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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the compromise of 1850? | Agreements propose by Henry clay to have states enter the union as Free states |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Act? | Law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves |
| What was the impact of "Uncle Toms' Cabin" and who wrote it? | Harriet Beecher Stowe informed the world of the cruelty of slavery |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and what did it lead to? | Law that allowed voters in KS and NE to choose whether to allow slavery; led to divided state, bleeding Kansas and Pottawatomie Massacre |
| What were the results of the Dred Scott decision? | Slaves considered property, Missouri compromise ruled slavery was unconstitutional-congress can’t ban slavery in federal territory |
| What did Lincoln and Douglass say about the future of slavery during the Lincoln-Douglass debates? | Lincoln thought slavery was wrong |
| Who was John Brown? | Abolitionist |
| What was the result, for the South, of Lincoln's election in 1860? | Breckinridge got the majority of the votes as the southern states seceded |
| Who became President of the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis |
| Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired? | Fort Sumter |
| What were the Southern and Northern advantages and disadvantages? | North- more soldiers, more factories, more efficient transportation and $ South-only needed to defend themselves |
| What were the war strategies for the North and the South? | North-navel blockade, control of MS River, basically cut south’s economy South-gain alliance w/ Britain |
| Why was the Emancipation Proclamation issued and whom did it cover? | Freed slaves in areas rebelling against the union |
| Why was Gettysburg known as the turning point battle of the Civil War? | After a victory, it rebuilt the unions will to fight |
| What is total war and who used it? | General Shearman-type of war in which an army destroys its opponent’s ability to fight by targeting military as well as civilian and economic resources |
| Where did Lee surrender to Grant? | Appomattox courthouse on April 9, 1865 |
| What was Reconstruction? | Process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern sates in the absence of slavery |
| What did the 13th Amendment do? | Mad slavery illegal throughout the US |
| Lincoln's Assassination-Who, where, and why? | April 14, 1865, ford’s theater in Washington; John Wikes Booth who was hostile to Lincoln’s policies |
| What did the 14th and 15th Amendments do? | 14th gave full right of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United Sates, except American Indians, 15th- gave African American men the right to vote |
| Who were the carpetbaggers? | Republicans from north who moved to south during reconstruction to find new life |
| What did the KKK do? | Used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining civil rights |
| What were Jim Crow Laws and what did they do? | Laws that enforced segregation in southern states |
| What were the reservations and the Dawes Act? | Split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indian and promised them citizenship |
| Where did Wounded Knee end? | US Indian war on plains |
| Who were the major participants at the Battle of the Little Big Horn? Who won? | US soldiers and Sioux worriers (winner) |
| How did the Transcontinental Railroad change the settlement and development of the west? | Connected East to West, caused economic growth and population in West. Encouraged settlement by transportation and selling land to settlers |
| How did the open range benefit ranchers? | They didn’t own much land so it gave them access to scarce water and ownership of the land around it |
| What caused the decline of the Cattle Kingdom? | Large number of cattle roamed Great Plains also cattle had eaten much of the Prairie Grass |
| What was the Homestead Act? | Law passed by congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers |
| What challenges were faced by Great Plains farmers? | Weather conditions, droughts, and tough sod |
| In what industries did the Second Industrial Revolution take place? | Manufacturing industries |
| Who were Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller? | Carnegie- business man who invested in iron mills and bridge building business Rockefeller- invested in old industry |
| What were some of Edison's more famous inventions? | Electricity and phone |
| What were the goals of early labor unions? | Reduce cost of laborers |
| What was collective bargaining? | Process in which union leaders negotiate w/ employees on behalf of workers for better wages and working conditions |
| Why did people immigrate to the USA after the Civil War? | Job opportunities |
| Why did people react adversely to the New Immigrants? | Fear of their jobs being taken and would negatively affect American society |
| What were factory conditions like for adults and children? | Very difficult and harsh conditions |
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