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Study guide for Unit 1

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Copperheads   Northern Democrats who sympathized with the South.  
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Emancipation Proclamation   Made by President Lincoln it stated that all slaves living in areas still rebelling against the United States would be free.  
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Total War   A military strategy where you not only wage war against enemy troops but at their economic resources as well.  
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Amnesty   Pardon to states that swore loyalty to the Union.  
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Black Codes   Codes that limited the freedom of African Americans after the civil war.  
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Carpet Baggers   Northern Republicans who came to participate in state conventions in the South.  
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Sharecroppers   A way for farmers to solve their labor problems. Under this system a farmer would work a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop, cabin, seed, tools, and a mule.  
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Compromise of 1877   In return for the Democrats' acceptance of Hayes as president, the Rupublicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the South.  
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Reconstruction Acts   Acts that were supposed to help rebuild the South.  
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What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle?   Disease, infection, and malnutrition  
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What is the Anaconda Plan?   A naval blockade that was designed to slowly squeeze the life out of the South.  
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What were Northerners called who sympathized with the South called?   Copperheads  
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What were the Jim Crow Laws?   State legislation that enforced segregation  
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What is the Crittenden Compromise?   A compromise that called for the old Missouri Compromise line to be drawn west through the remaining territories; North of the line, slavery would be illegal and south of the line slavery could expand.  
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What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson?   A court case that upheld segregation saying that "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.  
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Who were the South relying on to help in the Civil War? ( 2 Countries in Europe)   France and Great Britain.  
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Who led the South in the Battle of Shiloh?   Albert Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard  
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What kind of ruler was George McClellon? (Reluctant or Brave)   Reluctant  
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What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War?   July 1862  
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What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free?   Emancipation Proclamation  
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What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry?   An Infantry that consisted of the first African American soldiers that were recruited by the Union.  
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Where did the South surrender?   A Virginia village in the Appomattox Courthouse.  
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What is Reconstruction?   The rebuilding of the South.  
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Who killed Abraham Lincoln?   John Wilkes Booth  
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What did the 13th Amendment do?   An amendment passed by Congress in January 1865 to abolish slavery.  
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