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A Divided War
The Civil War and Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi River, and to take an army through heart of South. | Anaconda Plan |
| A government order preventing trade with another country. | Embargo |
| Commander of Union army and was very aggresive. He became president 8 years later. | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force. | Robert E. Lee |
| Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free. | Emancipation Proclamation |
| A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War. | Copperheads |
| A person can't be held in prison without first being charged with a crime. | Habeas Corpus |
| The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude. | Thirteenth Amendment |
| Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government afetr ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States. | Ten Percent Plan |
| Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves. | Black Codes |
| A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep african americans from obtaining their civil rights. | Ku Klux Klan |
| In 1866 the Civil Rights Act was created to grant citizenship to blacks and it was an attempt to prohibit the black codes. It also prohibited racial discrimination on jury selection. | Civil Rights Act |
| A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians. | Fourteenth Amendment |
| The law that put southern states under US military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th amendment. A period of radical reconstruction. | Reconstruction Acts |
| The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans. | Fifteenth Amendment |
| Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction. They carried their belongings in carpetbags, and most intended to settle in the South and make money there. | Carpetbagger |
| A system of farming where farmers rented their land from the landowner, and were allowed to grow what ever crop the prefered. | Tenant Farming |
| The political deal that gave the presidency to Hayes and ended reconstruction. | Compromise of 1877 |
| Term that identified southern promoters' belief in the technologically advanced industrial South. | New South |
| The unsuccessful plan that set aside 45 million acres of government-owned land in several southern states to provide free farms for African. | Southern Homestead Act |
| Term used to describe Southern white Republicans who had opposed secession. | Scalawags |
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