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