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4.3 reconstuction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Copperheads | Northern Democrats who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Order announced by President Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in areas rebelling against the union. |
| Total War | Strategy of fighting in which an army destroys it opponet's ability to fight by attacking civilian and economic as well as military targets. |
| War of Attrition | union general grants civil war strategy of fighting until the south ran out of men supplies and will. |
| Amnesty | an official pardon issued by the governement |
| Black Codes | laws passed in the southern states during reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom of former slaves. |
| Carpetbaggers | northern republicans who moved to the south during reconstruction |
| Sharecroppers | system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for supplies and a small share of the crops. |
| Compromise of 1877 | agreement to settle the disputed presidental election of 1876; democrats agreed to accept republican rutherford b. hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the south |
| Reconstruction acts | laws that divided the former confederate states except tennessee into military zones and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th amendment |
| What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle? | infections and disease |
| What is the Anaconda Plan? | union plan during the civil war for a naval blockade of the south - like an anaconda snake |
| What were Northerners called who sympathized with the South called? | They were called Copperheads |
| What were the Jim Crow Laws? | laws that enforced segregation in the south |
| What is the Crittenden Compromise? | senator critendens plan to resolve conflict between north and south by extending the missouri compromise line westward through the remaining territories - rejected by president lincoln |
| What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson? | supreme court ruling that established the seperate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities |
| Who were the South relying on to help in the Civil War? ( 2 Countries in Europe) | england and france |
| Who led the South in the Battle of Shiloh? | confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston and union general Ulysses S. Grant |
| What kind of ruler was George McClellon? (Reluctant or Brave) | Reluctant |
| What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War? | 1862. |
| What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free? | emancipation proclamation |
| What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry? | they were a infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
| Where did the South surrender? | appomattox courthouse (virginia) |
| What is Reconstruction? | period following the civil war during which the us government worked to rebuild the former confederate states and reunite the nation |
| Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
| What did the 13th Amendment do? | Abolished slavery in the United States. |
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