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