Question | Answer |
Copperheads | a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War |
Emancipation Proclamation | The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." |
Total War | a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved. |
War of Attrition | a prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other by a series of small-scale actions. |
Amnesty | an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses. |
Black Codes | were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. |
Carpetbaggers | a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. |
Sharecroppers | a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent. |
Compromise of 1877 | settled the presidential election contest between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden. Hayes waspresident in exchange for the removal of troops from the South |
Reconstruction acts | Of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union |
What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle? | Diseases, yellow fever and sometimes even colds because they were weak from traveling. |
What is the Anaconda Plan? | Was A military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. |
What were Northerners called who sympathized with the South called? | They were called scalawags. |
What were the Jim Crow Laws? | beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. |
What is the Crittenden Compromise? | Was an unsuccessful proposal introduced by United States Senator John J. |
What kind of ruler was George McClellan? | He was a brave leader of the south. |
What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War? | Civil War history shows that the North made ready and effective use of Negros and freedmen only began serving the Confederate Army in 1865. |
What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free? | The 13th Amendment. |
What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry? | It was the regiment was one of the first official African-American units in the United States during the Civil War. |
Where did the South surrender? | On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his beleaguered to Ulysses S. Grant. |
What is Reconstruction? | It was the rebuliding of southern states after the civil war |
Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
What did the 13th Amendment do? | It abolished slavery in some of the southern states |