Outbreak of Civil War
The event served as the catalyst for Southern secession.
What is Lincoln's Election in 1860?
Name the two turning point battles of the war.
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Antietam
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
Appomattox
Amendment that ended slavery
What was the 13th amendment?
The group formed in the south during reconstruction that opposed reconstruction and terrorized the freedmen and women.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
The 1st battle of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in _____ controlled areas and allowed slavery in areas controlled by the ______.
What was Confederate; Union?
Why was the Civil War called “a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?”
rich men in both the north and south could buy their way out of the draft.
Northerners who moved to the south and took advantage of the reconstruction - according to southerners.
What was carpetbaggers?
President Johnson was impeached by Congress for violating the _________ Act.
What was the Office of Tenure Act?
Had all the advantages if the Civil War was a long war.
What was the North?
Why was Vicksburg a turning point in the war?
control the Mississippi River for the Union
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the war?
last Confederate offensive battle in the North
The type of agricultural system in the south after the Civil War that freedmen were the primary labor source.
What was sharecropping?
The amendment that granted African-American men the right to vote.
What was the 15th amendment?
3 parts of the Anaconda Plan.
What was blockade the coast; take the Mississippi River and cut the South in half; and finally attack Richmond?
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
Members of Congress who pushed for political, social and economic changes in the south after the Civil War that would result in greater equality for the freedmen and women.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This election marked the end of the reconstruction.
What was the election of 1876?
Identify at least ONE reason the South seceded from the Union
Slavery
State's rights
Economic disadvantages
Battle of Antietam was significant because
What was the bloodiest single day of the war; led to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
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
less emphasis on states rights / 10th amendment
Lincoln's plan of readmission of southern states back into the union.
What was the 10% plan?
List two parts of the 14th amendment.
What was the citizenship clause; the equality clause; or the due process clause?