Civil War and Reconstruction
Jeopardy Review
What legislative act inspired
abolitionist Harriet Beecher
Stowe to write Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
The
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Stephen Douglas and Lewis
Cass advocated this method
for determining the status of
slavery in the territories.
Popular
Sovereignty
This legislative act repealed the
Missouri Compromise.
 The
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The first practical test of
popular sovereignty happened
in this territory in 1855.
Kansas
What laws required northern
states to assist in the return of
runaway slaves to their
owners in the South?
Fugitive
Slave Laws
Following passage of the KansasNebraska Act in 1854, Conscience
Whigs, Free Soilers, and antislavery Democrats formed this
new political party.
The
Republican Party
This Supreme Court decision
ruled that slavery could not be
banned in the U.S. because doing
so violated the 5th Amendment
right to property.
 Dred
Scott v. Sandford
In which western territory did a
mini-civil war take place in
1856?
Kansas
This organization sent antislavery settlers from New
England to Kansas in 1855.
 New
England Emigrant Aid Society
For what incident was Preston
Brooks notorious?
The
beating of Senator Charles
Sumner on the floor of the
Senate
Who were the two candidates
from the divided Democratic
party in the 1860 election?
 John
C. Breckenridge
 Stephen Douglas
This candidate won 39.8% of the
popular vote in the 1860 election,
enough to put him over the top
without even being on the ballot
in the South.
Abraham
Lincoln
This was the last ditch effort to
prevent a civil war.
Crittenden
Compromise
Who was the President of the
Confederate States of America
and what city was the
Confederate capital?
Jefferson
Davis
Richmond, VA
Where did the Civil War begin
and on what date?
Fort
Sumter, South Carolina
April 12, 1861
On whose property did the
first true battle of the Civil War
begin?
Wilmer
McLean
This battle dispelled any
hopes that the war would be
over quickly.
 First
Bull Run / Manassas
Who did Lincoln accuse of
having “a case of the slows?”
General
George B. McClellan
What four states were known
as the border states?
Missouri
Kentucky
Maryland
Delaware
In the Civil War, with which
side did the European ruling
classes sympathize?
The
Confederacy
After which Civil War battle
were African Americans
allowed to join the Union
Army?
Antietam
This battle was important
because the outcome cooled
any European desire to enter
the war in favor of the
Confederacy.
Antietam
Who, specifically, did Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation
free?
 All
slaves in states or territories
participating in rebellion against the U.S.
What was the 54th
Massachusetts Regiment an
example of?
 An
all-black infantry regiment
This European power recognized
the Union blockade of the South,
mostly because it viewed
breaking it as a bad precedent for
its own use of blockades as a
weapon.
 Great
Britain
Whom did Lincoln finally
choose to lead the Union
Army after a series of
ineffective generals?
Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant
In what Virginia town was the
cease-fire agreement signed
between Lee and Grant?
Appomatox
Courthouse
Who did the Democratic Party
run against Abraham Lincoln
in the Presidential election of
1864?
General
George B. McClellan
Which amendment to the U.S.
Constitution abolished
slavery?
The
Thirteenth Amendment
What secret society was
formed in the South to prevent
African Americans from
exercising their newly won
rights as citizens?
The
Ku Klux Klan
Which amendment to the U.S.
Constitution granted African
Americans the right to vote?
The
Fifteenth Amendment
Who succeeded Abraham
Lincoln as President of the
U.S.?
Andrew
Johnson
Which Civil War battle was
considered to be the turning
point of the war?
Gettysburg
During what years did the Civil
War take place?
1861
- 1865
Which political faction was
strongly in favor of fighting the
war and punishing the South?
The
Radical Republicans
What did Lincoln want to do
after the war to soldiers who
fought for the Confederacy?
Pardon
them
What amendment to the U.S.
Constitution granted
citizenship to African
Americans?
Fourteenth
Amendment
Who won the Presidential
Election of 1868?
Ulysses
S. Grant
What is the term used to
describe the process of
putting the Union back
together again after the war?
Reconstruction
What term was used to
describe White Southerners
who supported
Reconstruction?
Scalawags
Of which amendment was
ratification required for a Southern
state to re-enter the Union under
the Reconstruction Act?
 Fourteenth
Amendment
Which party typically “waved
the bloody shirt” as an
emotional campaign appeal?
 The
Republicans
This Radical Republican from
PA was strongly in favor of harsh
reconstruction and supported the
impeachment of Johnson.
 Thaddeus
Stevens
Against which amendment did
Johnson campaign in his
“swing around the circle?”
 The
Fourteenth Amendment
This organization was formed to
assist displaced blacks and
whites in the South at the end
of the Civil War.
 The
Freedmen’s Bureau
Republicans relied on these
voters to carry the states of
the south.
 Freed
blacks
For what reason did the House
vote to impeach Johnson?
 Violation
of the Tenure of Office Act
This president’s administration
was notorious for its
connections to scandal.
 Grant
The presidential election in
this year (no, not 2000!) was
marked by widespread voter
fraud by both parties.
 1876
In what year did the military
occupation of the South by the
Union army end?
 1877
In order to maintain a black
workforce in the South following
the war, most Southern states
passed these laws meant to
control the freedmen.
 Black
Codes
This term was applied to tenant
farmers who were provided with
land to farm in return for a
portion of the proceeds from
the crops.
 Sharecropper