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History Exam Review Sheet #4

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Sherman   helped grant at shiloh; union general, famous for his "neckties"  
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Champion Hill   battle between the south at vicksburg and the north at jackson; grant and pemberton  
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bruinsburg   where grant crossed the river on his march  
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grant   union general; nickname was unconditional surrender; later became president  
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richmond   2nd capital of the confederacy  
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grierson   yankee raider who created a diversion for pemberton to fight by raiding all through ms  
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arkansas   ironclad boat for the confederacy that was not good  
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brown   commander of the arkansas  
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april 6/7,1862   battle of shiloh happened on these dates; on the first day the south won and on the second day the north won leading them to win entire battle  
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july 4,1863   the south surrendered at vicksburg on this date because of starvation; the south surrendered at gettysburg around this time too  
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siege of vicksburg   this lasted 47 days; this was when grant took over all of vicksburg  
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brices crossroads   battle at a crossroads where the south had a victory  
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robert e lee   commander of all southern troops  
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emancipation proclamation   lincoln passed this in 1863 saying that all SOUTHERN slaves be freed  
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confederate   the south in the Civil War; democrats; Gray; *blank* states of america; all the states that seceded  
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yankee   north side of Civil War; Blue; Union  
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nullification   making something not have power; stopping something  
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tariff   an unfair tax on imports  
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free states   states that didnt have slavery  
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slave states   states that permitted slavery  
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Pettus   governor of ms at the start of the Civil war -elected in 1859  
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van dorn   southern general  
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corinth   battles were fought here; objective of grant before v-burg; known for railroads  
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boll weevil   invaded ms in 1955 and really hurt cotton  
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lynching   killing of blacks to intimidate; many times done by KKK  
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sharecropping   a system where someone would work on land that they didnt own  
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Emit Till   black boy killed in 1955 because he whistled at a white woman  
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Ft. Sumter   the start of the Civil War began here  
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secession   states who left the Union  
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popular sovereignty   where the people get to vote  
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Farragut   sailed up from NO as an attempt to take Vicksburg  
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states rights   the rights of states to make their own decisions  
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the election of 1860   Lincoln won; republican; caused secession  
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freedmen   free slaves  
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Freedmen's Bureau   an organization set up to help the former slaves who had never been free before  
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carpetbaggers   Republicans who came to the south with only bags made of old carpets to help the freedmen  
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"chimneyville"   the nickname for Jackson after it got burned down  
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scalawags   Southern white republicans who helped slaves  
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13th   this amendment set blacks free  
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14th   this amendment gave blacks full citizenship  
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15th   this amendment gave blacks the right to vote  
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Deomocrats   a political party that is for slavery and is made of whites; the KKK  
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KKK or Ku Klux Klan   started by N. B. Forrest; this group used intimidation to gain back control of MS after reconstruction  
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Redeemers   another name for democrats  
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Revels   1st black man in the US Senate  
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cyclop   local leader of the KKK  
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1865 Black Codes   laws that basically put freedmen back into slavery  
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Const. of 1865   this put the black codes of 1865 in place  
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suffrage   voting rights  
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Gen. Ord   in charge of the 4th military district of the new military government  
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disfranchise   to take away someone's right to vote  
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Const. of 1890   this document helped the Democrats come back to rule in MS  
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Bruce   1st black man to serve a full term in the US Senate  
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reapportionment   the redrawing of voting lines  
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poll tax   the $2 fee to vote  
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segregation   the separation of races  
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integration   the coming together of races  
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