The War
They had a greater advantage at the outset of the Civil War due to more railroads, more food production, and more people.
What is the North?
"Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war..."
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
April 12-13, 1861 was the bombardment by Confederate troops and marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The South was divided into ________ _________ in order to govern them after the Civil War.
What are military districts?
He signed a law freeing slaves in states of rebellion, suspended habeas corpus, and instituted a draft for the Union army.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
To preserve the Union, Lincoln invoked his emergency power of _______ _________.
What is habeas corpus?
Freed slaves in states of rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
It was fought in Maryland in 1862 and was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
Due to his assassination, the South's re-entry into the Union became incredibly difficult!
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
He was an aggressive general for the Union army, implemented the Anaconda plan, and replaced General George McClellan.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Means "before the war".
What is antebellum?
Rutherford B Hayes signed a compromise promising improvements for the South, appoint a Southerner to his cabinet, and withdraw the military from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Led to the "Sherman's March to the Sea" where civilians lost a great deal of property.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
This organization was created to provide freed slaves with legal advice, schools to educate former slaves, and provide food, housing, medical care.
It was NOT designed to protest unfair treatment of former slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
He was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act of 1867.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Ratified to abolish slavery.
"... I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists..." was part of Lincoln's _________ ________ ________.
What is First Inaugural Address?
Most battles in during the Civil War were fought here.
What is the South?
Enacted by southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves.
What are Black Codes?
Awarded the election of 1876 because he promised the South he would remove the military occupation of the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Lincoln's ultimate goal in his Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural Address, and in general.
What is "to preserve the Union"?
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,...We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here, gave their lives that that nation might live."
What is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
This battle gained the Union control of the Mississippi River.
Ratified to protect voting rights of African Americans.
What is the 15th amendment?
He helped reverse a seeming Union victory as he led reinforcements into the battle at Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Ratified to recognize newly freed slaves as American citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
Lincoln gave the most speeches during the Civil War. The man who assassinated him at Ford's Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Boothe?
What is the Battle at Gettysburg?
Radical Republicans did not like President Johnson's Reconstruction policy toward the South as they felt it was too __________.
What is lenient?
Group of men who founded the KKK who resented Reconstruction policies.
Who are confederate veterans?