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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Election of 1860 | the election that led the southern states to leave the Union and form the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | The first shots of the Civil War were fired here |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the CSA |
| Border States | slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War |
| Border States | KY, MO, MD, DE, WV |
| John C. Breckinridge | Southern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860 |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican candidate and winner of the Election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories |
| John Bell | presidential candidate in 1860 for the CUP |
| John Bell | stood for a peaceful compromise to hold the Union together in 1860 |
| First Bull Run | first major battle of the CW; southern victory; showed that the war would be long and costly for both sides |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy for winning the war; blocade the south, divide the Confederacy, and capture Richmond, the CS capital |
| Winfield Scott | Union General that was old but he came up with the Anaconda Plan |
| Blockade | To prevent a nation from trading or communicating with another nation by sea |
| Shiloh | battle in SW TN that shocked the country with its heavy casualties |
| Antietam | fought in MD, single bloodiest day in US history |
| Antietam | battle that stopped the first Confederate invasion to the North |
| Antietam | After this battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg | turning point of the CW, stopped Lee's second invasion of the North |
| Gettysburg | battle that convinced England and France to not ally with the South |
| Gettysburg | Confederate army suffered so many casualties at this battle, they could not invade the North again |
| Vicksburg | capture of this city led to the Union capturing the MS River |
| vicksburg | Battle that officially divided the CS in half |
| Vicksburg | Grant won this siege on July 4, thus dividing the CS in half |
| March to the Sea | The Union army led by William Sherman waged total war on the people of GA to break their will to support the CS army |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | union general that used total warfare to destroy property, livestock and transportation systems to force the Southern people to surrender |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Lee and the CS army officially surrendered to Grant and the Union army at his place on April 9,1865 |
| David Farragut | Union admiral from TN, responsible for the blockade of the Confederacy |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | Confederate cavalry commander that used guerilla warfare on the Union army MS and TN |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander that finally defeated Robert E. Lee and won the war |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Won the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga for the Union |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general responsible for the forces defending Richmond |
| Robert E. Lee | Won the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general that saved the day at First Bull Run and earned a famous nickname |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Order issued by Lincoln that officially freed the slaves in Confederate states but no border states |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Officially allowed African Americans to enlist and fight in the US army |
| Gettysburg Address | brief speech given by Lincoln that summed up the goals of the war and honored the dead |
| 54th MA | first all balck regiment to fight in the Union army |
| Nashville | 13th colored troops helped to destory the CS army in TN at this battle |
| Sam Watkins | solider from Clarksville that kept a journal about his experiences in the CS army |
| Elisa Hunt Rhodes | kept a diary about life as a soldier in the Union army |
| Fort Wagner | 54th MA showed their bravery and earned the respect of the Union army when they charged this fort |
| Henry and Donelson | the capture of these two forts helped the Union control the TN river system |
| John Wilkes Booth | southerner that killed Lincoln at Ford's Theatre |
| 13th Amendment | officially absolished slavery in the USA |
| 14th Amendment | defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law for African Americans |
| 15th Amendment | gave African American men the right to vote |
| 10% plan | name of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction, it was lenient and made it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union |
| Andrew Johnson | Deomcrat from TN, Lincoln's vice-president and became president after his assassination |
| Andrew Johnson | Plan for reconstruction was too lenient, encouraged states to pass black codes; vetoed legislation passed by Congress |
| Radical Republicans | group of Congressmen whose Reconstruction plan was too harsh on the South; impeached Andrew Johnson |
| Black Codes | laws passed by individual states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans |
| Military Reconstruction Act | Law passed by Congress that divided the Southern states into five military districts until they ratified the 14th and 15th amendments |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Gov't agency that was created to help newly freedment and poor whites with jobs, medical and education |
| Poll tax | state law that requires citizens to pay a fee before they are able to vote |
| Tenure of Office Act | Law passed by Congress and vetoed by Andrew Johnson that said he had to get congress' permission to fire any member of his cabinet |
| Impeachment | to formally charge the president with a crime; a trial is then held in the Senate |
| Freedmen | slaves that had been freed by the 13th Amendment |
| Segregation | the separation of blacks and whites in public places like bathrooms and schools |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed by the southern states that enforced the segregtion of public places |
| William Brownlow | Republican governor of TN during reconstruction, he was very hard on southerners that fought and served with the CS; also owned his newspaper |
| Vigilante | a person that takes justic into their own hands and punishes others without a trial or due process |
| Carpetbaggers | northerners that moved south to help out with or profit from Reconstruction |
| Scalawags | southerner that were Republicans during the reconstruction, often targets of violence |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement that officially ended Reconstruction |
| Compromise of 1877 | deal made between Democrats and Republicans in which Rutherford B. Hayes was made president in exchange for Union troops being removed from Southern states |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican president that officially ended Reconstruction in 1877 |
| Reconstruction | time period 1865-1877 following the Civil war in which the South was rebuilt politically, economically and socially |