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| 573431504 | 13th amendment | • Passed in 1865 • Slavery outlawed in U.S. | 0 | |
| 573431505 | 14th amendment | • Guaranteed equality for all citizens | 1 | |
| 573431506 | 15th amendment | • Passed in 1869 • Forbidding any state from denying suffrage | 2 | |
| 573431507 | 1876 election | • pitted Ohio Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against New York Democrat Samuel Tilden | 3 | |
| 573431508 | Anaconda Plan | • 1861: Devised by General Winfield Scott • Starve South by blockading seaports & controlling the MS River • Union forces drive southward along MS --> split Confederacy in 2 | 4 | |
| 573431509 | Appomattox Court House | • Town where Lee & his starving soldiers were trapped in • Lee surrenders to Grant there | 5 | |
| 573431510 | Battle of Antietam | • 1862: bloodiest single day of the Civil War • Lee retreated to Virginia • Union losses exceeded Confederate losses • This gave Lincoln what he needed to draft emancipation • Killed/wounded 23,000 troops | 6 | |
| 573431511 | Battle of Bull Run | • July 1861 • General Scott sent General Ivan McDowell & more than 30,000 Union troops to do battle with Confederate forces waiting outside Washington • In Manassas, Virginia • Proved a shock to those who had hoped the war would end quickly | 7 | |
| 573431512 | Battle of Gettysburg | • Allowed General Meade to bring up rest of his army & strengthen Union position • 50,000 dead & wounded | 8 | |
| 573431513 | Battle of Vicksburg | • military tactics in which an army surrounds, bombards, & cuts of all supplies to an enemy position in order to force its surrender • May 22, 1863: Grant placed this under siege • This weakened the defenders out of it & led to surrender to the Union/split the states in half | 9 | |
| 573431514 | Black Codes | • Rights of AA's & keep them as landless workers | 10 | |
| 573431515 | Carpetbaggers | • Newcomers into the South | 11 | |
| 573431516 | Civil Rights Act of 1866 | • Grants citizenship to AA's & outlaws black nodes | 12 | |
| 573431517 | Compromise of 1850 | • Another effort to ward off division • Based on Henry Clay's proposal of an agreement between North and South • CA entered as a free state • Slavery issue was decided in the UT & NM by popular sovereignty • Slave trade ended in D.C. but not slavery | 13 | |
| 573431518 | Compromise of 1877 | • Congress charged with mediating voting crisis • Created commission of 5 senators, 5 representatives, and 5 Supreme Court Justices • Hayes was elected president Federal troops are withdrawn from the South. Hayes agrees to appoint the federal government/cabinet Guaranteed federal subsidies to build railroads Hayes agrees to be a 1 term president | 14 | |
| 573431519 | Conscription | • Drafting of citizens into military service | 15 | |
| 573431520 | Dred Scott decision | • U.S. Supreme court ruled in the case of Missouri slave - he was sued for his freedom • Predicted that the decision would actually hasten the end of slavery | 16 | |
| 573431521 | Emancipation Proclamation | • Decree by Lincoln that freed slaves living on Confederate states still in rebellion • Drafted on Sept. 22, 2012 • Didn't apply to loyal border states or places already under Union Military Control | 17 | |
| 573431522 | Enforcement Act | • Made in 1870-1871 | 18 | |
| 573431523 | • "KKK Act" | • Federal offense to interfere with a citizens right to vote | 19 | |
| 573431524 | Freedman's Bureau | • Goal to provide food, clothing, healthcare, & education for black/white refugees in the South • Established a precedent that black citizens had legal rights | 20 | |
| 573431525 | Ft. Sumter | • Federal fort located in Charleston, SC, where the first shots of Civil War were fired • Guarded the harbor at Charleston, SC • January 1861: President Buchanan tried to send troops/supplies to the fort, but the unarmed ship sailed away when Confederate guns were fired at • Lincoln had to decide whether to surrender or not by April • Food/supplies were needed at fort • Lincoln only sent food to fort --> Civil War starts | 21 | |
| 573431526 | General Grant | • Union general that led troops • Won last battle of Richmond • Head of Union army | 22 | |
| 573431527 | General Lee | • Surrendered to Grant in Richmond • Head of Confederate army | 23 | |
| 573431528 | General Sherman | • Unleashes total war • Goals of Total War: Break up the people's will to continue fighting Destroy materials and crops that enemy forces might use Destroy railroads & factors to damage local economy Strike military & civilian targets • Union | 24 | |
| 573431529 | Homestead Act | • 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years | 25 | |
| 573431530 | Jefferson Davis | • President of Confederacy • Had strong leadership, but Confederacy lacked manpower & manufacturing capability to defeat the Union | 26 | |
| 573431531 | John Wilkes Booth | • Assassinated Lincoln • Confederate supporter | 27 | |
| 573431532 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | • Created potential for slavery in Kansas and Nebraska territories by allowing for popular sovereignty • Significance: bill overturned the MO Compromise & caused further division & led to the creation of Republican Party • Opened Kansas & Nebraska in several northern states that allowed slave catchers to be arrested for kidnapping | 28 | |
| 573431533 | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | • Roamed countryside burning homes, schools, and churches causing terror | 29 | |
| 573431534 | Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan | • Three Major Issues of Reconstruction "How Will Southern States Rejoin the Union?" "How Will the Southern Economy be Rebuilt?" "What Rights Will African Americans Have?" • Ten Percent Plan - 10% of a state's voters took loyal oath of allegiance to the Union • Wanted to reunite the states and based his plan on forgiveness | 30 | |
| 573431535 | President Grant | • 1868 - elected president • Democrat | 31 | |
| 573431536 | President Johnson's impeachment | • Tenure of Office Act - limiting terms of president - violated it • Needed approval to remove certain officials from office • Radicals failed to win 2/3s of a majority necessary in the Senate to remove Johnson from office | 32 | |
| 573431537 | President Johnson's Reconstruction | • Didn't want AA's to have rights • Black codes - limit the rights of AA's & keep them as landless workers | 33 | |
| 573431538 | Radical Republicans | • Insisted that Confederates had committed a crime by enslaving Africans & entangling the nation in war • Advocated full citizenship for AA's • Favored punishment/harsh terms for South • Supported Sherman's plan to confiscate Confederates' land to give farms to freedmen • Leaders: Thaddeus Stevens & Senator Charles Sumner | 34 | |
| 573431539 | Reconstruction Acts of 1867 | • Divided 10 southern states into 5 military districts formed by Union generals | 35 | |
| 573431540 | Scalawags | • White men who'd been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by wealthier neighbors | 36 | |
| 573431541 | Sharecropping | • Land owner dictated the crop & provided with: • a place to live • seeds & tools • All in return for a "share" of the harvested crop | 37 | |
| 573431542 | Siege | • Military tactic • An enemy cuts is surrounded & all supplies are cut off in an attempt to force a surrender | 38 | |
| 573431543 | Stonewall | • Thomas J. Jackson • Confederates nicknamed their hero in honor of his refusal to yield to the Union armies | 39 | |
| 573431544 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | • written by Harriet Beecher Stowe • Antislavery novel • Spread compassion for North but infuriated South | 40 | |
| 573431545 | The Confederate States of America | • States that succeeded from Union b/c North didn't submit to South's demands | 41 | |
| 573431546 | Wade-Davis Bill | • Required that a majority of prewar voters in Confederate states swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin | 42 |
