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Unit 12
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Election of 1860 | Led Southern states to leave the Union and form the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | First shots of the Civil War were fired here |
| Jefferson Davis | President of Confederate States of America |
| Border States | Slaves states that remained in the Union like Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, and West Virginia |
| John C Breckinridge | Southern Democratic candidate in the Election of 180 |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican candidate and winner of the Election of 1860 and opposed the spread of slavery |
| John Bell | Presidential candidate in 1860 for the Constitutional Union Party and stood for peaceful compromise to hold the Union together |
| First Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War; Southern Victory; showed that the war would be long and costly for both sides |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy for winning the war; blockade the South, and divide the Confederacy, and capture the capital, Richmond |
| Winfield Scott | Union general that was old but he came up with the Anaconda Plan |
| Blockade | Prevents a nation from trading or communicating with another nation by sea |
| Shiloh | Battle in southwestern Tennessee that shocked the country with its heavy casualties |
| Antietam | Fought in Maryland, stopped the first Confederate invasion to the North, and after this battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg | Turning point in the Civil War, convinced England and France to not ally with the South |
| Vicksberg | Capture of this city led to the capture of the Miss river and Grant officially divided the Confederacy in half |
| March to the Sea | Union army led by William Sherman waged the total war on the people of Georgia to break their will to support the Confederate 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 Confederate Army officially surrendered to Grant and the Union Army at his place on April 9, 1865 |
| David Farragut | Union admiral from Tennessee, responsible for the blockade of the Confederacy |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | Confederate calvary commander that used guerilla warfare on the Union army Mississippi and Tennessee |
| Ulysses S Grant | Union commander that finally defeated Robert E Lee and won the war |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate general responsible for the forces defending Richmond |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general that saved the day at the First Bull Run and earned a famous nickname |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Order issued by Lincoln that officially freed the slaves in the Confederate states but not the border states |
| Gettysburg Address | Brief speech given by Lincoln that summed up the goals of the war and honored the dead |
| 54th Massachusetts | The first all black regiment to fight in the Union army |
| Nashville | The 13th colored Troops helped to destroy the Confederate Army in Tennessee at his battle |
| Sam Watkins | A soldier from Clarksville that kept a journal about his experiences in the Confederate Army |
| Elisha Hunt Rhodes | He kept a diary about life as a solider in the Union Army |
| Fort Wagner | 54th Massachusetts showed their bravery and earned the respect of the Union army when they changed this fort |
| Henry and Donelson | The capture of these two forts helped the Union control Tennessee River system |
| John Wilkes Booth | Southerner that assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre |
| 13th Amendment | Officially abolished slavery in the US |
| 14th Amendment | Defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law for African Americans |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African American men the right to vote |
| Ten Percent Plan | Name of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction |
| Andrew Johnson | Democrat from Tennessee who's plan for reconstruction was to encourage states to pass black codes |
| Radical Republicans | Group of congressman whose Reconstruction plan was too harsh on the South |
| 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 |
| Freedom's Bureau | Government agency that was created to help newly freedmen 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 Jackson 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 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 | Law passed by the southern states that enforced the segregation of public places |
| William Brownlow | Republican governor of Tennessee during Reconstruction; hard on southerners that fought and served with the Confederacy; and has his own newspaper |
| Vigilante | A person that takes justice 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 |
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