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Social Studies
Recontruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the north referred to as? | The union |
| Who was the president of the north? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who was the commander of the north? | Ulysses S. Grant |
| What were two strengths of the north? | Industrial/ had factories to produce materials and had a strong navy |
| What was one weakness that the north had? | Had a weak military |
| What was the south referred to as? | The Confederacy |
| Who was the president of the south? | Jefferson Davis |
| Who was the commander of the south? | Robert E. Lee |
| What were two strengths of the south? | Had better knowledge of the land and were more motivated |
| What was one weakness that the south had? | They didn't have a lot of money |
| What was the battle of Bull Run? | -1st battle of the Civil War -showed that the war would last long |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | -1863 -Order by Lincoln declaring that all slaves in the Confederate States were free |
| What was the Gettysburg Address? | -1863 -Speech given by Lincoln to the people who had died in the Civil War |
| What is total war? | -Using any kind of tactics in order to destroy so that the enemy will surrender |
| What were the goals of reconstruction? | 1. Fixing the damage in the south 2. Rejoin the Southern states 3. Help the freedman 4. Fix the Southern government and economy |
| Who were the freedman? | Former slaves |
| What was the Freedman's Bureau? | The US government gave them clothes, food, jobs, and legal help |
| What was amnesty? | When you forgive for the crimes you have done |
| What was the 13th Amendment? | It ended slavery |
| What was the 14th Amendment? | Gave citizenship and equal protection to black people |
| What was the 15th Amendment? | Gave black men the right to vote |
| Who was a Scalawag? | Used by Southerners to call other Southerns who supported rights for African Americans (not a nice term) |
| Who were Carpetbaggers? | Name used for Northerners who came to the South to help the freedman (not a nice term) |
| What were the Black Codes? | -Southern laws that limited freed black people rights -Restriction on where they could live or work |
| What was Sharecropping? | -A farmer rented land and borrowed supplies, grew crops, paid the landowner, but always owed to that landowner |
| What was the KKK? | -hate group founded after the Civil War and they used violence to murder black Americans |
| How did reconstruction end? | The Compromise of 1877 |
| What was the Compromise of 1877? | Allowed Hayes to be president but Hayes ended reconstruction by removing US troops |
| What were the Jim Crow laws? | They legalized segregation |
| What were poll taxes? | You had to pay to vote |
| What were literacy tests? | You had to pass a test to vote |
| What was the grandfather clause? | If your grandfather could vote then you could vote |
| What was the court case Plessy vs. Ferguson(1896)? | The Supreme Court allowed segregation |
| What does impeach mean? | To charge the president with a crime |
| What were the Reconstruction Acts? | To rebuild Southern governments and protect the rights of enslaved people |
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