Fighting the Civil War
These soldiers who joined the Union Army after the Emancipation Proclamation had more motivation to fight for the freedom of enslaved people.
What are African Americans?
A weak southern economy led to this which caused an increase in prices for food and other goods.
What is inflation?
This freed enslaved people in the Confederacy and allowed African Americans to enlist in the Union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment gave African Americans equal rights.
What is the 14th amendment?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were all ways the south denied this to African Americans.
What is suffrage (voting rights)?
This side had an advantage in the Civil War because they had more factories, railroads and people. (You must say the name of the side, not the geographic area).
What is the Union?
This increased in the north during the Civil War because the Union needed more supplies and weapons.
What is factory production?
By using the telegraph to communicate to generals, this person was able to lead the Union Army to victory due to a strong central government.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment gave African American men voting rights.
What is the 15th amendment?
This term refers to a system in which African Americans got land from white landowners, but were forced to share their crops with them. Therefore they could not make a profit.
What is sharecropping?
This side had an advantage in the Civil War because they had more experienced generals and most battles were fought on their territory. (You must say the name of the side, not the geographic area).
What is the Confederacy?
When this was passed in 1863, it required all men living in the north ages 20-35 to serve in the Union army.
What is the Enrollment Act?
This group of people served in the army, helped cook and clean for soldiers and took care of farms at home.
Who are women?
This amendment made slavery illegal in the United States (unless you were convicted of a crime).
What is the 13th amendment?
This organization targeted African Americans to terrorize them, in some cases hunting them down and killing them.
What is the KKK or Ku Klux Klan?
This strategy cut off southern ports so that the Confederates could not sell cotton to Europe in exchange for weapons.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
As a response to inflation in the south, women protested, stealing from local grocery stores during what is now known as this.
What is the Bread Riots?
Following the riot of 1861, President Lincoln suspended the Write of Habeas Corpus. His actions were challenged in this Supreme Court case.
What is Ex Parte Merryman?
This organization provided newly free African Americans with jobs, food, shelter, and healthcare.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This was when Democrats agreed that the Republican candidate (Hays) could be president if the Republicans agreed to withdraw troops from southern states.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This battle was a key victory for the Union so that the Confederate army could not invade their territory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
As a response to the Enrollment Act, Irish immigrant participated in this, notably attacking an African American orphanage.
What is the New York draft riots?
President Lincoln did not free enslaved people in these states because he was worried they might leave the Union.
What are border states or Maryland, Kentucky, and West Virginia?
With this occupying the south during Reconstruction, former Confederates were forced to follow the new amendments that gave African Americans rights.
What is the Union Army?
The "separate but equal" doctrine was established in this Supreme Court case, upholding the legality of segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?