Unit 5: Reform, Civil War and Reconstruction
1. Name the compromise that determined the future of slavery in the new states after 1820.
2. Name the system of internal improvements designed to unite the nation.
3. Who was the promoter of the internal improvements?
4. What was the name of the covered wagons that many people used for travel?
5. What canal system was built to aid in transportation in the northeast?
6. Who won the election of 1824?
7. How was this person chosen to be President?
8. Who won the election of 1828?
9. Why was he called the “Common Man’s President”?
10. What is the practice of giving jobs as rewards for service called?
11. What state nearly left the Union because of the high tariff of 1828?
12. What law allowed the government to move the Cherokee?
13. How did they resist this law?
14. What was the forced migration of this group called?
15. Why did Jackson “kill” the National Bank?
16. What political party arose to oppose Jackson and his followers?
17. Which President died soon after taking office?
18. Which Vice President became the first to become President?
19. Which reformer promoted free public education?
20. What two abolitionists published newspapers that opposed slavery?
21. What was the movement to ban alcohol called?
22. Name the convention where women stated their belief in equal rights.
23. Who were the two organizers of this convention?
24. Where did people move to because of Robert Fulton and McCormick’s agricultural improvements?
25. What concept was associated with the people who opposed immigrants and Catholics?
26. What political party grew from this concept?
27. What is the idea that the United States should expand across the continent?
28. Who settled the area of Utah?
29. Which person led the settlers to Utah?
30. Name the route that many settlers took to go west.
31. What territory is associated with the slogan “54-40 or Fight”?
32. Name the famous battle where the Mexican Army defeated the Texans?
33. When did Texas become a state?
34. Who did the United States go to war with in 1846?
35. What lands became part of the United States after the war?
36. Name the idea that the people should vote to determine the future of slavery.
37. Name the network of safe houses & trails to help escaped slaves.
38. What law was passed to help Southern states captured escaped slaves?
39. Name the book that depicted the evils of slavery in the south.
40. Who was the author of this influential book?
41. In what state did pro-slavery and abolitionist groups actually shed blood?
42. What Supreme Court case made slavery legal all over the nation?
43. What law did the case declare unconstitutional?
44. Name the participants in the famous 1858 Illinois Senate race.
45. Who won this election?
46. Name the idea that slavery can’t exist without supporting laws.
47. Name the abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry.
48. What new state raised the issue of slavery again in 1850?
49. How did that territory become a state so quickly?
50. Name the agreement that solved the problem temporarily.
51. Who won the election of 1860?
52. Why did southern states secede?
53. What was the Union strategy called?
54. What strategy did the Confederacy try?
55. Name two advantages of the Union during the war.
56. Name one advantage of the Confederates.
57. How was the Civil War an example of a modern war?
58. What new types of weapons were used for the first time during the Civil War?
59. What two iron-clad ships fought at the Battle of Hampton Roads?
60. What was the substitution policy?
61. What role did African Americans play in the war effort?
62. What did Clara Barton do?
63. What was the starting point of the Civil War?
64. Name the first real battle of the war.
65. What was the single deadliest day of the war?
66. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
67. When did it take effect?
68. Who was the leading General of the Confederates?
69. What was the turning point of the war?
70. Name the charge on the last day of this battle.
71. In what year did this battle take place?
72. What battle effectively split the south?
73. Name the General that led a destructive March through the South.
74. When did the war end?
75. Where did the war end?
76. Who surrendered to whom?
77. What was the name of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
78. What happened to President Lincoln just five days after the end of the war?
79. Who committed the crime?
80. Who became President?
81. What is the 13th Amendment?
82. What group wanted to punish the South for the war?
83. Identify the two key components of Congress’ Reconstruction Plan.
84. What is the 14th Amendment?
85. What were the southerners who supported Reconstruction called?
86. What were the Northerners who came south to help in Reconstruction called?
87. What law did President Johnson violate that led to his impeachment?
88. What was the 15th Amendment?
89. Where did many slaves go after the war?
90. What are tenant farmers?
91. What are sharecroppers?
92. What was the job of the Freedman’s Bureau?
93. What was significant about 40 acres and a mule?
94. Name two scandals that affected the Grant Presidency.
95. Who ran for President in the 1876 election?
96. How was the 1876 election won?
97. How does reconstruction end?
98. What were laws restricting the activities of African Americans called?
99. What is the separation of the races called?
100. What are Jim Crow laws?