Let's Not Fight
Most Civil War battles were fought in this state.
What is Virginia?
The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was that all slaves in "states in rebellion against the Union" would be free on this date.
What is January 1, 1863?
Retreat and surrender are related war terms, but of the two, this one means to fall back in battle rather than to give up.
What is retreat?
These were the two major struggles of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What are government funding and racist vigilantes?
This is a change or addition to a law or other important piece of writing.
What is an amendment?
The second most battles were fought in this Volunteer state.
What is Tennessee?
Of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, this one granted full citizenship to Freedpeople.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Ratify and veto are considered opposites, because they each mean this.
What is to ratify is to make law, and to veto is to reject a law?
This school boasts Jubilee Singers, was started by the Freedmen's Bureau, and originally served primary grades but eventually moved to higher education in 1867.
What is Fisk University?
These are laws put into place during and after the Civil War to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The Civil War was the deadliest US war, because of this reason.
What is it was Americans fighting Americans - "brothers vs. brothers"?
The end of Reconstruction affected African American elected officials in this way.
What is former Confederates were allowed to vote again, so segregation laws and racism caused African Americans not to be reelected to government offices?
Jim Crow Laws were laws put into place during Reconstruction to segregate African Americans and whites. Segregation means this.
What is to separate by race?
These three things impacted life in Tennessee after the Civil War by forcing African Americans to pay poll taxes and/or take literacy tests to vote, threatened the property and lives of African Americans, and created racism and segregation laws which limited the freedoms of African Americans.
What are vigilante groups, Black Codes, and Jim Crow Laws?
This organization was set up by Congress to help former slaves (freedpeople) as well as victims of the war either start or rebuild a life for themselves. They also helped protect the newly won rights of those freedpeople.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Tennessee's geographical location was important in the Civil War, because...
What is it was the border of the Union and Confederacy, had many railroads, and access to major waterways.
These were Abraham Lincoln's four main viewpoints on slavery.
What is he was against the spread of slavery, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, made ending slavery a goal of the war, and thought slavery was wrong overall?
Reconstruction was a plan drawn up by Lincoln to put the country back together again. This plan tried to balance these two goals.
What is to allow southern states back into the Union without too much anger on either side but to also remake the country so the war would never happen again?
The Freedmen's Bureau helped millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War. This organization provided several benefits for these people. These are three of those.
What are: food, housing, medical aid, establishment of schools, legal assistance, and the settling of former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned?
East Tennessee was unique in its opinion on slavery in Tennessee when compared to the middle and western parts of the state due to this belief.
What is East Tennessee was against slavery and voted against secession?
Tennessee was the last state to do this from the Union and the first state to be this to the Union.
What is the last to secede from the Union and the first to be readmitted to the Union?
In the Lincoln/Johnson Presidential Election of 1864, Lincoln held this viewpoint while Johnson represented this group of people.
What is Lincoln's viewpoint of wanting to unify the nation, and Johnson being one of the few Southern Senators left that remained loyal to the Union?
The Union created a blockade around Confederate ports so southern ships could not sail in or out to sell cotton or get supplies. Then, they aimed to gain control of the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers. This plan was called this.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
In 1870, Tennessee held their Constitutional Convention. Four major outcomes came from this event, which overall had the impact of rising occurrences of vigilante justice. These are those four outcomes.
What are:
1. Voting rights had no change due to fear of the 15th Amendment
2. Poll taxes created a big change, causing African Americans to pay a tax in order to vote.
3. Education had some change, because TN took over African American schools after the Freedmen's Bureau closed.
4. Chapter 130 Law was established, which allowed business owners to refuse service to anyone at any time for anything?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments all came from the Reconstruction era. The 13th Amendment, which caused this major change across the South, had to come first before the 14th or 15th Amendments could even be considered.
What is the 13th Amendment abolished slavery?