Key Vocab
What term describes the belief that states' rights are superior to those of the federal government?
Answer: What is states’ rights?
What was the main cause of tension between the North and South before the Civil War?
Answer: What is slavery?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Answer: What was the name of the strategy that involved the Union blockading Southern ports so they could not trade their cotton for supplies?
What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Answer: What is to help freedmen and poor whites by providing food, clothing, and education?
What was the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: What is it freed slaves in Confederate states but not in border states?
What is the act of a state declaring that a federal law is invalid?
Answer: What is nullification?
What compromise allowed California to enter as a free state while other territories decided for themselves?
Answer: What is the Compromise of 1850?
Where did the second bloodiest battle to control a major railroad hub in the Civil War take place?
Answer: What is Chickamauga?
What was sharecropping?
Answer: What is a system where farmers worked on someone else’s land and paid with part of their crops?
Why did people in the North and the South have differing opinions on slavery?
Answer: What is the South’s economy depended on slavery and the North’s economy depended on industries that did not depend on slavery
What term refers to the political movement aimed at ending slavery?
Answer: What is abolition?
What 1860 event led to the immediate cause of the Civil War?
Answer: What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
What were the deplorable conditions faced by Union soldiers at Andersonville?
Answer: What is widespread starvation, disease, and overcrowding?
What was the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming?
Answer: What is that tenant farmers owned some equipment and/or farm animals, while sharecroppers owned nothing?
Who implemented the Congressional Reconstruction Plan?
What was the role of the KKK in Reconstruction?
Answer: What is intimidation of black legislators and those attempting to vote Republican?
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision?
Answer: What is that Scott was not considered a citizen and could not sue for freedom?
What was the purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea?
Answer: What is to destroy Southern morale and infrastructure?
What was the main difference between Presidential and Congressional plans for Reconstruction?
Answer: What is the Congressional plan was more stringent and aimed at ensuring civil rights for freed slaves?
What are the major differences between the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Answer: What is the Missouri Compromise aimed to balance the number of free and slave states, while the Compromise of 1850 let states decide for themselves and issued the Fugitive Slave Act
Who were the black legislators during Reconstruction?
Answer: Who were the African American lawmakers who were expelled from the legislature (Georgia's General Assembly) by Southern Democrats?
What was the Georgia Platform?
Answer: What is a declaration that Georgia would remain in the Union if the Compromise of 1850 was upheld?
Why was Atlanta an important military target for the Union?
Answer: What is it was a major railroad hub and the center of industry in Georgia?
Explain the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Answer: Which amendments abolished slavery and provided citizenship and voting rights to African Americans in that order?
Why would Georgia hold secession debates after Lincoln's election in 1860?
Answer: They were afraid Lincoln would abolish slavery