Misc.
What is the South's ONLY advantage in the Civil War?
Military Experience
The 1st and only president of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis
The first battle of the war
Fort Sumter
What was Lincoln's original goal for the war?
Preserve the Union
10% plan
Repudiate Secession
Ratify the 13th Amendment
The lsit above describes what?
Presidential Reconstruction
As a result of constantly vetoing Republican reconstruction policy and removing opponents from office, waht happened to Andrew Johnson?
He was impeached
Known for his "march to the sea"
breaks the back of the confederacy
wins Lincoln re-election in 1864
William T. Sherman
Turning point battle
split the confederacy in two
Union gained control of the Mississippi river
Vicksburg
Lincoln's 2nd Inagural Address preached what type of behaviour toward the south at the end of the war?
"Malice toward none"
"Charity for all"
Welcome the south back as quickly as possible.
What is the name of the organizations that provided food, shelter, housing, and legal aid to newl freed blacks?
Freedman's Bureaus
Who used violence and terror to prevent newly freed blacks from exercising their right to vote?
The Ku Klux Klan
Cuts the confederacy in half at Vicksburg
Commander of the Union armies
Accepts the surrender of the confederacy in 1865
Ulysses S. Grant
single bloodiest DAY in U.S. history
No clear winner
Lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation
Antietam
Freed all slaves in the south
Increased the size of the Union army
Targeted the south's economy
Emancipation Proclamation
Why did the south use polltaxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
To stop newly freed blacks from voting.
What is the name of the laws in the south used to maintain the same white supremacy from before the civil war?
(Hint: Switched out the word slave for employee or servant)
Commander of the Confederate armies
Talented general who could make do with a small force
Robert E. Lee
Wins Lincoln re-election in 1864
Destroys confederate supply lines
breaks the back of the confederacy
Atlanta
Gave the War a higher purpose
Delievered to commemorate a cemetery
Gettysburg Address
Name 2 of the 4 effects of Congressional Reconstruction
Ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
5 Military Districts
Allow African Americans to vote and hold office
50% oath of Loyalty
Who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Brilliant Tactician
Never lost a battle
Killed at Chancellorsville by his own men
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Turning point battle
Single bloodiest BATTLE in U.S. history
Beginning of the end for the confederacy
Gettysburg
What was the effect of Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus?
Confederate sympathizers were jailed without due process (seeing a judge)
List 2 of the 4 requirements the north had to agree to in the Hayes-Tilden Compromise
Southernor in the cabinet
Transconinental railroad running through the south
Infrastructural improvements
Withdrawal of Federal Troops