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USH Civil War Part 2
questions about the civil war, part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Federal fort located in Charelston, South Carolina, where the first shot of the Civil War were fixed | Fort Sumter |
| Northern Civil War strategy to starvethe South by blockading sea ports and controlling the Mississippi River | Anaconda Plan |
| Habeas Corpus | Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed |
| Emancipation Proclamation | decree by the President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in confederate states still in rebellion |
| Battle in 1863 in which Confederate troops were prevented from invading the North and which resulted in more than 50,000 casualties | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Military strategy in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people | total war |
| Speech by President Lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetery at Gettysburg and reaffirmed the ideas for which the Union was fighting | Gettysburg Address |
| Program implemented by the fedral government between 186 and 1877 to repair damage to the South causes by the Civil War and restore the Southern States to the Union | Reconstruction |
| Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the Civil War | Freedmen's Bureau |
| 13th Amendment | 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | 1868 constituational amendment which defined citizensho[ and guarenteed citizens equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | 1870 constitutional amendment that guarenteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude |
| Radical Republican | congressman who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh reconstruction |
| Impeachment | accusation against a public official of wrongdoing in office |
| Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
| Who fought in the Civil War? | Confederate and Union soldiers. |
| Dates of the Civil War | 1861-1865 |