Civil War/Reconstruction Flashcards
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help freed slaves?
They helped by providing education, food, housing, medical aid, and help to setup schools and universities.
How many slaves were freed on January 1, 1863 because the Emancipation Proclamation?
0
When the South surrendered, who was allowed to keep their pistols?
The officers
In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court stated that slaves were what?
property
In the election of 1876 who won the popular vote, but lost the election?
Samuel J. Tilden
On April 9,1865, which General surrendered at Appomattox Court?
Robert E. Lee
On Sherman’s March to the Sea, what city was burned down?
Atlanta
What did the Ku Klux Klan use to stop blacks from voting?
Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses.
What is unique about President Andrew Johnson?
He was the first President to be impeached.
What made up Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?
10% Plan
- When 10% of the voting population had taken an oath of loyalty to the union
- The state could establish a government
- Adopt a new state constitution banning slavery.
What nickname was given to Kansas over the violent battles about slavery?
Bleeding Kansas
What was one thing that all the Reconstruction plans have in common?
abolish slavery
What political party was created during this era to fight slavery?
Republican Party
What was the name of the Confederacy Plan to win the Civil War?
Cotton of Diplomacy (Defensive War)
What was the name of the Union Plan to win the Civil War?
The Anaconda Plan
What was the topic of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?”
the treatment of slaves
What were the North’s motives at the beginning of the war?
preserve the union
What ways were created to stop blacks from voting in the south?
Poll taxes, Literacy tests, grandfather clause
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired at?
Fort Sumter
What political group wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was asked to lead the Union army but declined?
Robert E. Lee
Who won the civil war?
The Union/North
Why was John Brown hung?
Lead groups to take over arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Plans to lead slaves in revolt against owners
Why was President Johnson impeached?
He violated the Office of Tenure Act. (He fired members of Cabinet without the consent of the Senate).
What is inflation?
the price of products rises while the value of money falls.
What is the first line of the Gettysburg Address?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on the continent a new nation…
13th Amendment
abolished slavery
14th Amendment
gave citizenship rights to those born in the United States.
15th Amendment
gives voting rights to all men, including African Americans
Jim Crow Laws
segregation (separate but equal)
Black Codes
New laws in the south to violate AA’s 14th Amendment rights.
sharecroppers
tenant farmers (renters) another form of slavery
Scalawags
Southerners who supported the government during secession. (were seen as traitors to the south).
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who worked in the South, trying to take advantage and make a profit from Reconstruction.
