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Civil War/Reconstruction
Flashcards that discuss the answers to my History benchmark. The benchmark is over the end of the Civil War and the Reconstruction period.
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8th Grade
05/20/2011

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What did Sojourner Truth advocate?
Definition
Women's Rights
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What was a major cause of slavery expansion in the South during the early 1800s?
Definition
The invention of the cotton gin.
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Explain the relationship between the women's rights and abolition movements.
Definition
Both movements fought for civil rights for minority groups.
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What is voter turnout?
Definition
The amount of people that vote.
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What type of people did Andrew Jackson support?
Definition
The "common man"
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Who was Nat Turner?
Definition
He was a black slave preacher that tried to lead a slave rebellion.
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What was the significance of Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Definition
It was a supreme court decision that said African-Americans weren't citizens, which caused an uproar.
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Define abolitionist.
Definition
Someone who is anti-slavery.
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Which region had more resources prior to the Civil War?
Definition
The North.
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Define casualty.
Definition
A wound or fatality in war.
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How did the Civil War affect the northern economy?
Definition
It became more industrialized.
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How did John Brown feel about slavery?
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He hated it; predicted a war would be fought over it.
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What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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A book writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe about slave life; a cause for the Civil War.
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Why did Southerners oppose Lincoln's 1860 election?
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They feared he would end their way of lifeby ending slavery.
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Define sectionalism.
Definition
When you put your personal region ahead of others.
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What did Lincoln think about slavery before the Civil War?
Definition
He wanted to stop it from spreading and predicted it would eventually cease to exist.
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What was Lincoln's primary goal when the Civil War began?
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To preserve the Union.
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Why was Gettysburn important?
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It was a turning point in the Civil War.
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How did Lincoln plan to treat the South after the Civil War?
Definition
Fairly and Equally.
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Describe the Emancipation Proclamation.
Definition
Lincoln's freeing of slaves in Confederate states only; January 1st, 1863.
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How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect African-Americans?
Definition
It encouraged them to join the Union Army.
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What happened in Appomattox Court House?
Definition
Lee surrendured to Grant.
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What did freedmen do after the Civil War?
Definition
Sharecropping and looked for family
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What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments have in common?
Definition
They all had to do with African-American's civil rights.
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What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?
Definition
It helped former slaves after the Civil War.
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What was Lincoln's primary goal after the Civil War?
Definition
It was to return Southern representation to Congress.
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What were black codes?
Definition
Ways to restrict black's rights in the South after the Civil War.
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Describe the impeachment process.
Definition
The House formally accuses the government official of improper conduct, then the Senate must hold a trial to decide on conviction or aquittal.
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What did the 15th Amdendment do and how was it avoided?
Definition
It gave black men the right to vote and violence at a local level was used to terrorize blacks instead of at a government level.
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Who were carpetbaggers and what did Southerners think of them?
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They were Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War. Southerners found them suspicious.
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What was the Compromise of 1877?
Definition
It ended Reconstruction with the election of Hayes and troops were removed from the South.
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Define federalism.
Definition
Shared Power.
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