Chapter 21: North Versus South
What is a part of law that restricts something?
Proviso
What is a war within one country, rather than between two different nations?
Civil War
What was the biggest battle of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
What agency's goal was to help the newly "freed men" by providing education, food, housing, and medical aid?
Freedmen's Bureau
In 1869, Congress proposed the _________ __________, which made it illegal to deny citizens the right to vote based on race.
Fifteenth Amendment
What required Northern citizens to cooperate with and assist slave-catchers, and denied runaway slaves a fair trial?
The Fugitive Slave Act
The North were nicknamed _______, or the Union and wore ____ uniforms.
Yankees, blue
What was the first line of the Gettysburg Address?
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent..."
On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was ___________.
Assassinated
What is a system whereby farmers receive supplies and land in exchange for providing a share of the crop to the landowner?
Sharecropping
What is a theory or position on an issue?
Doctrine
The South were nicknamed ______, or the Confederates, and wore ____ uniforms.
Rebel, gray
What is a practice that also uses/attacks civilians and nonmilitary resources?
Total War
_____ ______ protect the ability to participate in activities granted to citizens, without discrimination.
Civil Rights
In 1866, a secret organization called __ _____ ____ was organized in Tennessee with the purpose of violently opposing civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What is someone who dies for his or her beliefs called?
Martyr
The Confederate army was known for screaming loudly when they were on the attack, so their battle cry was known as the _____ ____.
Rebel Yell
On January 31, 1865, Congress passed the __________ _________, banning slavery.
Thirteenth Amendment
What is Due Process?
The normal way that the law is practiced; process that is due to each citizen.
What does it mean to be freed from responsibility?
Exempt
What SEVEN states met to establish their own government as the Confederate States of America?
South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the ____________ ____________, a call to end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
What were the combined casualties (killed, wounded, or missing) of the Battle of Antietam?
23,000
Congress passed the ______ of Office Act, which limited executive power by requiring the president to secure congressional approval before he could remove members of his cabinet.
Tenure
What is the enforced separation of people, specifically on the basis of race?
Segregation