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CW/ Reconstruction Test
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History
7th Grade
06/06/2011

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Secede

 

 

 

 

Definition
To withdraw from an organization or alliance
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Draft
Definition
A system for requiring citizens to join their country's armed force
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civil rights
Definition

The rights that the Constitution entitles all people to as citizens

 

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Segregation
Definition
The social seperation of groups of people especially by race
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Scalawag
Definition
White southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War
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Carpetbagger
Definition
Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political power
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Freedmen
Definition
African Americans who had been set free from slavery after the civil war.
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Reconstruction
Definition
The period after the Civil War when the federal government ruled the southern states in order to rebulid them and allow them back into the Union
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Sectionalism
Definition
A group of people only interested in their beliefs and not the whole country's
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Why did the South decide to secede and form the Confederate States of America
Definition
They didn't agree with the government so the South seperated and made there own government
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What was the goal of the North
Definition
To have the country come bck together
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States that sided with the North 
Definition
Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri
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States that sided with the South
Definition
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
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Strengths and weaknesses of the Confederacy
Definition

  Strengths- Fighting a defensive war, military leadership

 

Weaknesses- Economy, transportation problems, money was invested                                                                       

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Strengths and weaknesses of the North
Definition

Strengths- Large population, 90% of manufacturing in North, more farms, 21,000 miles of railroads, more bank and wealth

 

Weaknesses- Military leadership

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CSA: President, capital, and commanding general
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Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Virginia, Robert E. Lee
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USA: President, capital, and last commanding general
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Abraham Lincoln, Washington D.C ,Ulysses S. Grant
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Southern strategies
Definition
Fighting a defensive war, hold out and tire out the North, counted on European money and supplies
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Northern strategies
Definition
Blockade southern ports, seize Mississippi River- cut Confederacy into 2, seize Richmond and capture Confederate headquarters
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Technology used
Definition
Rifles, muskets, cannons, artillery
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African American soldiers during Massachussets 54th Regiment
Definition
Under command of Colonel Robert Shaw, 1,000 African American soldiers, paid less than white soldiers, sent to South Carolina to take part of the attack on Fort Wagner 
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition

What was it: declared slaves in all Confederate states to be free

 

Who did it effect: slaves and the Confederacy

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Gettysburg
Definition
Union and Confederate troops met on July 1st, 1863 west of Gettysburg for peace
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Vicksburg
Definition
General Grant battled his way to Vicksburg with an army
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Total War and Shermans March to Atlanta
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Destruction of the War
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Freedmens Bureau
Definition
`an organization established by Congress to assist former slaves
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Sharecropping
Definition
Sharing the crop
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
secret society found in 1866, used fear brutality, and murder to overthrow local reformed minded governments
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Black Codes
Definition
To spell out the rights of freedmen, to help planters find workers, and to keep freedmen at the lowest part of society
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
Hayes becomes president and promises to: appoint a Southern to his Cabinet, remove all remaining federal troops from the south
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Plessey vs Ferguson 
Definition
Plessey was arrested for sitting in a railroad car reserved by Louisiana law for whites
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Laws passed in the South that legally required blacks to be seperated from whites
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