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The Civil War
Reconstruction
Freemen
100
Lincoln’s decree that freed enslaved people in states still fighting the Union
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
President of the Union during the Civil War?
What was President Lincoln.
100
What is one geographic advantage the South had over the North
What is fighting on familiar land?
100
What was President Lincoln’s most important goal during Reconstruction?
What is reuniting the nation?
100
What was a former slave called after the Civil War?
What is a freemen?
200
Union Strategy to destroy civilian and military targets in the South
What is Total War?
200
Who became president after Lincoln's death?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
What physical feature separated the Union capitol from Confederate Virginia?
What is the Potomac River?
200
When the President withholds a signature beyond the 10 day deadline it is called a...
What is a pocket veto?
200
Which amendment guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the United States, including African Americans?
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Law that abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Who came up with the Anaconda Plan?
Who General Winfiel Scott?
300
Lincoln waited until what victory in order to release the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the battle of Antietam?
300
Law that created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
300
Goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for both black and white refugees in South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Law declaring that African American men could join the Union Army
What is the Militia Act?
400
Who was the general-in-chief for the Confederate Army?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
Where did General Lee finally surrender?
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
400
What document said that the majority of the southern votes had to swear loyalty in the union before returning?
What is the Wade Davis Bill
400
How did African Americans in the South often helped Union forces?
What is serving as spies and scouts?
500
Who supported harsh punishment for Confederates and full citizenship for African Americans
What are Radical Republicans?
500
Who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
What are the THREE main issues during Reconstruction?
What is 1) how to bring 11 states back into the Union, 2) how to deal with former slaves, 3) fix the South's economy
500
Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers
What are the black codes?