Outbreak of Civil War
What event served as the catalyst for Southern secession?
What is Lincoln's Election in 1860?
Name the main turning point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
City, State?
Appomattox, Virginia
Summarize the Thirteenth Amendment
abolish slavery
What is the Ku Klux Klan and what was its original goal?
Secrete white society to keep blacks from voting and keep reconstruction from happening using violent tactics.
Fort Sumter
What is the first battle of the Civil War?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
After the battle of Antietam, President Lincoln issued the Proclamation saying all slaves in the south are free to come to the north.
What political party was created in 1860?
The Republican Party
What was the mistake of the Confederacy during the battle of Gettysburg called?
Picket's Charge
What is the 15th Amendment?
Voting cannot be denied for race or color.
Who supposedly had the early advantage in the war and why?
What is the Confederates because of their military leaders?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Equal protection under the law - regardless of race.
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the war?
last Confederate offensive battle in the North
What is sharecropping and how does it work?
Work the field for part of the crop, cabin, seeds, and a mule.
Define Reconstruction
the rebuilding of the southern states and reuniting the nation.
Compare and contrast Northern and Southern war strategies
Northern: "Anaconda Plan" surround and blockade the south and cut off using the Mississippi River
Southern: defensive war, better military leaders
Describe General Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
burned everything in sight, total war strategy
Lincoln suspended this constitutional right during the war
Habeas corpus (write to a trial)
Who were the Radical Republicans and what were their goals?
The Congress after the civil war
militarize the south with Union troops, ratify the 14th amendment, and write new state Constitutions allowing all men voting rights.
What was the freedman's bureau?
Government agency that assisted blacks integrate into society as a free person (education, housing, work)
Identify at least ONE reason the South seceded from the Union
Slavery
State's rights
Economic disadvantages
We are a nation Under God, of the people, by the people, for the people.
Identify at least TWO major effects of Union victory in the Civil War
end of slavery
union preserved
major loss of life on both sides
What were the black codes?
Laws by former Confederates that limited the freedom of black people.
What was the compromise of 1877?
Democrats accepted a republican president *Hayes*
And republicans would remove and not use the military in the South