Transcript Slide 1 - gst boces

What term refers to
the plan for
rebuilding the South
after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
What was the original reason
that Lincoln joined the war?
Bring the Union back together
How do we remember the
North’s strategy to win the war?
Chain – Saw - Seize
Whose plan for Reconstruction said
state governments must be
disbanded, states must write new
constitutions, states had to ratify
the 14th Amendment and allow
African Americans to vote?
Radical Republicans
Who was the first president to be
impeached?
Andrew Johnson
What amendment freed the slaves?
13th Amendment
What was the name given to laws
designed to limit the rights of
blacks? The laws were passed
immediately after the war.
Black codes
What was the political party of
the conservative group in the
South that didn’t want the South
to change from how it was
before the war?
Democrats
Voters had to pay a fee in order to
vote.
Poll tax
Name 3 of the 4 S’s that were
causes of the Civil War.
Sectionalism, states’ rights, slavery,
secession
What was the name given to the
government organization designed
to help former slaves?
Freedman’s Bureau
What was the capital of the South
for most of the war?
Richmond, Virginia
What did the chain stand for in the
Northern strategy to win the war?
Blockade the South
What group’s goal was to break the
power of rich southern planters?
Radical Republicans
What was another name for the
North’s blockade? In other words,
it was called the _____ Plan.
Anaconda
What economic problem did both
the North and South have to deal
with?
Inflation
What was it called when former
slaves worked land and in return
had to pay off a part of their crop
and the cost of rent / seed in
return? Most never made enough
to pay off their debts.
sharecropping
People could vote if they could
read and explain a section of the
Constitution.
Literacy test
Group who used violence to harass
freedmen.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What happened virtually every time
Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill
passed by Congress?
Congress overrode the veto
What was the South’s strategy for
winning the war?
Fight a defensive war until the
North got tired of fighting
What did the saw stand for in the
Union plan of victory?
Capture the Mississippi River,
splitting the Confederacy in 2
What was the name given to
southern Republicans who
cooperated with Reconstruction?
Scalawags
What freed the slaves in area
under Confederate control?
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the name given to the
first battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run
Where did General Lee surrender?
Appomattox Courthouse
Who proposed the 10% Plan of
Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
What battle did U.S. Grant win to
gain the Mississippi River for the
North?
Vicksburg
What amendment gave African
Americans the right to vote?
15th Amendment
How did the Emancipation
Proclamation change the focus of
the war?
Added freeing slaves to the goals
of the war
Why was the South fighting the
war?
To save the “Southern way of life”
which included slavery
Name given to former slaves.
freedmen
What was it called when the north
destroyed everything in its path?
Total war
What did the Seize stand for in the
Union plan of victory?
Capture Richmond
What plan of reconstruction said
that a person could not participate
in government if they volunteered
for the Confederate army?
Wade –Davis Bill
What famous African American unit
fought courageously at Fort
Wagner, South Carolina?
54th Massachusetts
What term means the legal
separation of the races?
segregation
A person could vote if their father or
grandfather had voted.
Grandfather clause
What was the job of African
American soldiers at the beginning
of the war?
Laborers only – they were not
allowed to fight
Whose plan of reconstruction said
that a majority of people had to
pledge loyalty to the United States
and states had to ratify the 13th
Amendment?
Andrew Johnson
Whose soldiers were called the
Rebs?
South
What term refers to the idea that
some states believed their interests
were more important than the
issues of the nation as a whole?
States’ rights
Was Andrew Johnson removed
from office when he was
impeached?
No
What battle was known as the
turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles
Sumner belonged to which political
group.
Radical Republicans
Before the Civil War, which section
of the country was most for states’
rights?
South
In Lincoln’s plan of slavery, what
did the southern governments need
to get rid of?
slavery
What was the name of the most
famous iron-clad battle?
Monitor vs. Merrimack
Northerners who came to the South
during Reconstruction for their own
personal benefit?
carpetbaggers
What northern general used total
warfare in his “march to the sea”?
General William T. Sherman
What amendment made former
slaves citizens?
14th Amendment
What was the goal of total war?
Destroy the South’s will to fight
What laws kept African Americans
from gaining political and economic
power immediately after the war
was over?
Black codes
How many slaves were freed
immediately by the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Zero – Confederate states didn’t
consider Lincoln their president and
didn’t listen to him so zero
Who was the most famous
Confederate General?
Robert E. Lee
Where did the first shooting of the
war happen?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Laws which segregated blacks and
whites.
Jim Crow Laws
Supreme Court case which made
segregation legal if facilities were
equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
In what year was the Emancipation
Proclamation officially enacted?
January 1, 1863
Which army had the advantage of
fighting mostly on their homeland?
South
Who assassinated Abraham
Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Who won the battle of Gettysburg?
North
Whose army fought most of the war
in enemy territory?
North
What term means a strong sense
of loyalty to a state or nation?
sectionalism
Who made the Gettysburg
Address?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the
Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the most successful
Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
Sharecropping was very similar to
what?
slavery
In what year was the Gettysburg
Address made?
November 19, 1863
Which army was known as the
Federal Army or Billy Yanks?
North
Which side had more industry
before the Civil War?
North
Which side had more slavery
before the Civil War?
South
What said the Civil War was a test
of whether a democratic
government could survive?
Gettysburg Address
In what year was Abraham Lincoln
assassinated?
1865
Which side had a larger population
before the Civil War began?
North
Who was the President of the
United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was elected president in
1864?
Abraham Lincoln
Where was Abraham Lincoln
assassinated?
Ford’s Theater
General Lee surrendered soon
after this city was destroyed?
Richmond, Virginia
Who was afraid of competition from
freedmen?
Poor in the South and factory
workers in the North
What year did the Battle of
Gettysburg take place in?
July, 1863
Which army had a better navy
when the war began?
North
Who made the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the capital of the North?
Washington D.C.
In 1866 Congress passed the Civil
Rights Act granting citizenship to
African Americans. What
amendment did this create?
14th Amendment