Causes of the Civil War
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
What is the issue of slavery.
Was the North or South Anti-Slavery?
What is the North.
Why was it called the "New South"
What were Jim Crow Laws?
What is laws to legally segregate Colored people from white people.
What was Sharecropping?
What is using someones tools and land and in return giving them crops. They tended to stay in a cycle of debt because they couldn't make much profit off of what they had left to sell.
Who won the election in 1860 which led to the secession of Southern states?
What is Abraham Lincoln.
Who was the President that abolished slavery?
What is Abraham Lincoln.
What did the Bourbon Triumvirate want for the Souths Economy?
What was the outcome of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?
What is discrimination is okay if it was "Separate but equal."
What is the difference between Sharecropping vs. Tenant farming?
What is Tenant farmers had their own tools they just needed land. Sharecroppers needed everything.
What was one of the Souths main arguments that led to their secession?
What is they were trying to argue that the government was interfering with their state rights by taking slavery away.
What amendment abolished slavery?
What is the 13th amendment.
What did the Populist and Tom Watson want for the Souths Economy?
What is to help small farmers and keep agriculture strong in the South.
What were examples of Jim Crow laws?
What is separated schools, barber shops, trains, water fountains (really any public place)
What did the KKK want to do?
What is Intimidate African Americans through violence, threats, ect.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?
What is a law that created 2 new territories (Kansas and Nebraska) and allowed them to decide whether they were a free or slave state.
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott Case?
What was the main economic change in the New South?
What is the rise of Industry in the South.
What is Disenfranchisement?
What is depriving African Americans the right to vote.
What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?
What is help poor white farmers and ex-slaves after the Civil war.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What is the law that admitted Missouri as a slave state but Maine as a free state. (To balance power)
What was the Compromise of 1850?
What is California being admitted into the U.S. as a free state but in result the Fugitive Slave act being passed.
What did railroads do for the South during this period?
What is helped them greatly grow as an economy to transport goods and connect industries.
What were ways used to disenfranchise African Americans?
Why were black legislators removed from office?
What is to keep Whites in power.