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Unit 5--Part 2
APUSH
Question | Answer |
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Fort Sumter | Confederate attack on this started the Civil War in 1861 |
Richmond Bread Riot | carried out by southern females for food as Confederate supplies ran low in the Civil War |
Vicksburg | Union victory that gave it control of the Mississippi River and thus divided the Confederacy in half |
Gettysburg | Union victory in Pennsylvania that crippled the South's offensive capabilities |
"March to the Sea" | Union General William Sherman's campaign that sought to break southern morale; destroyed everything in its path from Chattanooga to Savannah (including Atlanta) |
Emancipation Proclamation (1862-63) | Lincoln’s declaration of 1862 that freed all slaves in those states that were in rebellion (but not those in the border states) |
Massachusetts 54th Regiment | example of how African-Americans flocked to Union Army after the Emancipation Proclamation |
13th Amendment | permanently abolished slavery |
New York City Draft Riot 1863 | carried out by poor, mostly Irish-Americans; attacked blacks and rich whites in response to Conscription Act of 1863; 117 killed |
Appomattox | place in Virginia where Robert E. Lee (South) officially surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (North) |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union general whose strategy of attrition won the war |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general whose tactical abilities won numerous battles for South early in the war |
Andrew Johnson | took over presidency upon Lincoln's assassination |
14th Amendment | among other things, it obligated states to respect rights of citizens by providing “equal protection of the laws” and “due process” |
15th Amendment | Prohibited any state from denying a citizen’s right to vote based upon “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” |
Hiram Revels | 1st black senator; from Mississippi |
scalawags | term used for southern Republicans |
carpetbaggers | term used for northern Republicans who came south during Reconstruction |
Compromise of 1877 | officially ended Reconstruction; resulted in removal of Union troops from South |
sharecropping | southern economic system in which landlord (white) provided seed and tools while poor farmer (black) gave landlord 50% of harvest (typically) as rent |
crop lien | paying for supplies with part of what you grow |
Ku Klux Klan | main group that implemented violence to prevent blacks from voting |
Mississippi Plan | southern plan to fight Reconstruction by intimidating blacks and white Republicans |
Freedmen's Bureau | Welfare agency for those made destitute in war (mainly freed slaves and homeless whites); increased African-American literacy |
Black Codes | various laws in South after Civil War that denied blacks their civil rights |