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Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapters 11 and 12
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History
11th Grade
01/11/2009

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During Reconstruction, churches became the principal institutions that African Americans fully controlled. True or False?
Definition
True
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Democrats called those white Southerners who joined the Republican Party scalawags.
True or False?
Definition
False
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Robert G. Fitzgerald was the first African American to win election as a U.S senator.
True or False?
Definition
False
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Very few former slaves were able to take part in sharecropping because they could never raise enough cash to rent land from planter.
True or False?
Definition
False
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Carpetbaggers were those who left their homes after the war and moved to the South, where they wre often scorned as dishonest business people.
True or False?
Definition
True
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In the system known as tenant farming, landowners didvided their land and gave each worker a few acres plus seed and tools. In return, the worker gave the landowner a portion of the harvested crop.
True or False?
Definition
False
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Union commander who seized New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Natchez
Definition
David G. Farragut
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Southern sympathizer and actor who assassinated Presiden Lincoln
Definition
John Wilkes Booth
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Hero at Vicksburg who became commander of all Union armies in 1864
Definition
Ulysses S. Grant
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General responsible for the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run
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Stonewall Jackson
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Union commander who burned a path of destruction through Georgia
Definition
William Tecumseh Sherman
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Confederate commander who opposed secession but sided with his beloved state of Virginia
Definition
Robert E. Lee
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Union general who was eventually fired by Lincoln for having the "slows"
Definition
George McClellan
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President of the Confederacy
Definition
Jefferson Davis
Term
Republican who won the presidency of 1860
Definition
Abraham Lincoln
Term
Union nurse who cared for the sick and wounded on the front lines
Definition
Clara Barton
Term
Union general who promised freed slaves who followed his army "40 acres and a mule"
Definition
William T. Sherman
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The first African-American U.S. senator
Definition
Hiram Revels
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President who vetoed important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation
Definition
Andrew Johnson
Term
Democratic candidate for president in 1876 who won the popular vote but lost the election
Definition
Samuel J. Tilden
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President who favored the lenient Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction
Definition
Abraham Lincoln
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Secretary of war whose firing led to Andrew Johnson's impeachment
Definition
Edwin Stanton
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House representatives who was the leader of the Radical Republicans
Definition
Thaddeus Stevens
Term
President whose administration was plagued with scandal
Definition
Ulysses S. Grant
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Republican who became president in 1876 through a deal between Party leaders
Definition
Rutherford B. Hayes
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New York Tribune editor who ran against Grant in the 1872 presidential election
Definition
Horace Greeley
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Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also _____.
Definition
The civilian population of the South
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During the war, _____ did not contribute to the food shortage in the South
Definition
Bad weather causing poor crops
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____ was not part of the Union's three-part plan to conquer the South
Definition
Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union
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The Battle of Gettysburg was not _____.
Definition
The battle that cut the Confederacy in two
Term
____ helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864
Definition
Union victories in the South
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One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it _____.
Definition
Gave a moral purpose to the war
Term
While serving in the Union army, African Americans faced all of the following except _____.
Definition
Excessively high income taxes
Term
Clara Barton worked as a ______ in the Civil War
Definition
Nurse on the battlefield
Term
Lincoln suspended _____ to deal with dissent in the Union states
Definition
The writ of habeas corpus
Term
Because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, Grant focused on capturing ______.
Definition
Vicksburg
Term
This led to economic depression and disputes over currency policies.
Definition
Panic of 1873
Term
This group strongly supported Reconstruction
Definition
Radical Republicans
Term
As the Democratic candidate for president in the 1876 election, this man won the popular vote but failed to gain the presidency
Definition
Samuel J. Tilden
Term
Democrats used this term to describe their return to power in the South
Definition
Redemption
Term
This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office
Definition
Amnesty Act
Term
This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office
Definition
Amnesty Act
Term
This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office
Definition
Amnesty Act
Term
The power of this group was severly weakened by its ties to political corruption, severe economic problems, and decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in the 1870's
Definition
Radical Republicans
Term
Democrats and Republicans in Congress agreed to this, which decided the outcome of a presidential election and effectively ended Reconstruction in the South
Definition
Compromise of 1877
Term
Although this man was considered honest, many of the people he appointed to office were dishonest and corrupt
Definition
Ulysses S. Grant
Term
This is what Southern Democrats managed to achieve after the 1876 election. It allowed them to restrict African-American rights, cut taxes, and wipe out social programs
Definition
Home Rule
Term
During Reconstruction, this white supremacist group committed acts of violence against African Americans to keep them from participating in politics and acheiving economic progress
Definition
Ku Klux Klan
Term
In 1866, Congress overrides the presidential vetoes and adopts the _____, providing a constitutional basis for the Civil Righs Act and guaranteeing citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
Definition
Fourteenth Amendment
Term
In 1867, the president's refusal to cooperate with Congress's plans for _____ leads Congress to impeach him. At the end of his eleven-day trial, he is found not guilty.
Definition
Reconstruction
Term
In 1866, Congress passes the _____, giving African Americans citizenship and forbidding states from passing discriminatory lawas known as ______.
Definition
Black Codes; Civil Rights Act
Term
In 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln brings _______ to the presidency. He announces his plan for _____, calling for states to be readmitted to the Union once they have declared secession illegal, sworn allegiance to the Union, repudiated Confederate debts and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment
Definition
Reconstruction; Andrew Johnson
Term
In 1867, Congress passes the _____, abolishing the governments formed in the former Confederate states and dividing those states into five military districts. this act is promptly vetoed by _____.
Definition
Andrew Johnson; Reconstruction Act
Term
In 1868, ______ is elected president. After the election, the ______ in Congress, fearing that Southern whites might try to place limits on African-American voting rights, introduce the _____, which states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or having been enslaved.
Definition
Ulysses S. Grant; Radical Republicans; Fifteenth Amendment
Term
In 1866, the president betoes the Freedmen's Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act leading moderate Republicans to join forces with the _______.
Definition
Radical Republicans
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In 1865, Congress votes to expand the _____, which assists former slaves by providing clothing and food
Definition
Freedmen's Bureau
Term
Why was David Farragut's victory in April 1862 so important?
Definition
It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River
Term
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Definition
Military Leadership
Term
Which of the following abolished slavery in the North?
Definition
The Emancipation Proclamation
Term
What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Definition
To free slaves in Union slave states
Term
What was Clara Barton's role in the Civil War?
Definition
Nurse on the battlefield
Term
Which of the following was not an important advantage of ironclad ships?
Definition
They could travel much faster than other ships
Term
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
Definition
To restore the Union
Term
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?
Definition
It made the South give up the idea of invading the North
Term
What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter?
Definition
He did not want to anger Republicans and slave states still in the Union
Term
Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?
Definition
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here."
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