The Road to War
These individuals people in southern states they should secede from the Union because their farms would be taken by the federal government.
Fire Eaters
He was the commander of the Union Army during the Civil War
Ulysses S Grant
The U.S. offered to buy this major port city from France.
New Orleans
Many Mississippians became ______________ after the war because they were already skilled at the practice of farming.
sharecroppers
Many southerners feared that after the war, they would be ___________
disenfranchised
This Legislative Act called for states to be admitted in pairs (one free and the other slave) in an attempt to maintain a balance between free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
He was commander of the Confederacy (South) during the Civil War
Robert E Lee
After the Civil War was over, the south had to be rebuilt or "reconstructed" because many homes and businesses (most infrastructure in fact) had been ____________.
Destroyed
Rutherford B Hayes made a deal with southern states that if they agreed to support him in the upcoming presidential election, he would remove federal __________ from the south.
troops
President Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was more focused on restoring the _________ than it was on punishing the _____________.
Union; south
According to the Missouri Compromise, any new state admitted to the Union above the _______ parallel line must be admitted as a free state.
36
This is the official site of surrender (Lee surrenders to Grant) to end the fighting (eventually) of the Civil War.
Appomatox Court house in Virginia.
After the Civil War, the south's ____________, that had existed prior to the war, had effectively been eliminated.
Wealth
Many freedmen were stuck on southern ___________ after the war- even as free men- because they lacked _____________ or skills to search for alternative employment.
plantations; education
These were laws created in southern states to severely limit the rights and freedoms of newly freed blacks living there.
Black Codes (Later...Jim Crow Laws would be created for the same purpose)
Slave who sued his owner for his freedom after he was transported into a free northern state....his case ended in the Supreme Court when Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Tanney delivered the court's verdict against this man because he was not a citizen and was also considered property under the 5th Amendment.
Dred Scott
The revised MS state constitution of 1832 removed _________ owning requirement for running for public office and established that the governor of the state must reside (live) in ___________.
land; Jackson
Many southern men were either killed or __________ during the war, so they wereunable to work.
injured
What eventually happened to privately owned land in the south that was seized (taken ) by the federal government after the war.
Returned to original owners (after they met requirements including taking an oath of loyalty to the U.S.)
This Reconstruction Act divided the South into ____ _______ districts after the war was over.
5 military
This was the practice of each geographic area of the country only promoting what was best for their respective region.
Sectionalism
This man was President of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy)
Jefferson Davis
Approximately how many slaves were emancipated after the Civil War in the state of MS?
400,000
The attitudes of most whites in MS after the Civil War was that they did not want newly freed blacks participating at all in the ____________ of the state.
politics
Define the following (tell what they "did")
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
13- Abolished slavery
14- granted universal citizenship
15- provided suffrage to black men