Civil War & Reconstruction

Ex-Confederates/Redeemers forcing out Rep. Party and having only the Dem. Party in the South

Announced after Antietam & made the war about a moral cause

Most Civil War soldiers died off the battlefield due to...

Wanted blacks to earn their equality by getting an education and gaining skills

A Northerner who migrates to the South for $$$$

Divided the South into districts & forced them to ratify the 14th Amendment and protect the right to vote for blacks

Lincoln asked the country in the Gettysburg Address to

Lee surrender to Grant @

What was one of the South's main advantages?

Wanted blacks to have immediate equality

Why is the Battle of Ft. Sumter important?

Stated that the South was harming itself by having slavery

Southerners had a fierce devotion to

Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected slavery

Supreme Court said segregation did not violate the Constitution

Blockade Ports, Capture Capital, Take the MS

Marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Sherman's March effectively destroyed Georgia due to his use of

Which of these was a weakness of the South going into the Civil War?

Bloodiest Battle of the War

Which Amendment gave birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law?

Copperheads

All of the following were ways in which the slave tradition was kept alive in the South, EXCEPT

The South expected support from Britain and France because they relied on the South for what?

Radical Republicans......

Under the Compromise of 1877...

The Radical Republicans hated President Andrew Johnson, because he

The Battle of Bull Run showed the ___________ that the war would be ______________

What were black codes?

Britain almost entered the war

What do the poll tax, grandfather clause and literacy test have in common?

Exodusters; steam ship captains eventually stopped transporting them

The Reconstruction period is generally considered a failure when it came to...

At first, Lincoln said the the war's purpose was

Northern city where opposition to laws requiring military service led to race riots

Critical of Northern "Wage Slaves" and protected slavery in the South as "Family"

The Ku Klux Klan was effective in achieving their goals, because they

Why did the Union want to control the Mississippi River and its tributaries?

The "Talented Tenth" would

When poor farmers got credit from land or store owners at high interest often leading to debt

How did popular sovereignty effect Kansas and Nebraska?

Bloodiest Single Day of the War

The South thought it had the right to secede to

What is a scalawag?

The first black U.S. Senator during Reconstruction

All of the following are consequences of the Civil War except...

The South suffer most of the destruction bc

Result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

One of Lincoln's more controversial moves

The issue of slavery in new territory gained from the war with Mexico was settled by

Saved lives and shorten the war bc of the devastation & psychological warfare

Said the South was a "Conquered Provinces" and forfeited it rights when they seceded?

What organization was formed in the U.S. as part of the Civil War?

Ended slavery in the United States

After Lincoln was assassinated, ____________ took over reconstruction.

This battle split the Confederacy & the North took control of the MS.

The reason for Johnson's Impeachment charge

The KKK was started as..

Detailed the cruelties of slavery

How was the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction different from President Johnson's?

The Freedmen's Bureau helped provide

They were able to attack the Union shipping

Led a raid at Harpers' Ferry, Virginia?

Which amendment gave voting rights to African American males?

Kept blacks in an inferior & separate position

How did Sharecroppers pay for the land and tools they needed?

Required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners?

Freedmen and poor white rented land and gave a portion of the crops/cash to the landowner