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Am Hist 16/17
Civil War and Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The process of rejoining the seceded southern states back into the US | Reconstruction |
| Change to the Constitution that abolished (outlawed) slavery | 13th Amendment |
| Change to the Constitution that made all people born in the US, except Native Americans, citizens | 14th Amendment |
| Change to the Constitution that gave African American men the right to vote. | 15th Amendment |
| A fee to vote that limited poor African Americans ability to vote. | poll tax |
| Legal separation of African Americans and whites in public places | segregation |
| A Supreme Court case that allowed segregation as long as it was "separate, but equal." | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| The first President to be impeached (charged by the House of Representatives for breaking the law.) | Andrew Johnson |
| The farming system for freed African Americans in which they farmed land and gave the owner of the land part of the crop for the rent payment | sharecropping |
| The agency that helped build schools and hospitals for African Americans and the poor. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| The battle that was the turning point in the Civil War for the Union. | Gettysburg |
| A policy made by Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves during the Civil War in hopes they would help the Union | Emancipation Proclamation |
| The first shots of the Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| The battle that made it clear that the Civil War would not be short. | First Battle of Bull Run |
| Set of laws that limited the freedom and rights of African Americans | Black Codes |
| This person performed on the battlefield and formed the future American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
| The place where Confederate troops surrendered to the Union army | Appomatox Courthouse |
| The military commander for the Union and later president | Ulysses S. Grant |
| The military commander for the Confederate States | Robert E. Lee |
| The Confederate States of America | South |
| The Union | North |
| A naval battle that ended in a draw because of the new ironclad ships | Hampton Road/ Monitor and Merimack |
| Confederate victory even though they had fewer troops than the Union | Battle of Chancellorville |
| This victory allowed the Union to control the southern half of the Mississippi and divide the Confederacy. | Battle of New Orleans |
| Ships heavily armored with metal that made wooden ships outdated | Ironclads |
| The South's hope to get help from Great Britain in the Civil War | cotton diplomacy |
| A war strategy of destroying everything, including civilians' things in a place | total war |
| Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, who had slaves, but sided with the Union | border states |
| Agreement that removed the federal military troops from the South | Compromise of 1877 |
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