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Amer. Hist. Unit 5
Unit 5 - Civil War and Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| habeas corpus | a court order requiring authorities to bring a prisoner before the court so that the court can determine whether the prisoner is being held legally |
| 15th Amendment | prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they were previous slaves |
| home rule | a state's powers of governing its citizens without federal goverment involement |
| conscription | to draft citizens for military service |
| black codes | laws passed in the south after the Civil War which restricted African Americans' lives (prohibiting travel, carrying weapons, marrying whites, court procedures) |
| Anaconda Plan | a three part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy (the south) in the Civil War |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery and involuntary servitude |
| 14th Amendment | makes all persons born or naturalized in the US - including former slaves - citizens of the country and giving them equal rights |
| George McClellan | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate army (south) commander |
| William Sherman | |
| Andrew Johnson | |
| Clara Barton | |
| Hiram Revels | |
| Andersonville | |
| Fort Pillow | in Tennessee - a massacre where Confederate troops killed over 200 African-American prisoners and some whites |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on Jan 1, 1863, freeing the slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War |
| Appomattox Courthouse | in Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865 - ending the Civil War |
| Total war | |
| Civil Rights Act | |
| John Wilkes Booth | |
| Fort Sumter | |
| Battle of Bull Run | |
| Shiloh | |
| Antietam | the bloodiest single day battle in American history (26,000 troops) |
| Gettysburg | |
| Vicksburg | |
| What were the strengths of the Nroth before the war began? | |
| What were the strengths of the South before the war began? | |
| Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? | |
| What were the results of the Emancipation Proclamation? | |
| How did the African-Americans contribute to the struggle to end slavery? | |
| What was Grant's overall plan to defeat Lee's Army? | |
| What were some costs of the Civil War? | |
| What was President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction? |
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