MidTerm Part III – The Civil War and its Aftermath

Question 1

is asea fortinCharleston,South Carolina, notable for two battles of theAmerican Civil War.

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Fort Sumter

Question 2

confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1861 and 1865, consisting of eleven southern U.S. states.

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Confederacy

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(February 12, 1809– April 15, 1865) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the16th President of the United Statesfrom March 1861 untilhis assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through itsCivil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.In doing so, he preserved theUnion, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

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Abraham Lincoln

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declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

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Emancipation Proclamation

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thePresident of the Confederate States of America during theAmerican Civil War. He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrializedUnion.

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Jefferson Davis

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was an American general known for commanding theConfederateArmy of Northern Virginiain theAmerican Civil Warfrom 1862 until his surrender in 1865.

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Robert E. Lee

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was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town ofGettysburg,Pennsylvania, by UnionandConfederateforces during theAmerican Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war’sturning point.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Abraham Lincoln’s carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, was one of the greatest and most influential statements of national purpose.

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Gettysburg Address

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As Commanding General of the United States Army(1864–69), Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincolnto lead theUnion Armyto victory.

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Ulysses Grant

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fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of theAmerican Civil War. It was the final engagement ofConfederate ArmygeneralRobert E. Lee’sArmy of Northern Virginiabefore it surrendered to theUnion ArmyunderLt. Gen.Ulysses S. Grant.

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Appomattox Courthouse

Question 11

was an Americanstage actorwhoassassinated PresidentAbraham LincolnatFord’s Theatrein Washington, D.C.on April 14, 1865. He was also a Confederatesympathizer, vehement in his denunciation of Lincoln, and strongly opposed to theabolitionofslavery in the United States.

Answer 11

John Wilkes Booth

Question 12

refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions. On what terms would the Confederacy be allowed back into the Union? Who would establish the terms, Congress or the President?

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Reconstruction

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“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Amendment that:
Formally abolishing slavery in the United States,

was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.

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13th Amendment

Question 14

Amendment that granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

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14th Amendment

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Amendment that prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen theright to votebased on that citizen’s “race,color, or previous condition of servitude.

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15th Amendment