Civil War 1
Who is President during the civil war?
Abraham Lincoln
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Confederacy General
Name one difference between the North and the South
Slavery was not allowed in the North and slavery was allowed in the South
This plan specified if a southern state could reenter into the Union with 10% of voters
What is the 10% Plan?
This amendment gave equal rights to African Americans
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Who treated wounded soldiers?
Women who supported the Civil War
Which side of the Civil War were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
A southern term for white southerners who supported Reconstruction.
Who were scalawags?
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land.
What was sharecropping?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
What side of the civil war called themselves the Union?
The Northern states that were still apart of the United States
What happened to the President of the North at the end of the civil war?
He was assasinated
who founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
Southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What were the Black Codes?
Established to aid former enslaved African Americans
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
President who was impeached
Andrew Johnson
Who won the battle at Gettysburg?
The Union
What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
What was one major reason the Southern States seceded?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
True or False :The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American history.
True
The period when 10 southern states were divided into 5 military districts run by generals.
What is Military Reconstruction?
True or False: Radical Republicans wanted to punish the Southern states.
True
Name one difference between the North and the South
The North relied on factories for their economy and the South relied on faming (cotton, tobacco)
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
A document made by president Lincoln stating slavery would be abolished in the southern states.
The General of the Union Army
What led to President Hayes being elected and federal troops being removed from the Southern states?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This group's plan required southern states to abolish slavery and give all men the right to vote.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Three laws passed by Congress in 1870-1871 to combat/ fight against violence against African Americans.
What are the Enforcement Acts?