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Unit 5
Civil War and Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| name of the Union's battle plan for victory | Anaconda Plan |
| how was the anaconda plan to be accomplished | control Mississippi, blockade ports, capture Richmond, divide and conquer the south |
| first real battle of the war which Confederates won | Bull Run |
| Monitor | Union ironclad ship |
| Merrimack | Confederate ironclad ship |
| conscription | draft |
| Andersonville | Confederate POW camp for captured Union soldiers where the death rate was very high |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery in America |
| 14th Amendment | citizenship rights to freed slaves |
| 15th Amendment | suffrage for black males |
| Reconstruction | physical and political rebuilding of the South |
| Freedmen's Bureau | agency that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South after the war with clothing, food, hospitals, etc |
| Impeach | to formally charge with a crime |
| why was Johnson impeached | he violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Edwin Stanton his Secretary of War (and the Radical Republicans hated him) |
| abolotionist | someone who wanted to abolish or end slavery |
| What did the battle of Bull Run teach both sides | war would not be short or easy but it would be bloody |
| Where was the first Union victory of the War | Fort Donelson |
| What was Lincoln's criticism of McClellan | too cautious |
| Who led the Confederate troops | Robert E Lee |
| Why did Lee turn down Lincoln's request to lead the Union | loyalty to his state of Virginia |
| bloodiest one day battle in American history | Antietam |
| The Emancipation Proclamation freed who | slaves in the rebel states |
| How did Stonewall die | shot, arm amputated, pneumonia set it, death |
| Why was the Union at Vicksburg so important | allowed for Union control of the Mississippi |
| Turning point battle of the War | Gettysburg |
| Who did Lincoln name as Commander of all Union forces in Oct 1863 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Why did Sherman engage in total warfare | to bring the war to the civilian population and achieve an unconditional surrender of the South |
| What happened at Appomattox Courthouse | Lee surrenders to Grant |
| What advantages did the North have over the South | more food, money, factories, people, railroads |
| What advantages did the South have over the North | homeground advantage, fighting spirit, first rate generals |
| Lincoln's reason in fighting the Civil War | to preserve the Union |
| Habeas Corpus | civil liberty suspended by Lincoln due to war needs |
| Hunley | Confederate submarine |
| powder monkey | young lads during the war who ran bags of gun powder from stores below deck to the gun crew |
| Elmira | infamous POW camp in New York with a high death rate of captured Confederate soldiers |
| Clara Barton | creator of the American Red Cross and responsible for the reburial of the Andersonville dead |
| Andrew Johnson | became President after Lincoln's assassination |
| black codes | laws that denied rights to freed slaves in the South |
| What did the Reconstruction Act do | divided the South into 5 military districts |
| Was President Andrew Johnson kicked out of office | no, he was acquitted in the Senate |
| Grant was elected President in 1868 but his administration was known for what | corruption |
| carpetbagger | northerner who went south for Reconstruction purposes and financial gain |
| Negatives of Reconstruction | KKK, corruption of politicians, increased taxes |
| What was the Compromise of 1877 | Presidency given to Hayes but federal troops were to leave the South |
| First African American US Senator | Hiram Revels |
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