Transcript Civil War Jeopardy

Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Conflicts Leading
Up to the Civil
War
The Civil War
After the Civil
War Ended
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What is a free state?
A state is which slavery was
not allowed.
What is an abolitionist?
An abolitionist was
is someone who
wanted to end
slavery.
What does reconstruction
mean?
Reconstruction means to rebuild.
What is segregation? (Answer
must include two examples.)
Segregation is the practice of keeping
people apart based on their race or culture.
What is an amendment?
An amendment is a change to the Constitution.
What is a slave state?
A slave state is a
state in which
slavery is allowed
by law.
What word means to
withdraw?
Secede
What is a blockade?
A blockade is an area
that is cut off to keep
people or supplies
from going in or out.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau
and who benefited from it?
The Freedman’s Bureau was a
government group that was
created to help freed African
Americans find food, clothing,
and an education.
What is a sharecropper?
Explain the different
between a sharecropper
and a slave.
A sharecropper is a person who rents land,
farms it, and pay the landowner with part
of the crops grown.
Who was the president of the
Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Explain what the
Underground Railroad
was.
The Underground Railroad was a
series of homes/routes that slaves
stayed at when they were trying
to escape to the North.
Explain what the North
and South were
disagreeing over
involving taxes.
The North wanted the Southerners to pay high
taxes on imported goods. They were hoping this
would force the Southerners to buy the goods
they were producing.
The Southerners wanted no taxes on imported
items because they wanted to ship goods in and
out and trade with Great Britain. They didn’t
think the Northerners should dictate where they
bought manufactured goods from.
Explain how and why the
Confederacy formed.
The Confederacy formed when many
Southern states seceded from the
Union. They seceded, elected their own
president, and began to make their own
rules/laws because they were very
unhappy with the Union and President
Lincoln for outlawing slavery and
raising taxes on imported goods.
Explain how the economies and cities were
different in the North than in the South.
North: The economy in the North was based
on manufacturing goods. They had very
large cities and more people. Most people
worked in factories. The North also had
very developed transportation systems.
South: The economy in the South was based
largely on farming. Most of the farms were
very large and they grew cash crops. They
had very few large cities and the
transportation systems in the South were not
developed at all. No transportation made
the transporting of goods from one place to
another very difficult.
What were the dates of the
Civil War?
1861-1865
Explain what an ironclad
ship was and how was this
helpful during fighting?
Please give us the name of
one of the ironclad ships
mentioned in the book.
An ironclad ship was a wooden ship
that was covered with iron slabs in
many places. This prevented cannons
from setting fire to the ships, and it
also caused any bullets/gunfire to
ricochet off. They were much safer
during battle.
Two of the ironclad ships were: the
Monitor, the Merrimack, or the CSS
Neuse
How many North
Carolinians fought for the
Union and how many
fought for the Confederacy
during the war? (Don’t
forget to mention how
many were slaves.)
Confederate soldiers from N.C.: 120,000
Union soldiers from N.C.: 15, 000
Of the 15,000 Union soliders from N.C.,
approximately 5,000 were enslaved African
Americans.
What was the largest Civil War
battle in North Carolina? What
was so significant about it?
The Battle at Bentonville was
the largest Civil War battle in
N.C. It was so significant
because General Johnston and
the Confederate soldiers had a
surprise attack on the Union
soldiers and Sherman.
Name several problems
fugitive slaves faced while
traveling on the
Underground Railroad.
•Risk of being caught by slave
hunter~ physical punishment
•Sickness
•Elements of nature~ freezing,
heatstroke
•Poisonous snakes
•Wild animals
•Starvation
What happened during the
reconstruction period?
The Southern states had
to rebuild their
government and towns
that were destroyed
during the war.
What was the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Who wrote it and when was
it signed?
The Emancipation Proclamation,
signed in 1863 by President
Lincoln, was a document that
freed the enslaved people in the
Southern states.
What was life like for freed African
Americans after the Civil War ended?
(Be specific.)
Life after the Civil War was over was very,
very harsh for the African Americans.
They had no education, which meant they could
not get decent jobs.
They had no money, which meant they could
not buy land or move.
They had no clothing and barely enough food
to support their families.
Explain what the
Thirteenth Amendment
stated.
Thirteenth Amendment:
Outlawed slavery
Explain two things the
Southerners did after the
Civil War in an attempt to
still have control and more
power than the African
Americans.
1. Black Codes-- This set of rules took away all
rights that the African Americans had. (Right to
vote, own land, get an education, etc.)
2. Segregation-- This was the practice of keeping
people keeping apart based on race and culture.