Vocabulary
List 2 differences between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
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Lincoln was a lawyer while Davis was a military general.
Lincoln went to a military war veteran for advice, but Davis relied on his own knowledge.
Davis supported slavery while Lincoln opposed it.
Lincoln spent most of his life Illinois, but Davis spent most of his life in Mississippi.
Davis expected England to support the Confederacy and hoped the Union side would just give up. Lincoln used the Anaconda Plan and tried to take control of the Mississippi Rver.
Turning point of the war
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Battle at Gettysburg
Which amendment guaranteed equality for all races and stated that important Confederate leaders could not be elected to political office?
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The Fourteenth Amendment
An organized secret system that helped enslaved African Americans escape to the North or to Canada
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Underground Railroad
Explain how women contributed to the war effort. Two sentence minimum.
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Women often served as volunteer nurses on the battlefield.
Juliet Opie Hopkins sold her property to help pay for Confederate hospitals.
Women kept their family businesses and farms running.
Frances Clalin disguised herself as a man, so she could be a soldier.
Women were spies during the war.
Event that started the war
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Firing on Fort Sumter
Which amendment abolished slavery?
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The Thirteenth Amendment
What is the correct sequence of events?
Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
Juneteenth was established as a holiday.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth was established as a holiday.
Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
__became president after Abraham Lincoln was ___ by ___.
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Andrew Johnson became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
List 2 things that Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had in common.
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Kentucky-born
Both presidents
Both skilled leaders
What evidence supports the idea that the Civil War was the bloodiest war in American History?
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After the Battle of Gettysburg, there were almost 50,000 dead soldiers.
Which amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race?
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The Fifteenth Amendment
Explain two reasons that led to the sectionalism of the North and the South prior to the Civil War.
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The South supported slavery and the North didn't
The North relied on factories for work whereas the South was based on agriculture
The North's geography had hills, mountains, and lakes with a colder climate. The South was warm and sunny with low and level land.
Enslaved African Americans in Confederate states were freed by the _.
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Emancipation Proclamation
How did Matthew Brady change the way civilians experienced war?
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Most civilians had never seen photographs of war zones before Matthew Brady photographed the Civil War.
Battle that that caused many civilians and Confederate soldiers to starve
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Battle at Vicksburg
Explain the struggles that freed African Americans experienced after Reconstruction. 2 sentence minimum.
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States passed Black Codes that denied African American men of certain rights.
Segregation was enforced, which kept people separated based on race.
Some states required African Americans to pay a poll tax before voting, required their grandfathers to have voted before 1867, or required them to pass a reading test, knowing that African Americans were unable to meet these requirements
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
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Passed as part of the Mississippi Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law said that any African Americans fleeing enslavement must be returned to their enslavers
Abraham Lincoln's plan for rebuilding and healing the country was called___.
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Reconstruction
How did General Ulysses S. Grant show compassion to the Confederate soldiers after the Civil War ended? 2 sentence minimum.
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Grant allowed the Confederate soldiers to keep their personal weapons and horses. He gave them food and prevented the Union soldiers from celebrating their victory.
Victory that led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Explain 1 positive and 1 negative effect of the Civil War.
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Positive- The Freedmen's Bureau was established. It built schools and hospitals and established a free education system. Amendments 13-15 were passed.
Negative- Much of the South was destroyed during the Civil War, so Southerners lived in poverty and struggled to rebuild. People became trapped in the system of sharecropping.
Why did marching prove to be more difficult for the Confederate soldiers than the Union soldiers?
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Since the Union blockade prevented the Confederate soldiers from having access to new shoes, they often marched in bare feet.