UNION
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Union or Confederacy:
--contained four slave states
--allowed African Americans to fight at the end of the war
--had Generals who were willing to sustain huge losses to gain ground
What is the Union?
One word: rebuilding the South politically and socially.
What is Reconstruction?
Lincoln emphasized the meaning of the war and the soldiers' sacrifice for their nation in this famous speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Advantages of the ___________:
--Larger population
--advanced industry
--network of railroads
What is the North?
Yankees supported the Union, and Rebels supported the _______________.
What is the Confederacy?
This system kept many African American families in poverty and debt.
What is sharecropping?
This military strategy was used to invade the South at the end of the war led by General Sherman.
What is total warfare?
Enslaved people in the Confederacy were freed.
More enslaved people ran away than ever before.
Lincoln used freeing the enslaved as a military strategy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln's primary purpose in fighting the Civil War was to preserve this.
What is the Union (The United States)?
As president, this man took advantage of the North's industry to fight and win the war.
Who is Lincoln?
Black Codes and these Laws passed by the South were created in order to limit the rights of free African Americans and segregate Black and white people in public life.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The Declaration of Independence supported ideals of freedom and democracy, just like this Lincoln speech named after a major battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
True or False:
The Reconstruction Era solved the issue of slavery AND racial inequality.
What is FALSE?
The ___________ Plan:
--control rivers
--blockade ports
--capture the capital
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was the bloodiest battle of the entire war and a major victory for the Union, prompting the president to make an address.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A significant achievement of Reconstruction was the progress made in this system, but I'm sure you LEARNED that already.
What is education?
There were more casualties at this battle than in entire earlier wars combined.
What is Antietam?
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation if "separate but equal" facilities were provided.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The group of states with slavery but stayed in the Union were called this.
What are Border States?
Women often served as this during the war effort.
What are nurses?
This general's terms of surrender at the Appomattox Court House were generous to emphasize the reforming of the two nations once again.
Who is General Grant?
This was an organization that fought against political equality for Southern Black people.
What the the Ku Klux Kan?
Black soldiers, like those in this group, were often at risk of being captured and sold into slavery during the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?