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Civil War/Reconst
The Civil War thru Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first capital of the Confederacy | Montgomery Alabama |
| the first major battle of the Civil War | the first battle of Bull Run or the battle of Manassas |
| The confederate officer who received hos nickname at the first battle of Bull Run and what was the nickname | Gen. Thomas Jackson, Stonewall |
| The South won the battle in a route but the significance of the battle was that it was the first time in the history of warfare that | troops were moved by train |
| Twice as many RR tracks and factories, a balanced economy, more money in banks, a functioning government, an existing army and navy and more men and supplies were all | advantages of the North |
| The Union general who was entirely too cautious when commanding | McClellan |
| blockade developed by Winfield Scott, knew it would take some time to build army and blockade of sea ports and control of Mississippi could choke off South and force them to seek peace without bloody warplan was ridiculed by media and called the | Anaconda Plan |
| The First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Shiloh proved that the | war would be long and difficult. |
| One of the South's military strategy was when one side inflicts continuous losses on the enemy in order to wear down its strength and this is called a | war of attrition |
| The Union fighting in the west attacked forts on the Mississippi to gain control of the important water route, the first two forts that the Union captured were Fort ______ and Fort __________ | Henry and Donelson |
| The southern Ironclad was named the _________ or the Virginia and the Northern Ironclad was called the ______________ | Merrimack, Monitor |
| The impact of the two Ironclads was that they made wooden ships or navies __________ | obsolete |
| __________________- was appointed commander of the Army of Northern Virginia | Robert E Lee |
| Lincoln urged General McClellan to attack the Confederate capital of | Richmond Virginia |
| The south understood that they need help from Europe and they hoped to convince both __________ and _________ to come to the confederacy's aid | Britain and France |
| After the battle of seven pines, the seven day's battle and the second battle of Bull Run, the Union finally achieved its first major victory at _____________- | Antietam or Sharpsburg |
| a direct result of the battle of antietam was the issuance of the __________________ ________________ | Emancipation Proclamation |
| The Emancipation Proclamation AS WRITTEN freed all slaves, slaves in areas controlled by the union or slaves in areas controlled by the confederacy | slaves in areas controlled by the confederacy |
| In theory the Proclamation actually ferred | no one |
| One effect of the proclamation was the ecouragement of ____________________________ to join the army | African Americans |
| MOST SIGNIFICANT impact of the Proclamation was the European reaction, Proclamation coupled with Lee’s ___________ defeat ended any real chance that France and Great Britain would intervene in the war | Antietam |
| General Benjamin Butler devised a legal argument allowing Union army to free captured or escaped slaves, since slaves were property he declared them __________ which meant that they were seized property of the enemy | contraband |
| By 1865 over 180,000 African Americans had joined the union | Army |
| One of the most famous African American units was the 54th ____________ | Massachusetts |
| The Southhad an infamous prison camp in Georgia where many union soldiers died because of mistreatment. The prison was in _______________ Georgia | Andersonville |
| The first major battle after Antietam was ____________________ where the union leader was General Ambrose Burnsides and he foolishly led his men directly in front of Lee's army and were soundly defeated | Fredericksburg |
| At the battle of Chancellorsville the South again soundly defeated the North but it was a costly victory as ____________ ____________ was accidentally killed by his own men | Stonewall Jackson |
| The Union was at a low point and there was talk that Lincoln might resign, Lee hoped that a victory on Northern soil would push Union into giving up war and he marched North into Pa and ran into rebel calvary at the town of ________________ | Gettysburg |
| Gettsburg was a three day battle and is considered the _________ _________ of the war | turning point |
| On July 4th 1863,after a siege of the city, Grant was able to finally capture Vicksburg and when Port Hudson surrendered the Union gained control of the ________________ and the confederacy was split in two | the Mississippi |
| On November 19th 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a two minute set of remarks that became one of the most famous American speeches ever made, it is known as | The Gettysburg address |
| The startegy for the Confederacy in 1864 was too just _________ _____ | hold on |
| Approaching the election of 1864 and a potential to lose, Lincoln needed victories and he appointed _________________ as commander of the Union forces | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Grants plan was to _________ the South by November and he appointed ____________________ to command the army in the West | CRUSH,William Tecumsuh Sherman |
| Sherman fighting in Georgia forced the South to fight, he laid siege to Atlanta and captured the city, He believed that he needed to be cruel to end the war and he _________ Atlanta | burned |
| Sherman and troops left a 300 mile path of ________________ across Georgia, destroying everything including livestock, captured grain for union soldiers | destruction |
| In the election of 1864 Lincoln chose a new running mate _______________ of Tennessee who replaced Hannibal Hamlin to broaden Lincoln’s appeal | Andrew Johnson |
| In the election of 1864 the Democrats nominated __________ who promised a negotiated end to the war, had support of troops and didn’t like Lincoln | George McClellan |
| The capture of Atlanta changed the mood of the Northerners who were less willing to accept a negotiated settlement and ____________ won easily gaining 212 of 233 electoral votes- Victory showed approval of war policy and | Lincoln |
| In February 1865 the _________________ was passed by Congress, ratified by states and became law December 18, 1865 and ENDED SLAVERY | THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT |
| Sherman moved toward South Carolina and had two goals, to destroy the remaining resources and to crush the Southern will to ___________ | fight |
| by April 1865 desertion had shrunk Confederate army to less than 35,000 to defend Richmond, Lee knew he could not win Grant kept cutting Lee off on April 9th Lee arrived at ________________________in Virginia surrounded by large Union force | Appomattox Court House |
| On April 14th 1865, Lincoln attended a show at Ford's theater, during the show he was shot by ___________________________ and died the next morning | John Wilkes Booth |
| The Governments plan to restore Southern states to the Union is the definition of | Reconstruction |
| In the postwar south there were three groups of people, Plantation owners ho lost their slaves, poor white southerners who were now competing with freedmen for jobs and ________ ____________ who were homeless, jobless and hungry | freed slaves |
| There were two reconstruction plans, Lincolns was known as the ______ plan which was forgiving to the South | 10% |
| The Congress 1864 passed a stricter Reconstruction plan The _____________ Act required all confederate men to take an oath of past and future loyalty – they never willingly bore arms against U.S.,LINCOLN let bill die pocket veto, six wweks later he died | Wade Davis |
| Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson had his own Reconstruction Plan known as _____________________________, plan more generous to South than Lincoln | Presidential Reconstruction |
| In March 1865 the _________________________ was established to help Black men adjust to freedom, the first federal relief agency in United States History, lacked strong support in Congress, dismantled 1869 | Freedman's bureau |
| The Radical Republicans opposed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, saying it was too | lenient on the South |
| The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in providing | clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people. |
| In their Reconstruction policies, both President Lincoln and President Johnson insisted upon | Southern approval of the Thirteenth Amendment. |
| In their Reconstruction policies, both President Lincoln and President Johnson insisted that the South | obey all Federal laws pertaining to slavery |
| The Southern States first order of business was to enact black Codes, laws that restricted freedmen’s rights These laws included: vagrancy laws, labor contracts, land restrictions and | curfews |
| Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by passing | black codes |
| In 1866 Congress passed Civil Rights Act outlawing Black Codes, Congress fear that Act would be struck down in Courts built equal rights into the ____________________, which was a protection of civil rights and a definition of citizenship | 14th Amendment |
| __________________-- is defined as citizens personal liberties guaranteed by law, like voting rights and equal treatment | Civil Rights |
| Johnson urged states not to ratify the 14th amendment, Voters angry swept radical republicans into office, Radicals could now implement their own Reconstruction plan, they passed the _________________ of 1867 | Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
| an important provision of the Radical Republicans’ Reconstruction Act of 1867 was the South was placed | under military rule. |
| The battle between Johnson nad Thaddeus Stevens was a battle between Legislative and Executive branches of government, a test of the system of ________ and ________ established by Constitution | checks and balances |
| passed by Congress 1867, this act placed limits on Presidential power to hire and fire government officials | The Tenure of Office Act |
| Johnson per the Congress violated this act by firing Edwin Stanton and he was _________ but not convicted by one vote | impeached |
| Johnson's not guilty verdict set a ___________ by establishing that only the most serious crimes and not merely a dispute with Congress could remove a President from office | precedent |
| This general was elected President in 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| No citizen could be denied right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude is the ______ amendment passed by the radical republicans in February 1869, ratified in February 1870 | 15th |
| In the interim elections of 1870 southern whites stayed home, there were troops in place and southern blacks voted, mostly republican, many republicans and freedmen were voted into office, over _____ African Americans elected to Southern Legislatures | 600 |
| Radical reconstruction basically two groups of people who wanted to prosper , they were ____________ and ________ | carpetbaggers, scalawags |
| Northern Republicans who moved South postwar, implied that they were there just for profit from South’s misery, depicted as greedy men seeking to grab power or make quick buck and SOME WERE, Historians pointed out that most were honest educated men | carpetbaggers |
| white, a southerner and a Republican was to be a traitor, called __________ a Scottish word meaning ‘scrawny cattle’, | scalawags |
| The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to | prevent African Americans from exercising their rights. |
| As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to | reverse reconstruction reforms |
| The goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to | help former slaves adjust to freedom. |
| Which was a characteristic of agriculture in the South after the Civil War? | cash crops |
| over 1/2 the confederate army was lost in this attle at Gettysburg | Picketts charge |
| In 1874 Mississippi sent former slave to Senate he was the first African American to serve in the Senate, his name was | Blanche K. Bruce |
| There were 51,ooo casualties at the battle of | Gettysburg |
| Lincoln denied pardons to any southerners who killed African American War prisoners and also to Confederate __________ and _____________ _____________ | military and government officials |
| the Slave states that stayed with the Union were known as _________ _________ | Border States |
| major pieces of Reconstruction included the 13th 14th and 15th amendments, Civil Rights Acts, Reconstruction Acts and the ____________ Bureau | Freedmans |
| farmed a portion of the planters land, as payment family promised a share of the crop at harvest, 1/3 to ½, housing usually provided by planter was called | sharecropping |
| In March of 1870 the last southern states were __________ to the Union | restored |
| In 1866 this was originally a social club | The KKK |
| Congress passed a series of anti-Klan laws in 1870 and 1871, the _______ Act 1870 banned the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent people from voting because of their race | Force |
| ______________ came to symbolize corruption, greed and poor government | Reconstruction |
| _________________ was wasliy re-elected in 1872 | Grant |
| Reconstruction politics sour turn election of 1876, - Republican Rutherford B. Hayes lost popular vote to democrat Samuel Tilden but electoral vote was disputed, the Democrats agreed to give Hayes the victory he had not clearly won, This was called the | The Compromise of 1877 |
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