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Question 1

Technology during the war

Answer 1

Railroads, advanced weaponry, canons, telegraphs (war was able to be more long distance and not had hand to hand combat)

Question 2

The Doctrine of Nullification

Answer 2

South ignoring/nullifying laws passed

Question 3

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 3

Lincoln declared enslaved people in the Confederacy to be free. South felt he had no power to do so/basically ignored it.

Question 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 4

An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed Black Americans

Question 5

Anaconda Plan

Answer 5

step 1: surround the South by the sea to cut off its trade.
step 2: divided the Confederacy into sections to prevent one region from helping another.
step 3: capture Richmond, Virginia (capital of the Confederacy) and destroy the Confederacy gov’t.

Question 6

What were the Reconstruction Amendments

Answer 6

13th, 14th, and 15th amendment

Question 7

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 7

it abolished slavery in the US

Question 8

What did the 14th amendment do?

Answer 8

a change to the constitution granting citizenship to anyone born in the US and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection to the law

Question 9

What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 9

a change to the constitution declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race, color, or because the person were once enslaved