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Study Guide Unit 1
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Copperheads | A type of poisonous snake where most of the southern sympathizers limited their antiwar activities to speeches and newspaper articles. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Allowed blacks to fight in the army |
| Total War | Strategy of fighting in which an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by attacking civilian and economic, as well as military, targets. |
| War of Attrition | Union general Grant’s Civil War strategy of fighting until the south ran out of men, supplies, and will. |
| Amnesty | An official pardon issued by the government. |
| Black Codes | Laws passed in the southern states during reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom of former slaves. |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern republicans . |
| Sharecroppers | enabled planters to get their lands worked when they did not have enough cash to pay laborers. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreed to let all union troops out of the south. |
| Reconstruction acts | period following the civil war during which the U.S government worked to rebuild the former confederate states and reunite the nation. |
| What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle? | Diseases. |
| What is the Anaconda Plan? | was designed to squeeze the life out of the south like an anaconda snake. |
| What were Northerners called who sympathized with the South called? | carpetbaggers |
| What were the Jim Crow Laws? | A set of laws that deprived African Americans of their rights, |
| What is the Crittenden Compromise? | The Senator John Crittenden planned to resolve conflict between North and south by extending the Missouri compromise line but president Lincoln rejected it. |
| What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson? | The court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the fourteenth amendment. |
| 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 Beauregard and general Johnston led the battle |
| What kind of ruler was George McClellon? (Reluctant or Brave) | was often reluctant to attack the confederates. |
| What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War? | They allowed it in 1862 |
| What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free? | The emancipation proclamation |
| What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry? | A group made up of African Americans. |
| Where did the South surrender? | The Appomattox courthouse. |
| What is Reconstruction? | Rebuilding the south. |
| Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
| What did the 13th Amendment do? | Abolished slavery. |
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Luke Rasberry
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