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Study Guide Unit One
Defining Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Copperheads | Northern Democrats who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A order by President Lincoln that freed slaves in areas rebelling the union on January 1, 1863. |
| Total War | A strategy that armies used to fight by destroying the components ability to fight by attacking civilians and others. |
| War of Attrition | Union General Grant's war strategy of fighting til the components ran out of the will to fight, supplies, and men. |
| Amnesty | An official pardon issued by the government. |
| Black Codes | Laws that limited former slaves freedom in the wouth during reconstruction. |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern Republicans who moved to South during reconstruction. |
| Sharecroppers | Southern Farms used this after the civil war which farmers worked on someone else's land in return of supplies or a small share of crops. |
| Compromise of 1877 | An agreement that settled the election of 1876; democrats excepted Hayes if troops in South were removed. |
| Reconstruction acts | Divided former confederate states to turn them into military zones. |
| What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle? | Diseases |
| What is the Anaconda Plan? | A Union plan for a naval blockade south; squeezing the life out of them like an anaconda snake would do. |
| What were Northerners who sympathized with the South called? | Redeemers |
| What were the Jim Crow Laws? | Laws that enforced segregation in the South. |
| What is the Crittenden Compromise? | John Crittenden plan to reduce conflict with North and South by extending the MO compromise line through remaining territories. |
| What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson? | ended segregation. |
| Who were the South relying on to help in the Civil War? ( 2 Countries in Europe) | French and |
| Who led the South in the Battle of Shiloh? | Johnston. |
| What kind of ruler was George McClellan? (Reluctant or Brave) | Reluctant |
| What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War? | 1865 |
| What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free? | Emancipation Proclamation |
| What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry? | The first american soldiers recruited by the union |
| Where did the South surrender? | Fredricksville |
| What is Reconstruction? | Rebuilding the former confederate states and reunited the nation |
| Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
| What did the 13th Amendment do? | Abolished slavery. |
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