Unit 4

Question 1

Anaconda Plan

Answer 1

Military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The three parts of the plan were to
1. Divide the south down the Mississippi
2. Blockade the East Coast
3. Capture the capital of Richmond

Question 2

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 2

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

Question 3

54th Massachusetts

Answer 3

Volunteer Union regiment organized in the American Civil War

Question 4

War of Attrition

Answer 4

Military strategy in which one side tries to cause the other to lose so many soldiers and to have so much military equipment destroyed that the enemy forces are worn down until they collapse.

Question 5

Telegraph

Answer 5

The first instant communication device developed by Samuel Morse. Aided in warfare communication.

Question 6

Railroad

Question 7

Steamboats

Question 8

Gettysburg

Question 9

Ku Klux Klan

Question 10

Jim Crow Laws

Question 11

Black Codes

Question 12

Disenfranchisement

Answer 12

the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote

Question 13

Lost Cause

Answer 13

Myth about the life of the Antebellum south

Question 14

13th Amendment

Answer 14

Abolished Slavery

Question 15

14th Amendment

Answer 15

Defined citizenship, said laws apply to everyone equally, and protected certain rights

Question 16

15th Amendment

Answer 16

Gave men the right to vote regardless of race

Question 17

Freedmen’s bereau

Question 18

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Question 19

1867: Reconstruction Act

Question 20

1871: Ku Klux Klan Act

Question 21

Election of 1876

Question 22

Compromise of 1877