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Unit 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Election of 1860 | the election that resulted in the southern states to leave the union |
| Fort Sumter | where the first shots of the civil war were shot |
| Jefferson Davis | the president of the confederate states |
| Border states | the slave states that remained in the union |
| Border States | Kentucky, maryland, missouri, delaware and then eventually wesr virginia |
| John C Breckenridge | the southern democratic candidate in the election of 1860 |
| stephen douglas | Northern democratic in the election of 1860 |
| Abraham lincoln | republican canidate and winner of the election of 1860 |
| Abraham lincoln | Opposed the spread of slavery |
| John bell | presidential candidate in 1860 for the union |
| John bell | stood for a peaceful compromise to hold the union together in 1860 |
| First Bull Run | First major battle with the south winning showing that the battles are going to be bloody |
| Anaconda plan | union strategy for winning the war, 3 parts to it |
| Winfield Scott | a union general that was old but came up with the anaconda plan |
| Blockade | preventing the nation from trade or communicating |
| Shiloh | battle that shocked the world with its casualties |
| Antietam | fought in maryland and is the single bloodiest day in america |
| Antietam | battle that stopped confederate invasion to hte north |
| Antietam | Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation after this battl3e |
| Gettysburg | the turning point of the |
| Gettysburg | The battle that convinced France and England to ally with the south |
| Gettysburg | the confederacy faced so ,any casualties in this war that the could not invade again |
| Vicksburg | Battle that divided the confederacy in half |
| Vicksburg | Grant won the siege on July 4th which divided the confederacy |
| March to the sea | the union army led by william sherman waged total war on there to make Georgia join the confederacy |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | A union general that forced them to surrender by using total warfare destroying property and livestock |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Lee and the confederates officially surrendered to the union |
| David Farragut | Union admiral form tn and was responsible for the blockade of TN |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | confederate calvary commander the used gurilla warfare. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Won the battles at Donelson and Fort Henry |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate General responsible for the forces defending Richmond VA |
| Robert E Lee | Won the seven days battles Fredrickson and second bull run |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate General that was responsible for the forces defending richmond |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Ordered issued by Lincoln that officially freed the slaves |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Officially allowed the Native Americans fight in the US army |
| Gettysburg Address | a speech given by Abraham Lincoln that honored the dead and summed up the war |
| 54th Massachusetts | The first all black regiment to fight in the union army |
| Nashville | The 13th colored troops being helped to destroy the confederate army |
| Sam watkins | a soldier form clarksville that kept a journal about his experiance and what he did while being n the army |
| Elisha hunt Rhodes | He kept a diary about his life as a soldier while in the union army |
| Fort Wager | the 54th massaachusetts showed there bravery whch led to them earning there respect |
| Henry and Donelson | Union controlled the tennesse river after capturing these forst |
| John Wilks Booth | Southerner that assassinate President Lincoln |
| 13th Amendment | officially abolished slavery in the unoted states |
| 14th amendment | defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African americans the right to vote |
| ten percent plan | name of lincolns plan for reconstruction |
| Andrew Johnson | Democrat from TN which tunred into Lincolns Vice president |
| Radical Republicans | Group of congressman whose reconstruction plan was to harsh on the south |
| Black Codes | laws passed by induvidual states to limit the rights |
| Millitary reconstruction act | Law passed that divided the south in to 5 military parts |
| Freedoms Bureau | Government agency that was created to help newly fredmen |
| Poll Tax | state law that requires citizens to pay a fee before they can vote |
| Tenure of office Act | Law passed by congreess that was veto by Andrew Johnson |
| Impeachment | to charge the president with a crime |
| Freedmen | slaves that were free cause of the 13th amendment |
| Segregation | seperation of blacks and whites |
| Jim crow lows | laws passed by the southern states |
| William Brownlow | Republican governer of TN during reconstruction |
| Viglinate | A person that makes you justice in there own hands |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners that moved south t help out with profit |
| Scalawags | a southerner that is a republican during reconstruction |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement officially made ended reconstruction |
| Compromise of 1877 | deal made between democrats and republicans |
| Rutherfors B Hayes | Republican President that ended reconstruction |
| Recostruction | Time preiod followig the civil war that was stet to rebuild the country |