What term refers to the plan for rebuilding the South after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
What was the original reason that Lincoln joined the war?
Bring the Union back together
How do we remember the North’s strategy to win the war?
Chain – Saw - Seize
Whose plan for Reconstruction said state governments must be disbanded, states must write new constitutions, states had to ratify the 14th Amendment and allow African Americans to vote?
Radical Republicans
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
What amendment freed the slaves?
13th Amendment
What was the name given to laws designed to limit the rights of blacks? The laws were passed immediately after the war.
Black codes
What was the political party of the conservative group in the South that didn’t want the South to change from how it was before the war?
Democrats
Voters had to pay a fee in order to vote.
Poll tax
Name 3 of the 4 S’s that were causes of the Civil War.
Sectionalism, states’ rights, slavery, secession
What was the name given to the government organization designed to help former slaves?
Freedman’s Bureau
What was the capital of the South for most of the war?
Richmond, Virginia
What did the chain stand for in the Northern strategy to win the war?
Blockade the South
What group’s goal was to break the power of rich southern planters?
Radical Republicans
What was another name for the North’s blockade? In other words, it was called the _____ Plan.
Anaconda
What economic problem did both the North and South have to deal with?
Inflation
What was it called when former slaves worked land and in return had to pay off a part of their crop and the cost of rent / seed in return? Most never made enough to pay off their debts.
sharecropping
People could vote if they could read and explain a section of the Constitution.
Literacy test
Group who used violence to harass freedmen.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What happened virtually every time Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill passed by Congress?
Congress overrode the veto
What was the South’s strategy for winning the war?
Fight a defensive war until the North got tired of fighting
What did the saw stand for in the Union plan of victory?
Capture the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in 2
What was the name given to southern Republicans who cooperated with Reconstruction?
Scalawags
What freed the slaves in area under Confederate control?
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the name given to the first battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run
Where did General Lee surrender?
Appomattox Courthouse
Who proposed the 10% Plan of Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
What battle did U.S. Grant win to gain the Mississippi River for the North?
Vicksburg
What amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
15th Amendment
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the focus of the war?
Added freeing slaves to the goals of the war
Why was the South fighting the war?
To save the “Southern way of life” which included slavery
Name given to former slaves.
freedmen
What was it called when the north destroyed everything in its path?
Total war
What did the Seize stand for in the Union plan of victory?
Capture Richmond
What plan of reconstruction said that a person could not participate in government if they volunteered for the Confederate army?
Wade –Davis Bill
What famous African American unit fought courageously at Fort Wagner, South Carolina?
54th Massachusetts
What term means the legal separation of the races?
segregation
A person could vote if their father or grandfather had voted.
Grandfather clause
What was the job of African American soldiers at the beginning of the war?
Laborers only – they were not allowed to fight
Whose plan of reconstruction said that a majority of people had to pledge loyalty to the United States and states had to ratify the 13 th Amendment?
Andrew Johnson
Whose soldiers were called the Rebs?
South
What term refers to the idea that some states believed their interests were more important than the issues of the nation as a whole?
States’ rights
Was Andrew Johnson removed from office when he was impeached?
No
What battle was known as the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner belonged to which political group.
Radical Republicans
Before the Civil War, which section of the country was most for states’ rights?
South
In Lincoln’s plan of slavery, what did the southern governments need to get rid of?
slavery
What was the name of the most famous iron-clad battle?
Monitor vs. Merrimack
Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction for their own personal benefit?
carpetbaggers
What northern general used total warfare in his “march to the sea”?
General William T. Sherman
What amendment made former slaves citizens?
14th Amendment
What was the goal of total war?
Destroy the South’s will to fight
What laws kept African Americans from gaining political and economic power immediately after the war was over?
Black codes
How many slaves were freed immediately by the Emancipation Proclamation?
Zero – Confederate states didn’t consider Lincoln their president and didn’t listen to him so zero
Who was the most famous Confederate General?
Robert E. Lee
Where did the first shooting of the war happen?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Laws which segregated blacks and whites.
Jim Crow Laws
Supreme Court case which made segregation legal if facilities were equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation officially enacted?
January 1, 1863
Which army had the advantage of fighting mostly on their homeland?
South
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Who won the battle of Gettysburg?
North
Whose army fought most of the war in enemy territory?
North
What term means a strong sense of loyalty to a state or nation?
sectionalism
Who made the Gettysburg Address?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the most successful Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
Sharecropping was very similar to what?
slavery
In what year was the Gettysburg Address made?
November 19, 1863
Which army was known as the Federal Army or Billy Yanks?
North
Which side had more industry before the Civil War?
North
Which side had more slavery before the Civil War?
South
What said the Civil War was a test of whether a democratic government could survive?
Gettysburg Address
In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
1865
Which side had a larger population before the Civil War began?
North
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was elected president in 1864?
Abraham Lincoln
Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theater
General Lee surrendered soon after this city was destroyed?
Richmond, Virginia
Who was afraid of competition from freedmen?
Poor in the South and factory workers in the North
What year did the Battle of Gettysburg take place in?
July, 1863
Which army had a better navy when the war began?
North
Who made the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the capital of the North?
Washington D.C.
In 1866 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act granting citizenship to African Americans. What amendment did this create?
14th Amendment