Final Study Guide Flashcards
Battles: advantages and disadvantages the union and confederacy had. Antietam, emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address and the battle of Gettysburg, role of blacks in the war, battle of Appomattox.
The union had more railroad lining and better communication across America, which meant better and more supplies. They were also more industrial so they were never dangerously low on resources like the south. The south had conviction and knowledge of the land but was out gunned, numbered, and beaten.the emancipation proclamation freed all slaves behind enemy lines, the Gettysburg battle was the turning point in the war, so famous Lincoln gave a famous speech. Blacks had higher casualties per capita in the war and basically got the shaft the entire time.
Major battles: Lexington and concord, bunker hill, Saratoga, Yorktown, principles of the DOI, George Washington, loyalists and radicals, hessians.
Lexington and concord were the first major battles of the revolutionary war fought on US soil. Yorktown was the final battle where the US clinched victory. Hessians were paid soldiers the British used because of their lack of men. The DOI stated all people have unalienable rights that the crown wasn’t granting them so they declared themselves a new country.
Civil war reconstruction: presidential and congressional reconstruction. Share cropping, black codes, KKK, new amendments, Andrew Johnson.
President Lincoln expected the country’s problems to eventually work themselves out but he got shot so Johnson took his place. He was a southerner who gave all pardons to confederate soldiers and gave southern aristocrats their ,and back causing racial discrimination in the south again. KKK was formed to stop exercising their rights they gained in the 13,14,15 amendments. Sharecropping was working a southern aristocrats land for a share in the crops. Black codes were codes limiting black freedom.
Revolutionary war causes: French and Indian war, boycotts, smuggling, stamp act, Townsend acts, quartering act, proclamation of 1763
The French and Indian ware caused British debt protecting the colonies and they were taxes so they boycotted British goods. The stamp act put tax on all paper in the colonies. And the tea party was after and act was passed putting a tax on tea,bit was these taxes that caused widespread smuggling. Quartering act was an act that forced colonists to house British troops. Proclamation of 1763 was a line at the Appalachians that didn’t allow the colonies to expand past that for their protection against the Indians.
Civil war causes: economic differences between the confederacy and the union. Missouri compromise where deciding whether a slave of free state. Compromise of 1850 with California in the same boat. Kansas Nebraska act involving popular sovereignty. The election of Lincoln causing the south to secede. The Dred Scott case where a slave tried to sue for freedom but was unsuccessful.
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