U.S. History Florida EOC Review 20-
25 Questions and Answers
John Brown's Raid - ANSWER✔✔-Abolitionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal in Harpers
Ferry, Virginia, hoping to inspire local slaves to join a revolution that would destroy slavery in the
south. It failed.
Missouri Compromise - ANSWER✔✔-1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a
slave state and main as a free state and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of
the 36*30' latitude.
Compromise of 1850 - ANSWER✔✔-Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as
a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law.
Dred Scott Decision - ANSWER✔✔-A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four
year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri
Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal
court because he was property, not a citizen.
Kansas Nebraska Act - ANSWER✔✔-1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory in Kansas and
Nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
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,Bleeding Kansas - ANSWER✔✔-Term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery
and antislavery supporters in Kansas.
Anaconda Plan - ANSWER✔✔-Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading
seaports and controlling the Mississippi River.
Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER✔✔-Decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved
people living in Confederate states still in rebellion.
Reconstruction - ANSWER✔✔-Program implemented by the federal government between 1865
and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to
the Union.
14th Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Rights of Citizens (Equal Protection)
13th Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Freed all Slaves
15th Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-African Americans have the right to vote and Congress and
enforce it by passing laws.
Radical Republicans - ANSWER✔✔-Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African
Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South.
Scalawag - ANSWER✔✔-Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican Party
after the Civil War.
Freedman's Bureau - ANSWER✔✔-Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white
farmers in the South after the Civil War.
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, Carpetbagger - ANSWER✔✔-Negative term for Northerners who moved to the South after the
Civil War.
Sharecropping - ANSWER✔✔-System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in
return for a share of the crop.
Debt Peonage - ANSWER✔✔-A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a
debt to the employer.
Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER✔✔-Organization that promoted hatred and discrimination against
specific ethnic and religious groups.
Black Codes - ANSWER✔✔-Laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities.
Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER✔✔-Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWER✔✔-A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered
segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Reservation System - ANSWER✔✔-The system that allotted land with designated boundaries to
Native American tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Severalty Act
of 1887. Within these reservations, most land was used communally, rather than owned individually.
The U.S. government encouraged and sometimes violently coerced Native Americans to stay on the
reservations at all times.
Transcontinental Railroad - ANSWER✔✔-Rail link between the eastern and the western United
States.
Pull Factor - ANSWER✔✔-Factors that attract people to a new location.
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25 Questions and Answers
John Brown's Raid - ANSWER✔✔-Abolitionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal in Harpers
Ferry, Virginia, hoping to inspire local slaves to join a revolution that would destroy slavery in the
south. It failed.
Missouri Compromise - ANSWER✔✔-1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a
slave state and main as a free state and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of
the 36*30' latitude.
Compromise of 1850 - ANSWER✔✔-Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as
a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law.
Dred Scott Decision - ANSWER✔✔-A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four
year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri
Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal
court because he was property, not a citizen.
Kansas Nebraska Act - ANSWER✔✔-1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory in Kansas and
Nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
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,Bleeding Kansas - ANSWER✔✔-Term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery
and antislavery supporters in Kansas.
Anaconda Plan - ANSWER✔✔-Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading
seaports and controlling the Mississippi River.
Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER✔✔-Decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved
people living in Confederate states still in rebellion.
Reconstruction - ANSWER✔✔-Program implemented by the federal government between 1865
and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to
the Union.
14th Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Rights of Citizens (Equal Protection)
13th Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-Freed all Slaves
15th Amendment - ANSWER✔✔-African Americans have the right to vote and Congress and
enforce it by passing laws.
Radical Republicans - ANSWER✔✔-Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African
Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South.
Scalawag - ANSWER✔✔-Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican Party
after the Civil War.
Freedman's Bureau - ANSWER✔✔-Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white
farmers in the South after the Civil War.
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, Carpetbagger - ANSWER✔✔-Negative term for Northerners who moved to the South after the
Civil War.
Sharecropping - ANSWER✔✔-System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in
return for a share of the crop.
Debt Peonage - ANSWER✔✔-A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a
debt to the employer.
Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER✔✔-Organization that promoted hatred and discrimination against
specific ethnic and religious groups.
Black Codes - ANSWER✔✔-Laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities.
Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER✔✔-Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWER✔✔-A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered
segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Reservation System - ANSWER✔✔-The system that allotted land with designated boundaries to
Native American tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Severalty Act
of 1887. Within these reservations, most land was used communally, rather than owned individually.
The U.S. government encouraged and sometimes violently coerced Native Americans to stay on the
reservations at all times.
Transcontinental Railroad - ANSWER✔✔-Rail link between the eastern and the western United
States.
Pull Factor - ANSWER✔✔-Factors that attract people to a new location.
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