Civil War
Had the advantage of established banks, better finances, more people, more factories and access to more weapons.
What was the Union?
Attack that started the Civil War
What was Fort Sumter?
This changed the focus of the war from keeping the Union together to ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
granting of free land in the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act?
School that had the slogan, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"?
What was the Carlisle School?
Had the advantage of knowing the terrain and fighting a defensive battle.
What was the Confederacy?
This battle took place over multiple days, was extremely bloody and was the last time the South ever went on the offensive.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This organization was formed before the war ended and attempted to start the process of integrating former slaves into Southern society.
Act that called for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad
What was the Pacific Railway Act?
Person who successfully forced Custer and his men from their territory as they attempted to encroach onto Sioux land?
Who was Sitting Bull?
Plan put forth by Winifred Scott; northern strategy in the war.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
General that was hired and fired twice by Lincoln
Who was General George McClellan?
these quickly developed to entrap freedmen and women post war.
What were Black Codes?
system of forcing poor black and white citizens into "renting" land and working the land for wealthy land owners.
What is sharecropping?
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote this book to expose endless harms to Indigenous people throughout US History
what were the border states?
This battle was a turning point as it was enough of a "victory" for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Greatest achievement of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is education/building schools?
What is convict leasing?
Name of policy that allowed the end of reservations - and the move to individual plots of land?
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
Union strategy that included a slash and burn journey toward the end of the war.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
This was a hard fought battle that was w a turning point in the war as it divided the Confederacy.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
official end of Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
What set up public colleges for the purpose of advancing agricultural knowledge and understanding?
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act?
Who was the person who analyzed the role of the Frontier in our country's developent after the Census deemed it no longer a Frontier.
Who was Frederick Jackson Turner?