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The strategy of destroying the enemy's resources. |
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| Charging a government official with a crime |
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| Poor farmers use a landowners field. In return the farmer gave the landowner a share of the crop. Landowners loaned sharecropers tools and seeds. |
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| Laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation declared that slaves in the confederacy were free. |
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| General Sherman was chosen by Ulysses Grant to lead the union army in Tennessee. Sherman used the total war strategy to destroy anything useful/helpful for the confederacy. |
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| The law said that slaves that had escaped to the North had to return to their original owners |
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| In 1859 he tried to start a rebellion against slavery by attacking the US army post at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was captured by soldiers and killed. Many Northerners saw him as a hero, but Southerners saw him as a violent man. |
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| Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Some wanted to help rebuild the South and others only wanted to make money. They were called carpetbaggers because they often carried suitcases made of carpet material. Southerners disliked carpetbaggers and did not want them there. |
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| Scalawag was a slang word for "old worthless horse". Some southerners supported the Republicans during reconstruction. Southerners who helped the government during reconstruction |
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(1852) A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree.
Although Stowe presents Uncle Tom as a virtuous man, the expression “Uncle Tom” is often used as a term of reproach for a subservient black person who tolerates discrimination.
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| The amendment was passed in 1865 and it Abolished Slavery |
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| The fourteenth amendment was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. |
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| The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
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| In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. |
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| What event started the Civil War, what choices did Lincoln have and what was his final decision |
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Growth of slavery
Resistance to slavery
State's rights
Tariffs
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| Why were tariffs good for the North |
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| Tariffs on imports were good for the North because it helped their manufacturing industry by making imported goods more expensive |
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| Where were most of the battles fought in the civil war and why? |
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| The majority of battles were fought in the South because the North felt they had the advantage - more people, more factories to make weapons. The North had a plan to block the seaports in the South so that the confederate soldiers good not get supplies |
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| Why was slavery important to the South |
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| Because the main industry in the South was farming and farmers relied on slaves to harvest crops |
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| Why were there so many casualties during the Civil War? |
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| Rifles could shoot farther and more acurately than ever before. Soldiers were killed in battle but they also died because of diseases. Diseases killed twice as many soldiers as the fighting did |
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| How did Congress help African Americans's during Reconstruction |
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| They passed a law to protect the rights of freedmen. They also created the Freedman Bureau to provide food, clothing, medical care and legal advice to poor blacks and whites. |
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