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Unit 1
Question | Answer |
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Copperheads | Northerners who sympathized with the South. |
Emancipation Proclamation | All slaves living in areas still rebelling against the United States would be free. |
Total War | Strategy of fighting in which the army destroys it's opponent's ability to fight. |
War of Attrition | General Grants War strategy of fighting until the south ran out of men, supplies and will power. |
Amnesty | An official pardon by the government. |
Black Codes | Black codes are like Civil War slave codes. |
Carpetbaggers | Northerners who wanted to participate in the state conventions. |
Sharecroppers | A system that had farmers working a parcel of land and in return they would get a share of the crop, a cabin and other supplies. |
Compromise of 1877 | An agreement to withdrawal the federal troops from the South. |
Reconstruction Acts | Laws that divided the former confederate states into military zones. |
What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle? | The shortage on supplies caused bad hygiene that created the diseases which killed off the most of the soldiers. |
What is the Anaconda Plan? | A plan designed to slowly squeeze the life out of the South. |
What were Northerners called who sympathized with the South called? | Copperheads |
What were the Jim Crow Laws? | Laws that enforced segregation in the South. |
What is the Crittenden Compromise? | Extending the Missouri Compromise line westward through remaining territories. |
What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson? | The enforcement of segregation against African Americans and whites. |
Who were the South relying on to help in the Civil War? ( 2 Countries in Europe) | Great Britain and France |
Who led the South in the Battle of Shiloh? | General Grant |
What kind of ruler was George McClellon? (Reluctant or Brave) | Brave |
What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War? | 1862 |
What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free? | Emancipation Proclamation |
What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry? | Extensive service in the Union Army |
Where did the South surrender? | Appomattox, Virginia |
What is Reconstruction? | A plan to rebuild the former Confederate states and reuniting the nation. |
Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
What did the 13th Amendment do? | Abolish Slavery |