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Ch 7 Civil War

Spalding Academy 10th Grade 2011

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The act of granting a pardon to a large group of people amnesty
Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers black codes
Ship that runs through a blockade, usually to smuggle goods through a protected area blockade runner
Requiring people to enter military service conscription
To search or raid for food forage
Persons freed from slavery freedmen
The acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing politician graft
Authorization to act given to a representative mandate
Indirectly vetoing a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill pocket veto
A military blockade of a city or fortified place to force it to surrender siege
Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in either cash or crops tenant farmer
Who won the 1864 election? Lincoln
Who won the 1868 election? Ulysses S. Grant
Who won the 1872 election? Ulysses S. Grant
Name the new technologies used in the Civil War Conical shaped bullets, improved cannon, ironclad warships
Explain the Anaconda Plan Blockade CSA ports on the Atlantic, isolate the CSA from European aid and trade, Control the Mississippi w/ Union gunboats
What was the major strategy for the CSA? Fight a war of attrition—that is, exhaust the Union forces by always being on the offensive and strike enemy lines for a quick victory
List one important thing about Bull Run I Stonewall Jackson leads CSA to victory, Union realizes war will be longer
List one important thing about Battle of the Ironclads 1st use of ironclad ships, no clear winner, South cannot break Union blockade
List one important thing about Antietam bloodiest 1 day battle in US history
List one important thing about Gettysburg South is on defensive for rest of war
List one important thing about Sherman’s March to the Sea Burns GA from Atlanta to Sea, brought war to the citizens of CSA
What was the 13th amendment? Passed in 1865. Bans slavery in US
What was the 14th amendment? Passed in 1868. All people born in US or naturalized are US citizens.
What was the 15h amendment? Passed in 1870. Cannot deny a citizen’s rights based on race.
What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 entail? South divided into 5 military district, led by a Union general, create a new constitution, all adult males vote, must recognize the 14th amendment
Why was Johnson impeached? Congress passed Tenure of Office Act so that Johnson couldn’t remove Radical Republican Sec of War Edwin Stanton. Johnson fired Stanton. Impeached.
Why did the KKK begin during Reconstruction? What did they do? Southern Democrats mad at blacks, Republicans, and Union. Most Southern gov’ts Republican, blacks getting equal right and voted into Southern gov’t. KKK est in 1886. Terrorize blacks, carpetbaggers, Republicans
What was the Gettysburg address? Why is that document so important even today? 1863 Lincoln dedicates Gettysburg battlefield as cemetery. Underscores equality of all humanity, war is a struggle for freedom, guarantees democracy, unified nation
What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Why was it important? Lincoln frees all slaves in CSA, but not the North. Helps destroy CSA, makes war about slavery (not states rights), freedmen now fight against CSA.
Describe how Reconstruction ended. Controversy over 1876 prez election. South gives election to Republican Hayes. Southerner appointed post master general, $$$ for internal improvements in South, no federal troops in South
Who won the 1876 election? Hayes
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