FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 5 APUSH VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 5 APUSH VOCAB

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Question 1: Freedman'sBureau

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created near end of Civil War, federal agency was designed to assist freed slaves in their integration into American citizenship

Question 2: Sharecropping

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a system for keeping blacks indebted to white landowners; most freed slaves had only agri. skills & were pressured into very uneven contracts w/ white landowners (they would rent land & have to give white dude most of their crop every year)

Question 3: HintonHelper

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southerner- wrote The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) & said that non-slave holding white were the ones who suffered most from slavery (supposed the Free-Soilers) book was banned in the south

Question 4: SojournerTruth

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born into slavery in NY but later emancipated-- she spoke out against slavery (gave the perspective of a black woman in her Ain't I a Woman speech)

Question 5: FrederickDouglass

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runaway slave; gained fame b/c of his autobiography depicting slavery (was an abolitionist (wrote in newspaper); unofficially advised Lincoln in Civil War; later became advocate for reconstruction and held various government positions

Question 6: NationalBankingAct

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law that gave the banking system the ability to sell gov't bonds & establish a uniform paper currency ("greenbacks") which helped wartime economy & re-est. the federal banking system ended by Jackson

(1836)

Question 7: AmericanAnti-SlaverySociety

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(founded 1833); most well-organized abolitionist group in US; had 150,000 members 1840 (1% of pop.); gained members through religious groups, philanthropic organizations, & free black population

Question 8: FreeSoilParty

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political party that (unlike Christian anti-slavery societies) was founded to express the economic damage that slavery was doing to white men by reducing their wages & their competitiveness on the market

Question 9: GeorgeBMcClellan

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first head general of Union army; frustrated Lincoln w/ his caution in pursuing the war; was finally fired by Lincoln (he then ran for president in 1864 on promises of making peace w/ south-- he lost to Lincoln)

Question 10: ClementLVallandighan

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Democratic OH ex-congressman who made very anti-gov't, anti-war speeches during Civil War; accused of treason, found guilty by military & imprisoned; Lincoln changed his sentence & banished him to the confederacy

Question 11: Kansas-NebraskaAct

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(1854) congress passed a law allowing KS to join the Union w/ slavery being decided w/ pop sovereignty-- pro- & anti-slavery groups descended and tried to skew the votes; result was the creation of two gov'ts & a statewide civil war known as "Bleeding KS"

Question 12: UlyssesSGrant

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rising from realative obscurity, Grant was eventually promoted to head general for Union military upon which he finally defeated Lee's army & ended the war; post war became Republican president during Reconstruction

Question 13: HarrietBeecherStowe

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from Cincinnati, Ohio; wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin (1856) that told of the suffering of slaves and called upon whites to do their Christian duty to end slavery

Question 14: JohnBrown

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an abolitionist who used religion and violence in his struggle against slavery;Bleeding Kansas, he attacked and killed pro-slavery men;3 years later led a failed attack on federal gun store in VA w/ intent of distributing guns and starting slave rebellion

Question 15: DredScott

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slave who sued for his freedom on land where his owner had taken him to live (where slavery was illegal); Scott vs Stanford (1857) case failed (Supreme Court said blacks were not US citizens & declared fed gov't had not const. right to ban slavery)

Question 16: BlackCodes

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post Civil War, Southern states passed laws to limit freed slaves rights in order to keep them available as a cheap labor for Southern economy; banned Blacks from: serving on juries, voting, renting/owning land; led to Civil Rights Act to protect rights

Question 17: Copperheads

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during Civil War, this was a nickname for the "Peace" Democrats willing to negotiate w/ the Confederacy to end the war, give them independence, & allow slavery to continue in the South

Question 18: JeffersonDavis

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longtime member of US senate from MS, became president of Confederacy during the war; attempted to steer a decentralized gov't during wartime b/c southerners thought federal power was a danger to their way of life (limited what he could do as president)

Question 19: 15thAmmendment

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(1870) gave all adult men (over 21) the constitutional right to vote

Question 20: ThaddeusStevens

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Radical Republican congressman (was abolitionist & reconstruction supporter); wanted to punish ex-confederates after the war & to ensure black rights; led the charge to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868

Question 21: PopularSovereignty

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concept first promoted by Democrat Lewis Case of MI said that the people should decide whether a place should allow slavery or not (previously Congress had decided)

Question 22: Lincoln-DouglasDebate

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(1858) Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas for his Senate seat; had a series of very thoughtful debates over the issue of slavery; tho Lincoln lost the senate; this est. his reputation as a possible future president

Question 23: MilitaryReconstructionAct

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(1867) divided South into 5 districts regulated by the miliary under direction of Congress; Radical Republicans created it b/c of frustration w/ the way Jackson was running Reconstruction-- led to big #s of blacks registering to vote in the South