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Chapter 2
Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened during the Civil War? | Slavery split the nation into the North and South |
| What were the North's benefits and disadvantages? | Benefits: manufacturing and production of war supplies were made here, and an extensive railroad system Disadvantages: a smaller not as strong military |
| What were the South's benefits and disadvantages of war? | Benefit: more committed military, stronger military leaders Disadvantage: lacking in supplies and production |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | President Lincoln proclaimed African Americans "free" but it did not apply to loyal slave states of Southern territories under Union control. |
| Did the Emancipation Proclamation end slavery? | It did not end slavery, it just gave hope to those freed and eventually led to the abolition of slavery because it freed slaves that were already living in the Union. |
| Who were the Radical Republicans? | Congressmen who argued that southerners caused the war, they favored punishment and harsh recognition |
| What did Radical Republicans do? | Split the South into 5 military districts under the command of Union generals, advocated full citizens rights for African Americans, and wanted states' authority to be subordinated by federal power |
| What were the goals of the Freedmen's Bureau? | To aid freed slaves, relieve the South's immediate needs, develop public schools for African Americans, reunite families, and negotiate fair labor contracts. |
| When did the Battle of Gettysburg happen? | July of 1863, the Union took on Robert E. Lee |
| What happened during the Battle of Gettysburg? | 1/3 of Lee's forces were destroyed, last major attempt by the Confederate to take on the North. |
| What was the Gettysburg Address? | A speech of President Lincoln's where he dedicated a cemetery at Gettysburg and reaffirmed the ideas for the Union fighting. |
| What did the 13th Amendment do? | Ended slavery in 1865 under Johnson's plan |
| What did the 14th Amendment do? | Guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the US, including African Americans, ratified in 1868. |
| What did the 15th Amendment do? | Guaranteed that no male citizen could be denied that right to vote on basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" ratified in 1870. |
| What was an effect of Radical Reconstruction? | Southern African Americans slowly lost the right to vote, legal separation of races became law in southern states, African American leaders lost spots in government. |
| What is de jure segregation? | The legal separation of all races becoming law in southern states. |
| What are some ways the power of African Americans was damaged? | Political scandals in the Grant administration, in 1871 troops were withdrawn from southern states, in 1872 Congress dissolved the Freedmen's Bureau. |
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