Civil War and Reconstruction (TCI)

How did Southern Democrats discriminate against African Americans after the Reconstruction ended? (more than one answer)

Civil War officially ended at _______ when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant's Union army

Abraham Lincoln temporarily suspended the constitutional right to habeas corpus during the Civil War.

General Grant's terms of surrender included jail time for Confederate Soldiers who had tried to secede from the USA.

What were the three purposes of the Black Codes?

Which of these were strengths of the South ( Confederacy)?

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865?

Period of time after the Civil War when Northern troops occupied the South.

Which General ordered his troops to march through Atlanta and burn everything in sight?

written order from a court that gives the person the right to a trial before being jailed.

Battle of Antietam was the...

Lincoln gave a famous speech to the nation at this battle in Virginia. It was two minutes long.

a conflict between two peoples in ONE country is called _____

What was a carpetbagger?

Who was president during the Civil War?

13TH AMENDMENT

Compromise of 1877

Series of laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites after the Civil War.

What is the name of the Northern States when talking about the Civil War?

Where did most of the Civil War take place?

Which of these were new technologies used in the Civil War?

The 15th Amendment gives

the act of freeing people from slavery

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln's death?

Names of the first two ironclad ships that battled against each other, no winner but ended the use of wooden battleships

What were some of the strengths of the North during the Civil War? ( more than one)

What did the amnesty act of 1872 do?

After the Compromise of 1877, life became better for African Americans in the South.

Most Famous African American Regiment during the Civil War

practice of renting land from plantation owner in exchange for paying 1/3-1/2 of their crops to the landowner.

White terrorist organization formed after Civil War, in order to drive African American groups out of political life.

Black Codes were ....

The Southerners who seceded from the North formed their own government. It was called the _________

This Supreme Court case on behalf of Homer Plessy, ruled that "separate but equal" was constitutional.

system for requiring citizens to join their country's armed forces, also called conscription

This organization was established by Congress in 1865 to assist former slaves with food, medical care, education & land

The Fourteenth amendment_____

white southerners who supported federal government after the Civil War, were called this by pro-Confederacy southerners

How did women support the war? ( more than one answer)

North gained control of this Mississipi river front town, split the MS River in 1/2, signaling the downfall of the South

rights guaranteed by the Consitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law.