Show:
Pre Civil War
Civil War
Miscellaneous
Reconstruction
People
100
Large population, greater manpower, advanced industrial system and war materials, better railroads, and better integrated system of lines
What is the strengths of the North?
100
The Confederate side fought hard but eventually surrendered
What is the end of the war?
100
A federal law in the United States stating that people born in the U.S. and not subject to another country is a citizen, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Freedmen’s Bureau, Reunification of the Union, Expansion of economy, Education, Freedom, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
What are the Reconstruction's successes?
100
Lincoln’s Assassin
What is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Since they hadn’t chose a side yet, there were constant fights between the North and South over these states and were caught in the cross fire.
What is the struggle of the Border States?
200
Underestimated their opponent. The civil war occurred mostly in the south, so they didn't know the land, leaving a big advantage to the other side. Lastly they had bad generals that basically didn't know what they were doing.
What is the failure of the North to gain its expected early victory in 1861?
200
The Antebellum South thrived on slave labor. By the time of the civil war, slavery was much more fundamental to Southern culture and economics than in the North
What is the consequence of the war on the South?
200
Restore back so they can become one nation again but they had to decide what conditions to impose on the South before it would be allowed back in. Also "rebuilding" the South socially with the numerous amounts of freed slaves, economically with reorganization on how their plantation system will change with "no slaves" under the white’s authority, and politically their state/regional political structure is destroyed.
What is the problems that the Union faced?
200
President of the Confederate States of America during entire Civil War.
What is Jefferson Davis?
300
Abe was trying to send supplies into this Fort to help his people there, Confederate leaders saw that if they let that happen they’d seem weak. Trying to prove they weren’t they took this Fort by force, which was a slap to Abe’s face since he clearly stated in his inaugural address, government, had federal property. It meant war.
What is the effect of firing on Fort Sumter?
300
180,000 served in the union army, about 10% of union forces. In the south they were forced into labor battalions, building of fortification and supplying of armies. In the north they served as union spies, scouts, and provided shelter to the escaped northern prisoners of the war.
What is the role of African Americans in the war?
300
Sought to safeguard the rights and liberties of African-Americans, and for a time, it succeeded at least in part. Black men held public office at the local, state, and federal levels. Black communities established their own churches, schools, and associations. The South as a whole received some of its first public hospitals and public schools.
What is the effect of congressional Reconstruction in the South?
300
Wanted to punish the South & make the South become more free/equal with the treatment to freed slaves. They set up a new Joint Committee to investigate conditions in the South & create a policy of its own.
What is Congress' plan to Reconstruction?
300
The leading confederate general during the U.S. Civil War
What is Robert E. Lee?
400
He readily admitted he did not know much about war and was constantly looking for the "great man" to lead the Union armies. He put up with the insubordination and patronizing attitude of McClellan because there was no else available. When he appointed US Grant, he stuck with him despite the shocking casualties of the Wilderness and subsequent campaigns
What is Lincoln's political leadership during the war?
400
One of the major battles in the West as it helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
400
In Johnson’s trial, they used the requirement of a 2/3 majority vote, so the radicals used it also when the Supreme Court tried to interfere.
What is the blunders of President Johnson and the white South that opened the door to the radical Reconstruction policies of congressional Republican?
400
Corruption, Black codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, Poverty
What are the Reconstruction's failures?
400
Secretary of state in Lincoln’s cabinet He was the senator from New York. Who was the leading candidate for republican presidential nomination in 1860. An American politician a determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to American civil war.
What is William Seward?
500
Many in ______ actually wanted the U.S. to split. A split U.S. would strengthen ______, relatively speaking. On the other side, many in ______ were pulling for the North. They had largely already moved against slavery and realized that the war might end slavery in the U.S.
What is Europe?
500
1st major battle in American Civil War to take place on northern soil. It was also a major battle that was big enough victory for the emancipation proclamation to occur. The estimated casualties of people were 23,000. The war forced the confederate army to retreat back across the Potomac river. Abraham Lincoln saw how significant it was and issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
What is the significance of the Battle of Antietam?
500
African Americans viewed it as complete end to slavery/injustice/humiliation they had to associate with, same rights and protect as those of the whites, but Whites viewed freedom as a ability to control their own destinies w/out interference of North or federal government. Whites wanted to preserve local/regional autonomy & white supremacy, while blacks created African-American communities to pull-out of communities (churches, schools)
What is the responses of African Americans and whites to the end of slavery?
500
He violated the 1867 Tenure of Office Act by attempting to fire Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
What is the reason the Radical Republicans impeached President Johnson?
500
Senator of Massachusetts; urged that civil and military leaders of Confederacy be punished, large numbers of whites be disenfranchised, legal rights of blacks be protected, and property of wealthy white Southerners who aided Confederacy be confiscated and distributed among freedmen
What is Charles Sumner?