Civil War 1
Looting houses, burning fields, and killing livestock is an example of what military strategy?
Total War
Confederate military general?
Robert E. Lee
President after Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
Officially and legally ended slavery
13th amendment
10 % of State’s voters must pledge loyalty to the US and support emancipation
Lincolns 10% plan
Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?
Fort Sumter
Union military General?
Ulysses S. Grant
Holiday commemorating the day the last slaves were freed in America.
Former Confederate soldiers who terrorize Black people across the South
Ku Klux Klan
Name for Southerner who supports the Union
Scalawag
Military plan to to surround the Confederacy and squeeze it to death
Anaconda Plan
Location of surrender of Southern forces?
Appomattox
Practice of many former slaves working on plantations
Sharecropping
Helps former slaves with schools, getting jobs & housing
Freedmens Bureau
Guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the US
14th Amendment
This proclamation declared all enslaved people living in Confederate states free.
Emancipation Proclomation
The North had several key advantages early in the war. What was one?
Total population, total farmland, factories, production of manufactured goods, firearms production, miles of railroad track.
Marks the segregation of races
Jim Crow Era
Northerners who move south to make money
Carpetbaggers
Guaranteed all free men the right to vote
15th amendment
Horrendous Civil War battle that lasted for 3 days.
Battle of Gettysburg
Where did most Civil War battles take place?
The South, especially in Virginia and Tennesse
50% of voters must take the oath of allegiance
Wade Davis Bill
Marked the end of Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans
Black Codes