Civil War Stuff
The South's (Confederacy) advantages during the Civil War would be better trained soldiers and more qualified _______________ to lead them.
Commanders
The legislative Act that called for popular sovereignty (allowing newly admitted states to vote on whether or not to have slavery was the ___________________ Act.
Kansas-Nebraska
First African American elected to the U.S. Senate from MS
Hiram Revels
The winner of the 1860 U.S. Presidential election was this man.....from this newly created political party of the time.
Abraham Lincoln......Republican
This was a racist, military like group in the south that sought to scare blacks and restore white control of the post Civil War south.
Ku Klux Klan
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (United States), _______________- was the second state to do so.
Mississippi
The MS Colonization society offered freed blacks a chance to leave the country and relocate to _____________.
Africa
Name given to Native Southern whites that were loyal to the cause of abolition and general equality amongst society.
Scalawag
This Presidential decree established the fact/idea that all slaves in any states that were still rebelling against the Union were now liberated.
The Emancipation Proclamation
MS is readmitted to the Union in this year
1870
Due to its favorable location on the cliffs above the Mississippi River, this MS city was a vital location for both the Union and the Confederacy.
Vicksburg
This political party was created to champion (promote) the practice/idea of abolition.
Republican
Name given to native whites from the north who moved to the south and who supported abolition and general social equality
Carpetbaggers
Black soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War received less ________ than their white counterparts, were mostly used for ____________ labor jobs, and faced severe limits on their abilities to be ____________ within the Union Army.
Pay; manual; promoted
Federal Amendment that officially abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
In order to win the Civiil War, the northern strategy involved a plan to ___________ and conquer the Confederacy (south).
Invade
This group resorted to scare tactics to try and keep black men from voting after the passage of the 15th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
He was the second black man elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of MS.
Blanche K. Bruce
This is the process of denying suffrage to a person or group of people
Disenfranchisement
This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
During the course of the Civil War, women in the south helped the war effort by farming, __________ uniforms and other clothing items, serving as ____________ to help treat the wounded, and a few even served in ________________.
Sewing; nurses; combat
Once the Civil War was over and the 13th Amendment was passed, many freedmen left the south but even more of them decided to stay in the south and created all black _____________ and communities
Churches
The initial job of the new District Commanders in the Southern states after the Civil War were to do this important task..........
Register all eligible voters
This organization, established and paid for by government funds, sought to help newly emancipated slaves in the south with things like homes, employment, educational opportunities and access to healthcare.
Freedmen's Bureau
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln developed his plan for ___________________ in the south.
Reconstruction