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Which Civil War battle was known as the “Bloodiest Day”?
What is the Battle of Antietam
Who represents the north? Who represents the south?
What is The Union (U.S.) represents the north, the Confederacy represents the south.
What is the importance of the Anaconda Plan?
What is To block southern ports from trading with other countries.
What were the results of sharecropping?
What is Sharecroppers would make very little money because of renting tools and buying other things to have a successful crop.
What was the turning point of the American Revolution?
What is The Battle of Saratoga
This event happened after the Civil War ended and it shook the nation, which event was it?
What is Lincoln was assassinated.
What advantages did the Union have during the Civil War?
What are Railroads, telegraphs, navy, and FACTORIES.
Who were the presidents of the Union and the Confederacy?
What is Union- Abraham Lincoln Confederacy- Jefferson Davis
What were some of the effects of the Transcontinental railroad?
What is Connected the East and West. More markets opened, people moved.
This document would limit the Kings power.
What is the Magna Carta
Explain what the Emancipation Proclamation did for Union and Confederacy?
What is It freed the slaves, ended slavery! (Would turn into the 13th Amendment)
During Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, what was Lincoln’s main point on giving this speech?
We are fighting to end slavery and to make sure the men who died here wasn’t in vain.
Which were the Reconstruction Amendments and what did they do?
What is 13 Amendment- Ends slavery, 14th Amendment- Born in U.S. you are a citizen, 15th Amendment- all males of any race have the right to vote
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?
What is 1st Black American elected to Congress
What is republicanism?
What is we elect people
Where did the Confederate General Lee, signed to end the war with the Union?
What is Appomattox Courthouse
What did General William T Sherman do when he was marching towards the sea?
What is Total War- Destroy everything.
Why did the Congress want to impeach president Andrew Johnson?
What is Didn’t agree with how to handle the Confederacy and he fired his secretary of war.
Describe Black Codes:
What are Laws that restricted the lives of the Freedmen (former slaves)
What are the 3S's?
What is States Rights, Sectionalism, Slavery
Why would president Lincoln enact the draft or conscription act?
What is To have enough soldiers to fight and with the war against the Confederacy.
Who was William Carney?
What is Fought during the Civil War for the Union and won the congressional medal of honor.
Define the Reconstruction era:
What is The era after the Civil War, The south went through the process of being accepted into the Union.
Describe the Dawes Act:
What is Would give land to Native Americans to farm if they moved off their native land. Unsuccessful because it was bad farm land.
These men would try to go strike it rich in California.
What are the 49ers