Constitution
Shared powers by the state government and national government?
Concurrent Powers?
What is the Plan that General Winfield Scott used to attack the South?
The Anaconda Plan
What was the end of the Reconstruction?
The compromise of 1877. Hayes president, all troops removed from south, railroad system.
13th Amendment?
Abolishing Slavery in the United States
Delegated Power vs. Reserved Power
Delegated: Powers granted to congress (Federal)
Reserved: Powers given to the state
The four slave states in the Union?
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland
Guaranteed the right to vote regardless of the race, color, or a previous condition of servitude?
15th Amendment
Significance of this fight is that it ended the war?
Appomattox
Added to the constitution and gave the explicit protection of individual rights and freedoms?
Bill of Rights
Explain the military draft?
In the north, all white men 20-45 required to report for military duty. Could pay $300 to avoid the draft.
Government program that helped protect 4 million newly free slaves. Provided clothes, food, education, and medical care.
Freedmen Bureau?
54th Massachusetts Regiment?
All black regiment that fought valiantly and earned praise/recognition of African Americans
435 Members in this body of the ligislature?
House of representatives
Bread Riot?
In the south, naval blockade made prices of food and goods skyrocket.
Which Amendment granted citizenship to all formerly enslaved people by declaring that anyone born in the united states is a citizen. Equal protection and due process to black people?
14th Amendement
the 5 Ideals?
Equality, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, Democracy
Explain the Checks and Balances of the 3 branches of government.
Judicial: interprets laws
Executive: enforces laws
Legislative: makes laws
Explain the battle and tactics that are represented by "Total War"
General Sherman's campaign of destruction through Georgia and Carolinas. to destroy moral and supplies.
The court case that says Seperate but equal is constitutional. Enforcing Jim Crow Laws in the south.
Plessy v. Ferguson
What proved the articles of confederation were to weak?
Shays rebellion as farmers took over the court houses