Vocabulary
These members of the Republican Party left their Northern homes after the war and moved to the South.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
This stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is one advantage the South had over the North in the Civil War.
What is military leadership?
Or, what are better-trained soldiers?
This president became the first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The reason why Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This is the policy that means new territories wanting to enter the Union get to vote themselves on the issue of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Congress passed these 'Acts' were passed to help end the violence of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
What are the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871.
ONE of THREE parts of the North's three-part plan to win the Civil War.
What is a Naval Blockade of Southern ports?
What is splitting the Confederacy in two along the Mississippi River?
What is capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond?
This was the name of President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
What is the ten-percent plan?
This battle marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any person born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Compromise of 1850 directly led to this state being admitted as a free state.
What is California?
This battle put the North one step closer to cutting the Confederacy in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Reconstruction started in 1865 and ended in this year.
What is 1876 or 1877?
This group of Republicans in Congress did not support the presidential plans for reconstruction (because they think it was not enough).
Who are Radical Republicans?
This abolished slavery in ALL states in the US.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the bloodiest single-day battle in the Civil War, and in U.S. History.
What is Antietam?
Who is Grant?
This gave newly-freed African Americans food, housing, and clothing as well as created training and education programs.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This word means to leave or remove oneself (in the Civil War, it meant when a state removed themselves from the country).
What is secede or secession?
This Act gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
This man implemented 'total war' strategies in the Civil War because he wanted to break the will of the South.
Who is General Sherman?
This Republican won the election in 1876 despite losing the popular vote.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This Act weakened the Republican Party in the South by returning the right to vote and the right to hold office to many former Confederates.
What is the Amnesty Act?