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Unit_3_Exam_09
Civil War and Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. |
| tenent farming | farming on which the farmer resides on and farms land that is owned by someone else |
| Second Great Awakening | A period of renewed religious fervor among Christians in the United States. |
| Indian Removal Act | A law in 1830 that forced the resettlement of Indian tribes that living east of the Mississippi River. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The gathering of supporters of women’s rights that launched the women’s suffrage movement. |
| spoils system | The practice of giving appointed positions in government to people loyal to the party in power. |
| Missouri Compromise | Law passed in 1820 that admitted Missouri as a slave state, Main as a free state, and set the boundary between free and slave territory at 36*30’. |
| Dred Scott decision | Supreme Court ruling that legalized slavery in the territories and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Measure passed to allow California into the Union as a free state and to divide the rest of the Southwest into Utah and New Mexico territories. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | A law passed in 1854 that established popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories. |
| John Brown's raid | Led by an abolitionist in 1856 in hopes of seizing the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia – in order to distribute weapons to slaves to spark revolt. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | A law passed to allow the seizure and return of slaves who escaped into another state or a federal territory. |
| Fort Sumter | The site in Charleston, South Carolina at which the first battle of the Civil War took place. |
| Anaconda Plan | The Union's plan to surround the Confederacy by using a naval blockade, taking over the Mississippi River and invading Richmond, VA. |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | Example of total war in which Sherman's army destroyed any military goods, rail tracks and telegraph lines between Atlanta and Savannah. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Slaves in the Confederacy were freed. Few were actually freed and it served as motivation for the North to win the war. |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | All black regiment of the Union army that helped black soldiers win acceptance. |
| What was the biggest difference between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans? | The Federalists favored a strong central government with power to control the states. |
| What were some of the results of industrialization? | - Increased productivity - Shift to a market economy - Spread of the factory system |
| What was the main goal of abolitionists? | To end slavery |
| What were some of the characteristics of the North before 1860? | -Urban-Larger population-More Industrail |
| What were some of the characteristics of the South before 1860? | Rural, Agricultural |
| What was the largest cause of death during the Civil War? | infection and disease |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slaverey in all states |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to all former slaves |
| 15th Amendment | gave black males the right to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws legalizing racial segregation in the Southern States |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that established "seperate but equal" (legal segregation) |
| debt peonage | a system of servitude in which the debtors are forces to work for the person to whom they owe money until htey pay off the debt |
| sharecropping | a form of tenent farming where the land owner provides both the land bu also money for supplies |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement to ....Ended Reconstruction |
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