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Study Guide Unit 1
Question | Answer |
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Copperheads | Northerners who sympathized with the South. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Decreed that all slaves living in areas still rebelling against the United States would be free. |
Total War | A strategy to target the economy of the enemy. |
War of Attrition | A plan to continue fighting until the south ran out of men, supplies, and the will to fight. |
Amnesty | A official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses. |
Black Codes | Laws limiting the former slaves. |
Carpetbaggers | Northern Republicans, both Whites and African Americans, eager to participate in the state convention. |
Sharecroppers | Farmers who worked land in return for a share of the crops, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule. |
Compromise of 1877 | In return for the Democrats' acceptance of Hayes as president, the Republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the South. |
Reconstruction acts | Divided the former Confederacy into five military districts . |
What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle? | Disease and Infection. |
What is the Anaconda Plan? | A naval blockade designed to 'slowly squeeze the life out of the South.' |
What were Northerners who sympathized with the South called? | Copperheads |
What were the Jim Crow Laws? | Laws that separated the races. |
What is the Crittenden Compromise? | The Crittenden Compromise was one attempt to compromise with the Secessionist by separating America into two halves. |
What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson? | Plessy lost; segregation became legal. |
Who were the South relying on to help in the Civil War? ( 2 Countries in Europe) | France and Great Britain. |
Who led the South in the Battle of Shiloh? | Albert Johnson and P. G. T. Beauregard. |
What kind of ruler was George McClellon? (Reluctant or Brave) | Reluctant. |
What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War? | 1962 |
What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free? | The Emancipation Proclamation. |
What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry? | A Union infantry mostly made up of African American soldiers. |
Where did the South surrender? | At the Appomattox Courthouse. |
What is Reconstruction? | The changing of laws in the South. |
Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
What did the 13th Amendment do? | Abolished slavery. |