Civil War
What challenges did the South face?
How to finance/pay for the war
What were the main goals of the Anaconda plan?
Form an Atlantic and Gulf Coast blockade along the Southern ports.
Take control of/block the Mississippi River region to cut Confederate forces in half.
Who is the KKK?
Terrorist organization /
Paramilitary organization
Who killed Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Why did Radical Republicans and Andrew Johnson and disagree over reconstruction
Radical Republicans wanted Protect Black peoples rights whereas Johnson wanted to allow a system similar to slavery to be in place
Who was the Running candidate for the Constitutional Union Party?
John C. Breckinridge
Explain what an embargo is.
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Identify one of the purposes of Black codes.
1. Maintain a social order in the South that prevented the upward mobility of African Americans.
2. To stipulate/ downplay/ diminish the rights of African Americans
3. Stabilize the workforce for planters who no longer could enslave people
What was the name of the fort attacked by the south, which started the civil war?
Fort Sumter
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation effect?
Enslaved people in the South or Confederate states were freed (sort of had to await union troops)
Who was the president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Why was Johnson impeached?
He disagreed with Congress
What was the Southern strategy going into the Civil War?
They believed that all they needed for a victory was to push back invading Union forces, and before long, the Union would tire of battle and leave the Confederacy in peace/ Tire out the North until they were fed up
Explain what the 14th amendment did.
People born in the United States become U.S. citizens
Which key figure was a radical republican?
Thaddeus Stevens
According to Johnson's Reconstruction who could vote?
Plantation owners/ former slave owners
Poor white men
Explain why did New Yorkers riot in 1863?
Congress enacting a military draft
Who actively organized and violated the 15th amendment
The KKK, through violence, harassment, intimidation and murder
Explain why or why not Lincoln was a radical Republican.
Was relatively okay with slavery so long as it stayed where it already was and did not spread/ Did not want to punish the South
According to the Radical Republicans who could vote
Poor white men who did not support the south
Formerly enslaved people