Civil War Beginnings
True or False: Lincoln threatened to abolish slavery in his first inaugural address.
False
This election (year and winner) set off the chain of events that started the Civil War.
What is Lincoln, 1860?
What is the 13th Amendment?
One example of disenfranchisement in the South following the 15th Amendment.
What is literacy tests, poll taxes, the grandfather clause?
Two things the Freedmen's Bureau provided.
What is food, job support, housing, education, medical care, reuniting families, legalized marriages, record-keeping?
What are two advantages of the Union at the beginning of the war?
Railroads, manufacturing (weapons, etc.), manpower, resources
Sherman's March to the Sea took place in this state.
What is Georgia?
The Emancipation Proclamation did this.
What is "freed slaves in Confederate states?"
An example of a law part of the Black Codes.
What are vagrancy laws, laws limiting intermarriage, movement, work, owning firearms?
Definition of "healing" and "justice" when it comes to Reconstruction.
Healing -- How will we bring the country back together, forgiving Confederates?
Justice -- How will we impose consequences on the Confederates, ensure rights for the freedpeople?
The Anaconda Plan involved this.
Surrounding the Confederacy via water (naval blockade, control of rivers) and cutting them off from outside resources; move inward to capture territory
This battle was the bloodiest day in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on this date.
What is January 1, 1863?
Lincoln's initial Reconstruction plan required this % of former Confederates to pledge allegiance to the U.S.
What is 10%?
Andrew Johnson's home state.
What is Tennessee?
The first fighting of the Civil War happened here.
What is Fort Sumter, SC?
This battle along the Mississippi River was an important Union victory in controlling that river and cutting the Confederacy in two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
By only freeing slaves in states that had seceded, Lincoln sought to appease these states.
What are border states?
Define sharecropping.
What is "a system wherein a landowner provided land in exchange for the labor of freedpeople, and freedpeople would be paid with a share of the crops they produced."
Sharecroppers were left in debt, had much less power over where, when, and what their job looked like, wouldn't get paid until crops finally produced, subject to the terms and judgments of the landowners
This type of ship strengthened naval power during the Civil War.
What are ironclads?
This is the location of the final battle of the Civil War, wherein General Lee surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to this state that had seceded, as it had already been captured by the Union army.
What is Tennessee?
This bill, which Lincoln did not sign, proposed that southern states must ensure Black equality and a majority of white southerners pledging allegiance to the U.S. before readmission to the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
These acts marked a shift to Radical Reconstruction, forming new southern state governments that included Blacks and excluded Confederates at the hands of a Republican Congress.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?