Random History
What was the turning point of the Revolutionary War?
The Battle of Saratoga
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
People from the North will have to send back "fugitive" enslaved person back to the South.
Who surrendered at the Appomattox Court House?
Robert E. Lee, finalizing Confederacy defeat.
What was the point of the Reconstruction Era?
Goal: To officially bring back the South to the U.S
What is the 13th Amendment?
Abolishment of slavery in the U.S
What are the three self-governments that the colonists formed?
1. Virginia House of Burgesses
2. Mayflower Compact
3. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Under the Compromise of 1850, the state of California became a _______?
Free state
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg so important for the Union?
Union turning point where the Union won. It was the last battle fought in Union soil (North).
Radical Republicans
What is the 14th Amendment?
Citizenship. If you are born in the U.S, you are a citizen.
Write down what are the jobs of the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and Judicial Branch.
Executive: Enforce laws & Command the army
Legislative: Make laws & Declare war
Judicial: Interpret laws & declare laws unconstitutional
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed states to do what?
Popular Sovereignty: Allowed states to choose/vote if they will be a free state or slave state
Describe the Anaconda Plan.
The Anaconda Plan was a northern war plan that would take over the Mississippi River, which would cut the Confederacy in half and cut off their supplies.
What consequences did the Union give to the Confederacy after the Civil War?
None- The Union thought it to be better to just get the Union back together.
What is the 15th Amendment?
All men are allowed to vote in elections. Except for Native Americans and women.
Benefit: Able to clean cotton faster so it can be sold
Con: Doubled the use of slavery, made soil infertile
The Court case Dred Scott v Sanford declared something Unconstitutional. What did this court case declare unconstitutional?
Missouri Compromise
What are two consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation?
1. Made slavery illegal in the Union
2. Allowed freedmen to join the Union Army
3. Made the war about slavery so Europe could not help the Confederacy
Black Codes: multiple ways to make sure African Americans would not be allowed to vote such as literacy tests and poll taxes
Why was the 14th amendment created?
To reverse Dredd Scott v. Sanford: African Americans were property not people
Describe the free-enterprise system. How this system help the Industrial Revolution?
Free enterprise system: System where the government gives few laws and regulations to make sure businesses thrive.
Helped make sure businesses continue and make their own rules. More technology was made.
Describe Sectionalism. Why did it cause the North and the South to go to war?
Sectionalism: Sections are separated based on different things such as economy, language and culture.
North and South had very different economies. South used enslaved labor for plantations and the North relied on factories.
The Union accomplished the Anaconda Plan and was able to crush the Confederacy.
Why was sharecropping created?
A response to the 13th amendment. It was a legal was to enslave freedmen which led to a lifetime of poverty and debt.
Why was the 13th Amendment made?
To keep the Emancipation Proclamation in place since it was not a legal law in the South.