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MS Studies C6
| Question | Answer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Second/Final capital of the confederacy | Richmond, Virginia | ||
| Bloodiest Battle / Brought Grant to MS | Battle of Shiloh | ||
| Reason for Andrew Johnson's impeachment | Tried to block the reconstruction acts | ||
| Shoestring district | 6th congressional district | ||
| Blockade | Naval forces isolate a seaport & prevent ships from entering or leaving | ||
| President Of the Confederacy (Mississippi) | Jefferson Davis | ||
| Vice-president of the confederacy (Georgia) | Alexander Stephens | ||
| Union General in charge of troops in Ms | General Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Led the confederate troops at the battle of Shiloh | General Albert Sidney Johnston & General P.G.T Beaugusrd | ||
| Casualties | Persons killed , missing , or wounded | ||
| Batteries | Sets of big guns used for attack/defense | ||
| Amnesty | Pardon granted to a large group of individuals | ||
| Freedmen | Slaves who are now full citizens | ||
| What Freed All Slaves in Rebellion States | Emancipation Proclamation- Lincoln | ||
| 18th president of the United States | Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| 1st African American Senator | Hiram Revels | ||
| Scalawags | Northerners who moved to the south to support the rights of blacks | ||
| KKK (ku klux klan) | Secret organization 2 protects whites at the price of creating violence against blacks | ||
| Readmission Of Mississippi | February 23, 1870 | ||
| Black Codes (Set of laws that governed and regulated the lives of freedmen in MS) *name 3* | Not allowed to vote or hold public office | If under 18 and not living w parents, were apprenticed to white men | Not allowed to gamble or drink alcoholic beverages; if found guilty of this - imprisonment / arrest/ / fine |
| Confederate States | South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky , Maryland & Delaware | ||
| Lincolns Plan | Confederate state would be readmitted to the union IF 10% of eligible voters to the oath and allegiance & formed a state government that promised to stay loyal to the union | ||
| Time of rebuilding the south and restoring the union after the civil war | Reconstruction Period 1865-77 | ||
| First capital of the confederacy | Montgomery | ||
| Coming together at an appointed place | Rendezvous | ||
| Defended position | Redoubts | ||
| First African American Senator | Hiram Revels & Blanch k Bruce | ||
| Role of Vicksburg during war (2) | 1) Vicksburg's high bluff was hard to capture and controlled all the traffic in the MS River. 2) Capture was a high priority of the Union so mid-western states could be reconnected to transportation | 3) If they could be captured, Confederacy supply, like from the west would be halted. 4) Confederacy would be cut in half. Ulysses was captured in Vicksburg July 3, 1863. |