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Civil War Concepts
Civil War Concepts from Journal
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who invented the steel-tilled plow? | John Deere |
| Who sets the rules for baseball? | Alexander Cartwright |
| Where does the world's first public railroad open? | England |
| Who provides the labor for factories? | immigrants |
| What is the northern economy based upon? | industry |
| What is the movement called when people start to speak about their working conditions? | Labor Movement |
| What do they try to do during the Labor Movement? | get kids out of the workplaces |
| What kind of groups form during the Labor Movement? | labor unions |
| What is the south? | cotton kingdom |
| Where is most of the cotton going? | England |
| Who do we give credit to for bringing cotton into factories? | Eli Whitney |
| Why aren't there many factories in the South? | lack of capital |
| Where does the South get their manufactured products? | North, England |
| Why didn't most of the South have slaves? | Still fought for the institution they believed in |
| Why did the slave codes get more severe? | slave rebellions |
| When was the Civil War? | 1861-1865 |
| Who wanted complete abolition and thought slavery was a sin? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Who was president for most of the 30s? | FDR |
| Who was the spokesman for the South and where was he from? | John C. Calhoun; SC |
| What was the dividing line between the North and the South? | Ohio River |
| Where was Lincoln from? | Kentucky |
| What did Lincoln call for? | restriction on slavery |
| What was the last straw for the South? | Lincoln's election |
| What did Lincoln want to do that made the South mad? | get rid of slavery |
| What were people from Kansas called who supported freedom? | J-Hawks |
| What did Kansas become known because of its bloody fights? | Bleeding Kansas |
| Who didn't really support secession, but was from the South? | Jefferson Davis |
| Who was the VP of the Confederacy? | Alexander Stevenson |
| What made Harriet Beecher Stowe so distinct? | she was a Northerner |
| Who was the Great Compromiser? | Henry Clay |
| Which compromise kept us from the Civil War for 10 years? | Compromise of 1850 |
| What event reopens the issue of slavery? | Dred Scott Decision |
| Where was Robert E. Lee from? | Virginia |
| Who was Lincoln's first choice for general of the Union Army? Who did he then resort to? | Lee; McClellan |
| In the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack, which was the Confederate ship? Which had the better design? | Merrimack; Monitor |
| What was a con for the Monitor? | close to the water |
| Who won the battle between the two ironclads? | Confederacy |
| What was the first combat submarine during the Civil War? | Hunley |
| What was the Gettysburg Address dedicate the battlefield to? | graveyard |
| Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation after the Battle of Antietam? | he wanted to issue it after a victory |
| Name 2 states that didn't join the Confederacy, but were slave states. | Missouri & Kentucky |
| What happened in the year 1876? | 100 year mark & presidential election |
| What were the terms of the Ten Percent Plan? | 10% of the state's white males swore loyalty, they could rejoin the Union |
| What did the Radical Republicans want to do to the south? | punish them and treat them like a conquered nation |
| What happens to Booth after he shoots Lincoln? | jumps off stage, breaks his leg, gets caught and is shot and buried secretly |
| What do the black codes do? | put slaves back to bondage |
| What did the KKK really want to do to the blacks? | stop them from voting |