Civil War And Recreation

Question 1

How did the north when the war?

Answer 1

Their economic strategy was the anaconda plan.

Because the south could not transport materials or supplies for the war.

Question 2

What is the anaconda plan?

Answer 2

It was the unions plan to “choke off” the south from its money source in Europe by blocking southern ports with military ships.

Question 3

What was the Union blockade?

Answer 3

It was to keep the south from selling cotton and raise money for the war by importing war materials and supplies from Europe.

Question 4

What are blockade runners?

Answer 4

Long skinny ships used to block the south from exporting and importing goods.

Question 5

What was the reconstruction?

Answer 5

Rebuilding south or how old the southern states the readmitted to the union or Georgians behaving badly.

Question 6

What was the Lincoln presidential plan?

Answer 6

1. Wanted a quick generous plan
2. Leaders wanted to be pardoned if they took an oath of allegiance to the US
3. Required only ten percent to sign the loyalty oath
4. US congress had to approve the 13th amendment
5. Secession declared Noel and void
6. All war debts canceled

Question 7

How does the northerners’ react to Lincoln’s plan?

Answer 7

They thought Lincoln’s plan was too easy on the south, but Lincoln was ready to fight over his idea for reconstruction.

Question 8

What’s the deal with Andrew Johnson of TN?

Answer 8

• he was the successor to Lincoln, who is playing with similar to Lincolns plan but
• Southern states legislators also had to nullify the laws of succession and write a new constitution
• Johnson’s plan included Lincoln’s plan to approve the 13th amendment (outlaw slavery)

Question 9

Occupational troops

Answer 9

The US troops remaining in the south for military control in an area in which civil government must comply.

Question 10

13th, 14th, and 15th amendment

Answer 10

13th was to eliminate slavery, 14th was to make slaves born in the US and lived (long enough) in the US to be a citizen, and the 15th amendment was to guarantee voting rights to ALL men but not women. (southerners did not agree)

Question 11

Freedmen’s bureau

Answer 11

Another congressional reconstruction idea to build schools for African-Americans, create contracts for African-Americans so they can be payed for work, provide food and clothing, and offer support for all Southerners.

Question 12

The new Georgia constitution

Answer 12

1. Declared it was no longer part of the CSA
2. GGA past black codes that restricted the rights of freed men much like the slave codes of antebellum time
3. Georgia wanted to reenter the union but the US Congress said no because of George’s black codes
4. So congress invalidated this states governments of the south

Question 13

Who are the carpetbaggers?

Answer 13

People who have moved from the north to the south. (Carpet bags where the luggage bags)

Question 14

Who are the scalawags?

Answer 14

A white southerner who supported the Georgia republicans.

Question 15

Share cropping?

Answer 15

Farmers who shared everything. (and owned nothing) they planted crops on landowner’s land and paid the land owner a share or part of profit.

Question 16

Tenant farming?

Answer 16

Similar to sharecropping but they had their own supplies.

Question 17

Georgia’s changing capitals?

Answer 17

Savannah
Augusta
Louisville
Milledgevill
Atlanta