Civil War Battles/ Strategies
Strategy by the north to STRANGLE the south out of their resources by controlling the Mississippi River and cutting off resources to the south
Anaconda Plan
President of the Union (United States) during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Codes in the south that tried taking away voting rights by issuing literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses
Black Codes
What president was impeached by Radical Republicans because he violated the tenure of office act?
President Andrew Johnson
What were the three major pull factors for brining people out west?
1) Completion of the railroad
2) Discovery of gold
3) relocation of native americans
This is where shots were fired for the first time during the Civil War. The south attacked the north for the first time here!!
Fort Sumter
Jefferson Davis
Congress passed this to get rid of black codes which gave African American's citizenship and equal protection under the law
Civil Rights Act of 1866
What were northerners who came to the south during reconstruction called?
What were white southerners who supported reconstruction called?
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
What lands were Native Americans sent too?
What was the relocation of the Cherokee tribe called that led to 25% of their total population dying?
Reservation lands and Trail of Tears
This battle was a draw and became one of the bloodiest battles, if not the bloodiest, in the whole Civil War
Antietam
General of the confederate army that ordered "Pickets Charge" at the battle of Gettysburg
Robert E Lee
Civil Rights Act of 1866 gets rewritten into this. It defines citizenship, gives equal protection under the law, and is an amendment in the constitution
14th amendment
What did southern governments turn into once the north withdrew troops from the south?
Old racist confederate leaders
What was the ACT that promised 160 acres of land for 1.65$ an acre or for free if you farmed it for 5 years?
This was the Native Americans land, but they were sent to reservation lands. What were they forced to do on these reservation lands?
Homestead Act and Americanize
This battle was a turning point in the war for the north and proved to the north that they could win this war!
Battle of Gettysburg
White abolitionist who killed people in bleeding Kansas and tried to lead a slave rebellion but failed
John Brown
Which amendment abolishes slavery?
Which amendment gives African American MEN the right to vote?
13th and 15th amendments
What group was formed that terrorized black people in the south when the north left the south?
What were the racial segregation laws in the south called that started the era of segregation?
KKK and Jim Crow Laws
What were towns that sprang up all over the place over night out west called?
What were they called when everyone abandoned these towns once all the gold ran out?
Boom towns and ghost towns
This was the first official battle of the Civil War in Virginia
Battle of Bull Run
Appointed supreme commander of the army during the Civil War, ordered William Sherman's march to the sea, and became president of the US during reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant
What group in congress tried to help newly freedmen and established the Freedmen's Bureau to help freedmen adjust to freedom?
Radical Republicans
What was it when a freedmen got land, tools, and a mule from a landowner but had to give the landowner most of everything they made?
What was it when a freedmen RENTED and worked on land from a landowner?
What was the endless cycle of DEBT called the landowners put freedmen into which was basically legalized slavery?
Sharecropping, Tenant Farmers, Debt Peonage
Name at least 3 problems farmers ran into out west and 3 solutions they used to solve these problems.
Obstacle #1: remoteness of markets
Solution #1: Railroads allowed farmers to ship produce east to markets
Obstacle #2: lack of wood for homes
Solution #2: farmers built “sod houses” made from thick clumps of grass and soil cut into bricks
Obstacle #3: lack of wood for fencing
Solution #3:farmers used barbed wire (invented in 1874)
Obstacle #4: lack of rainfall
Solution #4: farmers used drilling equipment and windmills to build wells and pump water to the surface
Obstacle #5: tough, dry soil
Solution #5: farmers used steel plows to plow deep into soil
Obstacle #6: lack of fuel
Solution #6: farmers burned “buffalo chips” for fuel
Obstacle #7: lack of manpower
Solution #7: farmers used machinery to farm more acres with fewer workers