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~FINAL~: Causes of the Civil War, Civil War, Reconstruction, West Flashcards

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Who was the Confederate President during the Civil War

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Jefferson Davis

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union General who won the Battle of Vicksburg

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Robert E. Lee

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Confederate General who lost at the Battle of Gettysburg, he also invaded to north twice for Gettysburg and Antietam

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William Clarke Quantrill

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Confederate Bushwhacker who attacked Lawrence, Kansas

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William T. Sherman

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Union General who was known for “total war” and the siege of Georgia, Atlanta

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How did the Civil War affect the economies of both sides?

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The North and South both suffered economically during the war. The South faced more problems than the North and inflation was on of the problems that they experienced

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Gettysburg (how did it start, what were the results)

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This battle took place in the North in 1863 and started with the invasion from Robert E. Lee and was a devastating loss for the Confederacy. It is considered to be the main turning point in the Civil War

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Antietam (how did it start, what were the results)

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When the Union found Lee’s battle plans, they knew he was headed North into Maryland. The Union pursued him and that is how this battle started

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Vicksburg

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This battle helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River

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The burning of Lawrence

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The Bushwackers went to Lawrence because that was where the Jayhawkers were and they started burning Lawrence

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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This document was aimed at ending slavery in the Confederate states (only in the rebelling states because they are trying to hurt to hurt Confederacy)

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Jayhawkers

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Anti-slavery Kansans that made raids into Missouri

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Bushwhackers

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Pro-slavery Missourians that made raids on anti-slavery settlements

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Exodusters

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African Americans who came to Kansas from the Deep South to get away from Reconstruction

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John Wilkes Booth

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An actor who also assassinated Abraham Lincoln

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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19th President of the United States who ended Reconstruction when he went into office

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Andrew Johnson

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Vice President of the United States who took over after Lincoln’s assassination. First president to be impeached.

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Amnesty

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Forgiveness for any crimes committed; Government pardon for wrongdoings

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Black codes

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Laws in the South that were meant to control freedmen

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Segregation

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A way of separating the blacks from the whites

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Impeach

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The process of bringing formal charges against a public official

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Abolished all slavery in the United States

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The Fourteenth Amendment

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Protected citizenship of African Americans and it established that all citizens are equally protected under the laws of the U.S.

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The Fifteenth Amendment

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Gave voting rights to African American males

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Grandfather clause
It kept blacks from voting because you could only vote if your Grandfather or father had voted before
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Jim Crow legislation
It required that all African Americans and whites were to be separated in almost every public place. They had to separate facilities because they believed that the African Americans were far from equal
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Plessy v. Ferguson
The Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as African Americans had access to public places equal to those of whites
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Radical Reconstruction
A plan that divided the South into 5 military districts, worked to give the rights to freedmen, and took away power from former Confederates
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Sharecropping
A system in the South that seems to replace slavery by having a person rent land from a landowner in exchange for a percentage of the value of the crop that person farms
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Reservation
An area of land set aside for Native Americans
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Transcontinental Railroad
It’s a rail line that's connected to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
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John Brown
Kansas abolitionist who massacred a pro-slave settlement in Kansas. He was in the Raid on Harper’s Ferry and was in the Pottawatomie Creek
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James Lane
Anti-slavery Kansan who led 400 person “Army of the North” to move to Kansas. He was also the leader of the Jayhawkers and was a senator
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Abraham Lincoln
Union President in 1861 but died 1865
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Bleeding Kansas
A nickname given to Kansas due to the violence between proslavery and antislavery forces over the issue of slavery
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Compromise of 1850
An agreement made between the north and the south that stated that California would be admitted as a free state. The Fugitive Slave Act was put into action. Popular sovereignty would be used to determine slavery in New Mexico and Utah territories. Slavery banned in Washington D.C.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Slaves are determined property, not citizens. Unconstitutional to prohibit slavery
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the issue of slavery in the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory
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Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown wanted to arm slaves and lead them in an attack against their owners. The raid failed as Brown was caught and convicted of treason
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Border Ruffian
Missourians who illegally crossed into Kansas and voted in Kansas Elections
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Fort Sumter
the shots of the first Civil War were fired in Charleston, South Carolina
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Who were the scalawags?
White Southerners who supported the Union (against secession or pro-Republican)
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Who were the carpetbaggers?
Whites from the North who traveled South after the War
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Which battle helped issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietam
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What is a subsidy?
a government provided financial aid or land grant
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What is a cattle drive?
movement of herds of cattle on trails over great distances
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What was the transcontinental railroad?
rail line that connected the atlantic and pacific coasts
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Definition of a boomtown
a town that quickly grows up around a mining center
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What is a cowtown?
intersection of railroad and cattle town
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How did the expansion of railroads help to create a successful cattle industry?
cattle were sent to markets and people would pay much more
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Why did settlers want to move to kansas?
land (money?)
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How did the government encourage railroads to expand to the west?
by providing land grants (subsidies) and providing more than 130 million acres of land to railroad companies
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What are three things that contributed to the end of cattle drives?
texas fever barbed wire fences railroad being built so they didn't need them anymore
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Definition of homestead
a house on land that includes farm and land
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Definition of sodbusters
farmers who developed new farming methods and tools
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Which president authorized the building of the transcontinental railroad in 1862?
Abraham Lincoln
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How did mining and railroads draw people to the west?
Mining attracted people from chance to “strike it rich”. Railroads made the movement to the West easier and allowed supplies to be moved back and forth with greater ease.
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How did the expansion of the railroad change the united states?
The population in the West grew, which allowed states to develop and the country to expand. the landscape changed, resources were gained, time zones were created, etc
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What was the homestead act?
It gave up to 160 acres of land to any head of a family who paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for five years
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What was the oklahoma land rush?
Oklahoma had free land and who ever got their first, got land… like a competition
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What was national grange?
first large farmers organization
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Who was Fred Harvey?
created first chain of restaurants called harvey houses along the rail line
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What was farm cooperative?
a way for farmers to pool their money together to buy large amounts of supplies for less money
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Who were the sooners?
someone who snuck into the oklahoma land rush early and claimed land before it started
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What were three difficulties faced by Kansan farmers?
the harsh weather conditions they had, economic depression, and not enough resources
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How did cattle industry begin?
new railroads allowd farmers to ship beef east
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True or false Clearing trees was not a difficulty faced by farmers
true
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Who was know as a war hero who then later became President?
Ulysses S. Grant

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