lincoln's 1863 declaration of freeing slaves in the Confederacy called?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Procalamation

Question 23

What were the slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War called?

Accepted Answer

Border States

Question 24

Name an 1865 amendment to the Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 25

Name the political party formed in 1848 who had no opinion on the slavery issue.

Accepted Answer

Free-Soil Party

Question 26

Name John Brown's attempt to make an armed slave revolt by capturing an arsenal in Virginia.

Accepted Answer

Raid on Harper's Ferry

Question 27

Name Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction that allowed a Southern state for for a new government.

Accepted Answer

Lincoln's 10% Plan

Question 28

Name an 1868 amendment to the Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws.

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 29

Name the legislation passed by Congress that split reservation and individual Indian lands.

Accepted Answer

Dawes Act

Question 30

What's the period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War called?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 31

Name the amendment that forbids any state to deny African Americans to vote because of race.

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 32

Name the political party established in 1854 trying to keep slavery out of western territories.

Accepted Answer

Republican Party

Question 33

Name the laws that required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Question 34

Name the Southern laws that severely limited rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Black Codes

Question 35

Name an 1854 law that established Nebraska and Kansas, allowing people to decide on slavery.

Accepted Answer

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Unit 7 Civil War Era Vocabulary

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