Define
Battles
Amendments
Reconstruction
Primary Sources
100
Laws that limited the freedom of African Americans.
Black codes
100
What happened at Fort Sumter?
A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War
100
Made slavery illegal in all U.S. states and territories. Which amendment does this describe?
13th Amendment
100
Define reconstruction.
rebuilding the south
100
Who wrote the Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln
200
Define total war and give an example
is anything that can be done to individual participants of the war
200
Why is the Anaconda Plan important?
-This cartoon shows the North’s plan to cut off supplies to the South through naval blockades, a strategy called the Anaconda Plan.
200
This amendment describes which amendment?
15th amendment
200
Why were poll tax, literacy tests, and sharecropping established?
discriminate
200
Why does Lincoln never mention Gettysburg in his Address?
The fight for freedom than one battle
300
This is an example of...
Segregation
300
Why did Lincoln write and issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Antietam:
The battle ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
300
What does the vague wording tell us?
People can discrimate
300
How do we get "separate-but-equal"?
Plessy v Ferguson
300
What does Lincoln mean by a "new birth of freedom"? Who's freedom?
slaves--equality
400
Define cotton diplomacy. Does it work?
Cotton Diplomacy:
Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War
Did it work?
NOPE HAHA! The Cotton Diplomacy did not work as the South had hoped. Britain had large supplies of cotton, and it got more from India and Egypt.
400
What is the impact of the Gettysburg?
The Battle of Gettysburg: The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war’s turning point.
400
What is the 14th Amendment?
The 14th Amendment:
It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
400
Describe African American's involvement.
African Americans were the largest group of southern Republican voters.
During Reconstruction, 600 African Americans won elections to state legislatures.
What happened to representation?
As the most radical aspect of the so-called Radical Reconstruction period, the political activism of the Black community also inspired the most hostility from Reconstruction’s opponents. Southern whites—frustrated with policies giving formerly enslaved men the right to vote and hold office—increasingly turned to intimidation and violence as a means of reaffirming white supremacy.
400
Who will be free on the 1st of January 1863? Where?
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated (picked) part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority (power) thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress (put down) such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...."
enslaved people/ rebellious states
500
Describe the process of sharecropping.
500
Describe the Battle of Gettysburg--basic definition. What is the impact?
The Battle of Gettysburg: The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war’s turning point.
- IMPACT:
It was a turning point in the war.
The Union winning at Gettysburg helped to end the South’s search for foreign influence in the war.
Great Britain and France refused to aid the Confederacy.
The South’s cotton diplomacy failed.
500
Which of the following is wrong about the 14th Amendment?
A: All people born or naturalized within the United States, except Native Americans, are citizens
B: Citizens equal protection of the law
C: It banned former Confederate officials from holding state or federal offices
D: Congress did not have the power to enforce these laws
D
500
Describe the Plessy v Ferguson court case. What is the outcome?
Background: In 1892, Homer Plessy took a seat in the “whites only” car of a train in Louisiana. He was arrested, put on trial and convicted of violating Louisiana segregation law. Plessy argued that the law violated the 13th Amendment.
Court’s Ruling: The Court ruled that the Louisiana “separate-but-equal” law was constitutional.
Why it Matters?: The case approved the idea of separate-but-equal facilities for people, equal led to segregation in trains, buses, schools, restaurants, and many other social institutions
This was overturned in 1954 with Brown v Board of Education
500
What happens in 100 days?
"...first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance (following) with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit…"
100 days to rejoin the Union