North and South pre-civil war
What region was considered industrialized (more factories) North or South?
North
What were two important issues that divided the North and South before the Civil War?
State's Rights and Slavery
What is the official country name the southern states that seceded used
The Confederate States of America
What year was Lincoln assassinated?
1865
Define what a Boomtown is
Towns that popped up overnight near mining sites
What was one negative factor about working in factories?
Poor working conditions, long hours, injuries, child labor
T or F: Many Southern states felt that states should have final authority, not the national government.
True
What is the name of the Fort that the Confederate states attacked, starting the civil war
Sumter
T or F: The Reconstruction Era truly began at the end of the World War II.
False
Select the two groups of people who moved west to raise cattle
Civil War veterans and African Americans
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Which economy depended on slave labor- North or South?
South
What did the emancipation proclamation do
freed all slaves in the confederacy
T or F The 14th Amendment guaranteed Black Americans equal rights.
True
Define what a national grange is
a large farmers organization
Define what slave codes are
Laws in Southern states that controlled enslaved people
Describe the fugitive slave act
The act required runaway slaves to be
returned to the South even if they had
made it to free territory the North.
What did the 13th amendment do?
banned slavery
Northerners that moved to the South to make money off of the rebuilding were called ____
Carpetbaggers
What is a railroad baron?
Owner of a large company that buys out smaller companies
Who was a popular religious leader that led a group of followers on a slave revolt that killed at least 55 whites
Nat Turner
Explain the ruling on the Dred Scott decision
The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, declaring that slaves and freed blacks were not citizens of the U.S. and did not have the right to sue in the first place.
What is the definition of total war
destroying not only enemy’s army, but also its land and people
Reconstruction ended with the presidential election of Rutherford B. ___________
Hayes
Name all three of Thomas Edison's most important inventions
phonograph, light bulb, power plants