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History Test Review 4
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10th Grade
11/05/2009

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Fort Sumter
Definition
Battle of Fort Sumter happened during the American Civil War, was used during the Spanish-American War
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Anaconda Plan
Definition
Plan that wanted to divide the South in half
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Shiloh
Definition
showed Confederates were weak in the West and Confederate troops surprised Union Soldiers
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Monitor
Definition
A ship built by the North covered by steel plates which ended wooden ships
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Antietam
Definition
First major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil
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Habeas Corpus
Definition
a legal action that a person can not be convicted of the same crime twice
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Copperhead
Definition
Northern Peace Democrats who opposed the American Civil War, wanted an immediate peace settlement
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Conscription
Definition
a general term for involuntary labor demanded by an established authority. Example: requiring citizens into military
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Income Tax
Definition
was first brought up during the American Civil War, tax on income of people and businesses
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Gettysburg
Definition
a major battle in the American Civil War the took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and showed that the North would win the war.
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Appomattox Court House
Definition
the site of where General Robert E. Lee signed the document of surrender to Ulysses S. Grant
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Thirteenth Amendent
Definition
officially abolished slavery.
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Red Cross
Definition
protects life and health during the wars and natural disasters, was founded in 1863
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Assasination
Definition
the targetted killing of a public figure
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Reconstruction
Definition
period after the American Civil War when everything was rebuilt including the Southern industry and the Union. This was also the period when the North was trying to change the Southern way of life. Between 1865-1877
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Wade-Davis Bill
Definition
a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South from Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Davis of Maryland.
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Black Codes
Definition
laws passed on the state and local level in the U.S. to limit the civil rights and the civil liberties of African-Americans
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Impeachment
Definition
the first two steps in removal of a government official from office
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Fourteenth Amendment
Definition
made important decisions about civil rights, immigration, and personal liberties
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Fifteenth Amendment
Definition
Guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race or color
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Scalawag
Definition
a name for Southern who supported Reconstruction throughout the American Civil War
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Carpetbagger
Definition
Northerners who moved to the South after the American Civil War
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Sharecropping
Definition
Owner gives land, seed, tools for part of crops.
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Tenant Farming
Definition
Rent land from owner; buy own tools
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
a group that protected the rights of and further the interests of white americans by violence and intimidation
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Democratic Redemption
Definition
when white southerners had the reversion of the South to conservative the party's rule after Reconstruction
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
It settled the disputed 1876 U.S Presidential election
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Southern Home Rule
Definition
White southerners took back political office after union left the South.
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