Major Events pt 1
Civil War
Life After the Civil War
Reconstruction
Miscellaneous
100
The two major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil were what?
Gettysburg and Antietam.
100
The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in what area?
Education
100
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to do what?
ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
100
In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised what?
rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union.
100
During the Civil War, most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma supported who?
supported the Confederacy.
200
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves where?
Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States.
200
The Civil War was a women's war in what ways?
as men left for war, women gained new job opportunities in government, military demand for shoes and clothing drew women into industrial employment, women aided men on the battlefront as spies or by posing as male soldiers, women were able to professionalize nursing.
200
For blacks, emancipation meant what?
the ability to search for lost family, the right to get married, the opportunity to form their own churches, the opportunity for an education.
200
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed what?
citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.
200
What advantages did the South have in the Civil War? The North?
South: defensive war, better military leaders, better trained soldiers North: higher population, more resources, more industry
300
After the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included what tactics?
cutting the Confederacy in half by seizing the Mississippi River, marching through Georgia and then the Carolinas, blockading the Confederacy's coastline, liberating the slaves to undermine the southern economy.
300
As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of
more talented military leaders.
300
The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do what?
act as a kind of welfare agency, provide food, clothing, and medical care to slave refugees, settle former slaves with forty-acre tracts confiscated from Confederates, provide education that would help close the gap between blacks and whites.
300
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when what happened?
the last federal troops were removed in 1877.
300
Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because of what?
It gave equal rights to African American males but not to women.
400
What strategy did Grant use to defeat Lee's army?
Used his larger military to wait out the war, was okay with a lot of northern soldiers dying since he had a large military
400
What states joined the Union after the Civil War started?
Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas
400
From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi were known as the Exodusters. What were they?
black freedman who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas.
400
Under congressional Reconstruction, Southern states were required to do what?
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, give freed slaves the right to vote.
400
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as what?
a secret terrorist organization.
500
What were the conditions in the South after the end of the Civil War?
Infrastructure is destroyed, economy is destroyed, no workforce for farms
500
The Civil War resulted in what?
expanded federal powers of taxation, the end of nullification and secession, the creation of the first federal social welfare agency, the end of slavery
500
The Black Codes provided for what?
a ban on jury service by blacks, a bar on blacks from renting land, punishment of blacks for idleness, fines for blacks who jumped labor contracts.
500
What were the functions provided by the black Union League?
Educating blacks in their civic duties, Campaigning for Republican candidates, Helping blacks migrate from the South to the North, Building black churches and schools
500
Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of what?
intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.
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