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Questions for Trashket Ball
1. What is popular sovereignty?
Citizens of a territory could vote to come into the Union as a slave state or as a free state.
2. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act state?
Citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories could vote on whether to be slave or free
states.
3. Which previous ideal or law was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Missouri Compromise
4. Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
5. Why was the South so infuriated by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
They believed that the book spread anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
6. Why was Abolitionist John Brown executed?
For his attempt to seize the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
7. What did abolitionists believe about slavery?
That it was morally wrong and they wanted to end it
8. Name one provision of the Compromise of 1850.
California would be admitted as a free state
9. Name one more provision of the Compromise of 1850.
The Fugitive Slave Act
10. Under the Fugitive Slave Act, what would happen to a citizen who helped a runaway
slave?
They would be imprisoned.
11. Name the conductor on the Underground Railroad who was known as “Black Moses”?
Harriet Tubman
12. In Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, how did he attempt to reassure the South about his
stand on slavery?
He said that they would make their own decisions about slavery.
13. What event started “Bleeding Kansas”?
Border ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas.
14. What was the ruling in the Dred Scott case?
That slaves were property and not citizens
15. What was Lincoln’s view on the rights of African Americans?
They were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
16. What event caused South Carolina to secede from the Union?
The election of Lincoln with no Southern electoral votes
17. Why did seceding states leave the Union after Lincoln was elected?
They seceded to protect their property and way of life.
18. What event directly caused the outbreak of the Civil War?
The attack on Fort Sumter
19. To what did Lincoln refer when he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”?
The union could not continue with both free states and slave states
20. Describe the economy of the South.
Agricultural
21. Describe the economy of the North.
Industrial as well as agricultural
22. How did the Civil War affect industries in the North?
Industries became more mechanized.
23. Compare the population of the North to the population of the South.
The North’s population was much larger.
24. What is one geographic advantage the South had over the North?
The South was fighting on its own territory.
25. What was so shocking about the Civil War’s first large battle, the first Battle of Bull
Run?
The battle was more brutal than people expected.
26. What port on the Gulf of Mexico was captured by union forces early in the war?
New Orleans
27. What did the U.S. Treasury create when the Legal Tender Act was passed in 1862?
A common national currency known as the “greenback”
28. What happened to the South’s economy during the Civil War?
It deteriorated.
29. What risks did a soldier face even if he survived being wounded?
Dying from disease
30. What profession grew substantially with women’s participation during the Civil War?
Nursing
31. What was the basis of the South’s economy after the Civil War?
Agriculture
32. How did the Civil War affect the issue of states’ rights?
The supremacy of the federal government over the states was firmly established.
33. The union gained control of the Mississippi River when troops captured
Vicksburg
34. Name the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg, PA; the South never fought on Union soil again
35. What did Union forces decide to attack in their effort to demoralize the South after 1863?
Military and civilian targets – Total War
36. What event preceded the fall of the Confederate capital, Richmond, VA?
Lee’s retreat from Petersburg, VA
37. Where did Lee surrender to Grant
Appomattox Court House
38. Name one advantage that helped the North to defeat the South.
More technological resources, more capital, more population, etc.
39. Which side had a more difficult time rebuilding after the war?
The South
40. What impact did the war have on the South’s African American population?
Many migrated North and West
41. Why did the Confederate army lose the battle at Petersburg, VA?
They had no replacement troops.
42. How did African Americans support the war effort?
After the Militia Act, African American men fought for the Union
43. What did Lincoln want to accomplish before he announced the Emancipation
Proclamation?
A major Union military victory
44. The Ten Percent Plan related to ten percent of a state’s _____.
Voters to take a loyalty oath to the Union
45. What event led the House of Representatives to impeach President Johnson?
Johnson’s attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
46. During Reconstruction, what did the Ku Klux Klan try to do?
Used violence to prevent freed people from voting.
47. What was Lincoln’s first goal for Reconstruction?
To reunify the nation
48. What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson?
The House impeached the President but the Senate failed to remove him.
49. What did the Enforcement Act of 1870 make illegal?
The use of force to prevent citizens from voting
50. What was on success of Reconstruction?
The introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the South