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History 21-23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Explain how the contentious Hayes/Tilden election brought an end to the reconstruction? | A constitution was made. The democrats accepted to end the reconstruction |
| Where was the site of the first shot of the Civil War? | Fort Sumpter |
| What is the term to go away ? | secede |
| What date was Fort Sumpter attacked? | April 19, 1861 |
| Year of the battle of fredricksburg? | 1862 |
| Civil War - Approximately how many deaths? | 620,000 |
| Date of surrender in the civil war? | April 9, 1865 |
| Battle of Fredricksburg | Lee's army took control of a hill outside of town. Union had to get across a river and up the hill to attack Lee. They were able to "rain down" on the union army killing over 13,000. |
| What Amendment do slaves have citizenship | 14th |
| What Amendment are slaves free? | 13th |
| What Amendment do the slaves have the right to vote? | 15th |
| Scallywags | Southerners who supported reconstruction and the Republican party |
| Carpet Baggers | Opportunists from the north hoping to make a buck on the south |
| Stonewall Jackson | his troops stood like a stone wall and he rode like a stone |
| Black 47 | Irish people during the potato famine and came to America and were fighting against each other because they took whatever job came up |
| Carnagee | Founded the steel monopoly |
| Rockofeller | Created the gas industry and monopolized it |
| Monopoly | Where one business takes over an industry and makes it hard for anyone else to be able work in it |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Proclaimed 3.5 million slaves in the confederate states to be free. if they ran way or through the Union army, they were considered free |
| General George Meade | Union General in the battle of Gettysburg. Had a camp on a ridge with cannons and defeated Lee and the confederates there |
| Sherman March to the Sea | 1864 - he marched a Union army from Atlanta to the Atlantic and killed everyone who was in their way and against the union. Slaves were freed. This was bad for the Confederate economy and had them questioning the war |
| John Wilks Booth | Assonated President Lincoln when watching the play Our American Cousins at Ford's Theatre. Booth sympathized with the southerners |
| Gilded Age | Age where people would mask their belongings in gold |
| KKK | Ku Klux Klan - White supremacy; Hang people and kill them (carpetbaggers); disliked Lincoln and his rules |
| General Lee | Asked by Lincoln to be his general. But he said no because he would not fight against his homeland. Well known leader of the confederats |
| 3 Confederate Army Weaknesses | 1. Could not replace people who died 2. Did not have good weaponry because the weapon industry in north 3. Economy was strained because battles in south |
| Lincoln's Plan vs. what happened | Lincoln - He wanted confederates to come back to the union What happened - Confederates stayed their way and slaves were free |
| Why did the 11 sucede? | Because they disliked what Abe Lincoln was standing for with slavery |
| What happened on April 12, 1861? | Civil War Started |
| Why was Fort Sumpter Attacked? | Pg. 204 in book |
| Why didn't Lee not expect to lead? | He did not want to attack his hometown of Virginia |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | Pg. 207 - It proclaimed the 3.5 million slaves throughout the confederacy to be free |
| Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | General for the Union; Swinging gate - So split his men in half and said this half is swinging down to make it look like another division coming and won the battle |
| Picket's Charge | Confederate whose men when charging the union, ran into a big fence that needed to be taken down. was hard to do and lost a lot of men. Union won that battle and general lee said gather up your men you are going again and he said he had no division |
| What day did John Wilks Booth assonate President Lincoln? | April 14, 1865 |
| William Seward | he was sick in bed and person wanted to kill him with medicine and his daughter saw it and he survived |
| What is Reconstruction? | Bringing confederate states back into the union but they needed ratify 3 amendments for that to happen |
| What is the transcontinental railroad? | Completed in 1869 and connected the USA from the atlantic to the pacific |
| What was the problem with industry? | Factories were unfit for humans being so dirty and unsafe; Rivers were being polluted; Cities were overpopulated; |
| What did the Seceded states form? | CSA - Confederate States of America - Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, SC, NC, Virginia |
| Who was Jefferson Davis? | He was the Confederate President who wanted the CSA to be an independant country |
| Who won the battle of Bull Run? | Confederates |
| What Battle happened on May 12, 1863? | Battle of Channellorsville |
| When was the battle of Gettysburg? | July 1-3, 1863 |
| What year was Johnson impeached? | 1868 because of treason, high crimes and other misdimeanors |