A Dividing Nation
What states did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 affect?
states northwest of the Ohio River
What did African Americans most fear if they were captured by the south in the civil war?
enslavement
Congress and President Johnson had a close, trusting relationship, true or false?
False
What was the pattern of adding new slave and non-slave states?
Adding a slave state would result in the addition of a free state and vice-versa
What compromise admitted Missouri to the Union as a state with slavery and Maine as a state without slavery?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
What was the largest cause of death in civil war army camps and barracks?
Diesease
What laws caused segregation between races in public?
Jim Crow Laws
What state applied for statehood in 1849 that caused distress for Southern states?
California
Which act said that any person who helped someone escaping enslavement or who refused to help people hired to track down fugitives from slavery could be jailed and that a person arrested?
The Fugitive Slave Act
What did the emancipation proclamation propose?
It said that all people enslaved in Confederate states to be free.
What did the compromise in the Election of 1876 do? List two effects.
Make Hayes president and the withdrawal of Southern troops
What slave state had the most representatives in the Hous of Representatives in the mid 1850’s?
Virginia
What amendment said that Missouri could join the Union but only as a free state?
The Tallmadge Amendment
What battle caused the most deaths in one day during the civil war?
The battle of Antietam
What were President Johnsons 2 major aims for reconstruction?
New Southern governments loyal to the Union and the destruction of slavery
In the mid 1850’s, how many states had slavery? How many did not?
15 with slavery, 15 without
What act caused people to pour into Kansas?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
List 2 things that helped the civil war to be known as the first modern war.
1. First conflict recorded in photographs
2. Railroads were used to transport troops and supplies
3. First to see combat between armor plated steamboats
4. Telegraphs were used to communicate
Who was President Grant's opponent in the Election of 1868? What were his views on Reconstruction?
Horatio Seymour, he promised to end Reconstruction
What were the last 4 states admitted before the 1850’s?
Texas, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin