Study Guide Questions And Answers – Flashcards
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Copperheads
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a type of poisonous snake that people repleted to southern sympathizers who limited their anti war activities to speeches
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Emancipation Proclamation
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plan that Lincoln had made all slaves living in areas still rebelling against the U.S. would be free
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Total War
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a war that is unrestricted in terms of weapons being used, the territory involved, or the object being pursued
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War of Attrition
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continue fighting until the south ran out of men, supplies and the will to fight
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Amnesty
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a full pardon to all southerners who would swear allegiance to the U.S. constitution and accepted federal laws ending slavery
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Black Codes
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laws that aimed to prevent African Americans from achieving social, political, and economic equality with southern Caucasians
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Carpetbaggers
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northern republics who moved south after civil war
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Sharecroppers
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under this system a farmer worked a parcel of land in return for share of the crop, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule
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Compromise of 1877
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a deal that republican and southern democrats made to defuse the protesting of the democrats
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Reconstruction acts
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laws that divided the former confederates states into military zones
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What killed more soldiers in the civil war than battle?
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disease and illness
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What is the Anaconda Plan?
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The naval blockade was nicknamed this because it was designed to slowly squeeze the live out of the south like a anaconda
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What were Northerners called who sympathized with the South called?
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copperhead
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What were the Jim Crow Laws?
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laws made to further deprive African Americans of their rights
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What is the Crittenden Compromise?
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crittendens plan called for the old Missouri compromise line to be draw west through the remaining territories and north of
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What was the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson?
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the court ruled that the separate but equal facilities did not violate the 14th amendment
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Who were the South relying on to help in the Civil War? ( 2 Countries in Europe)
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Britain and France
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Who led the South in the Battle of Shiloh?
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General Ulysses S grant
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What kind of ruler was George McClellon? (Reluctant or Brave)
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reluctant
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What year did Congress allow African Americans to fight in the War?
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1862
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What stated that any slave living in a rebelling state was free?
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emancipation proclamation
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What was the 54th Massachusetts infantry?
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most of the first African american soldiers recruited by the union served in the
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Where did the South surrender?
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appomattox
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What is Reconstruction?
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rebuilding the former confederate states and reuniting the nation
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Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
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john wikes booth
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What did the 13th Amendment do?
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abolished slavery
