Civil War
Reconstruction
Vocabulary
Industrial Revolution
Pre-Civil War
100
What was the reason Lincoln gave for starting the Civil War?
To unite the country
100
Why was Reconstruction needed and where?
In the south because that is where the majority of the fighting took place
100
Manifest Destiny
The idea that the United States needed to stretch from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean
100
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The change from creating things from hand into having machines do the work
100
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Maine enters as a free state, Missouri enters as a slave state, and 36'30' line
200
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
200
What was a carpetbagger?
A Northerner that moved south after the Civil War for political gain
200
Reservation
Area of land set aside for Native Americans to live in
200
What was the cotton gin? Who invented it?
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton gin and it was used to clean cotton quicker
200
What was the Fugitive Slave law and why did the North oppose it?
It forced people to return runaway slaves. It forced the North to be part of the slave system that they didn't want to support
300
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederacy
300
What were the Black Codes?
Codes passed to limit the freedom of the newly freed slaves
300
Spoils System
The system in which the president gave jobs/positions to supporters
300
What are interchangeable parts?
The idea of making parts the same so that you don't have to replace the whole thing, just the broken piece.
300
3 ways slaves protested slavery
Attempt to run away, break tools, work slow
400
What was the Emanicipation Proclamation?
Document that Lincoln signed ending slavery in the United States
400
Why didn't Lincoln want to severly punish the South?
He felt America would be better to just move on from the Civil War
400
Popular Sovereignty
System in which people in the territorities vote to be either a slave state or a free state
400
Why did industrial growth take place in the North?
Because that is where all the factories where built and the south had the plantations.
400
What was Bleeding Kansas?
When anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups fought against each other in Kansas
500
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
500
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws seperating blacks and whites throughout the South
500
40 acres and a mule
Every former slave received an acre of land and a mule as compensation for years of slavery
500
What is mass production?
Producing products in large quanities with the use of machines
500
What was the importance of the Dred Scott decision?
Slavery was now legal in all the territories. Blacks were considered property and not citizens
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