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Civil War
Chapter 7 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Required enlistment into state services | Conscription |
| The right to be brought before a judge when arrested of a crime. | Habeas Corpus |
| Gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone/something | Attrition |
| North's strategic plan to slowly "kill" the South by taking control of ports and waterways. | Anaconda Plan |
| A dollar bill | Greenback |
| North blocks Southern ports in efforts to cut off trade with the world | Blockade |
| Fast Southern vessels that were used to smuggle goods past the blockades | Blockade Runners |
| Process of being set free | Emancipation |
| Military government involving the suspension of ordinary law | Martial Law |
| Searching widely for food and provisions | Foraging |
| Encircling a town/building and cutting off supplies to secure a surrender | Siege |
| An official order or command to do something | Mandate |
| An official pardon | Amnesty |
| A veto put into effect if a president refuses to sign a bill and Congress goes into recess | A pocket veto |
| Slaves that were granted freedom after the ending of the Civil War | Freedmen |
| Adopted after the Civil War to limit the rights of free blacks | Black Codes |
| Charging of a holder of office of misconduct; vote occurs within the House of Representatives | Impeach |
| Northern Republicans who moved into the South to hold office | Carpetbaggers |
| White southerners who worked with Republicans | Scalawags |
| Money the Republicans took illegal in the South (& North) | Graft |
| Farmer who pays for land with crops | Sharecropper |
| A person who farms rented land | Tenant |
| He was Lee's second in command. He died at the battle of Chancellorsville. Nickname comes from Bull Run. | Stonewall Jackson |
| Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate Army). Head of South | Robert E. Lee |
| Commander of the Army of the Potomac (Union Army) from 1864-1865, had fought successfully in the West prior | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Grant's most trusted general. Known for his March to the Sea | William T. Sherman |
| Commander of U.S. Navy. Known for his capture of New Orleans | David Farragut |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Slavery outlawed | 13th Amendment |
| Right to be free of discrimination in states (citizenship to all born and naturalized), due process of law, equal protection under the law | 14th Amendemtn |
| Right to vote not denied based on race (black suffrage) | 15th Amendment |
| Place where Lee surrenders on April 9, 1865 | Appomattox Courthouse |
| Happens 5 days after the ending of the Civil War | Lincoln's Assassination |
| Agreement that Hayes would be President if North: withdraws troops from south, appoints southern post master general, provides funds for internal improvements of south. | Compromise of 1877 |
| Johnson's Reconstruction Plan | Pardon all CSA citizens who take oath, CSA officials/military leaders only if ask for presidential pardon, ratify 13th amendment |
| What law did Johnson ignore when he fired Secretary of War Stanton? (hint: reason why he was impeached) | Tenure of Office Act |
| Terrorized blacks, republicans and carpetbaggers. Made illegal by the Enforcement Acts | KKK |
| Election that official ends the reconstruction in the south | 1876 |
| July 12, 1861: This was the first real battle of the Civil War. It took place near Manassas Junction; Virginia and Beauregard and Stonewall Jackson literally sent the Union soldiers under McDowell running back to DC. | Battle of First Bull Run |
| April 6-7, 1862: This battle, also called "The Hornet's Nest", was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. It took place near Shiloh in Tennessee. Grant and others realize that this will be a long war. | Battle of Shiloh |
| September 17, 1862: This Union victory, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the Civil War and American history. When McClellan once again failed to pursue South and fired. | Battle of Antietam |
| Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863: This Pennsylvanian battle was a turning point of the war. After this, the South won't win any more major battles and the Europeans definately won't come to help the Confederacy. | Battle of Gettysburg |
| May-December, 1864: William Tecumseh Sherman marched through Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas. | March to the Sea |
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