Life in the War and Reconstruction
Student Presentations
Civil War: Battles
North and South Before the start of the Civil War
Vocabulary
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What was life like for a Union Soldier
What is Military service meant many months away from home and loved ones, long hours of drill, often inadequate food or shelter, disease, and many days spent marching on hot, dusty roads or in a driving rainstorm burdened with everything a man needed to be a soldier as well as baggage enough to make his life as comfortable as possible. There were long stretches of boredom in camp interspersed with moments of sheer terror experienced on the battlefield.
100
Describe Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is an anti-slavery novel, describe the life of a slave.
100
This was the 1st official battle of the Civil War?
What is Battle of Fort Sumter
100
Describe the North prior to the Civil War
What is factories, industries, free of slavery, government.
100
Define concede
What is surrender or yield (something that one possesses).
200
What was life like as a Confederate Soldier
What is unshaven, unkempt, gaunt, but tough from months of difficult living. The Rebel soldier’s woolen hat and uniform was grey, ragged form either having been worn too long, or having been “handed down” from a dead soldier. Confederate soldiers were poorly funded, and would sometimes have to wait months before being compensated for their service, which meant their families, left behind and waiting for support, would often go months without eating
200
Describe the Kansas - Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise
What is Kansas - Nebraska Act: created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory The Missouri Compromise: Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
200
Describe the Battle of Antietam
What is 1st battle on Union soil, bloodiest day
200
Describe the South prior to the Civil War
What is farming, plantations, slavery.
200
Define secede
What is withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
300
Describe the Emancipation Proclamation
What is freed the slaves.
300
What were the Lincoln - Douglas Debates?
What is From August 21 until October 15, Stephen Douglas battled Abraham Lincoln in face to face DEBATES around the state. The prize they sought was a seat in the Senate. Lincoln challenged Douglas to a war of ideas. Douglas took the challenge. The debates were to be held at 7 locations throughout Illinois. The fight was on and the nation was watching.
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What happened at Manassas?
What is Confederacy pushed the Union back
300
Why did the South claim to need slavery?
What is to help run the plantations
300
Define succession
What is the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.
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Define Reconstruction
What is the period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union
400
Describe Bleeding Kansas
What is During the Civil War, Kansas suffered the highest rate of fatal casualties of any Union state, largely because of its great internal divisions over the issue of slavery
400
What was the result of the Battle of Vicksburg?
What is the Union gained control of the Mississippi River.
400
Describe what life was like for the slaves, prior to the Civil War
What is harsh, horrible. They worked all day, had masters, were beaten and whipped. They could be sold from their families.
400
What is a synonym for antecedent
What is past, former, etc.
500
Reconstruction included which amendments
What is 13th: Abolished Slavery, 14th: granted citizenship to all natural born citizens, 15th: granted the right to vote.
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Describe the Dred Scott Decision
What is was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[2][3] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an African American slave who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom. In a 7–2 decision written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,
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What happened as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg?
What is the Union won and put the Confederacy on the defensive.
500
What caused the Civil War?
What is the north wanted to abolish slavery, so the South seceded and formed the Confederacy.
500
What is an antonym of proactive
What is passive, inactive, lazy
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