Ch 3 study guide US History

How did the Civil War end? Where was surrender? What was the date?

When General Lee of the south surrendered to General grant of the north officially ending the civil war. on April 9, 1865. It was at the Appomattox Court House.

fugitive slave law

a federal law that makes it easy to arrest runaway slaves in the north in a free state

Who/what are carpetbaggers

a nickname given to northerners by southerners, it meant people who moved down south trying to make money off there hard times

abolitionist

a person who does not believe in slavery & wants to end it.

underground railroad

a top secret way for slaves to escape the south to freedom

13th Amendment

abolished slavery

15th Amendment

all men have to right to vote if a citizen

Lincolns election

elected in 1860. He was a republican, & republicans were abolitionists. People feared he was an abolitionist even though he said he was not.

14th Amendment

granted citizenship to all men born in US, even African Americans

What happened to Lincoln?

he got assassinated

Sherman's March to Sea (who won & significance)

Sherman was a union general. The march to the sea was when the union troops marched across to Georgia, looting and destroying confederate towns, burning 12 cities.

Which state was the first to leave the union

South Carolina

What was the Compromise of 1877, & how did it end reconstruction?

Southerners will accept Hayes's election.. It removed northern troupes from the south & ended reconstruction.

Shiloh (who won & significance)

Union won after a surprise attack by the south .General Ulysses S Grant

He chose to revisit the place (two slave ports) where they were taken into slavery and shipped to the ____ ____

United States

Advantages of South?

-strong military -many trained officers

Advantages of North?

-strong navy -twice the population -many industries -more supplies controlled taxes & controlled all ports

(DW) He learned about his great grandfather who was born in ____. His name is Ruben Wilson

1841

what are the years of the civil war?

1861-1865

Its estimated that __ million Africans were forced through the passage ways of one of the forts.

2

David learned that he himself was __ generations from being born a slave

3

john browns raid on Harpers Ferry

A man & a few others made an attack on arsenal to steal guns, to give to slaves to kill their masters. People in the south feared their slaves would do this.

Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated

Andrew Johnson

David Wilson (AA) gets a ___test to see if there is any blood relation to the white David Wilson. Is there? __.

DNA. No.

12. He visits with ___ Blackwell, the eldest member of the church his grandfather started. She tells him about his great grandfather, Ruben, who started Ebenezer Church after Emancipation.

Daisy

Dred Scott decision

Dred Scott was a slave who moved to a free state with his slave owner. Dred decided to get a lawyer & sue for his freedom. The supreme court said no he cant get his freedom because African Americans are NOT citizens and cant sue.

What states made up the Confederate States of American/the Confederacy/the South (FLAG STAN MTV)

Florida, Louisinna, Alabamba, South Carolina, Tennesse, Arkansas, North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia.

The final leg of David's journey is to visit ___ the country of his family's origin.

Ghana

What do you think David Wilson meant when he told his friend Dan, "you are my reparations

He meant he doesn't need payment from the white man cause he has Dan.

When David Wilson (AA) asked David Wilson (W) "What if I came here and told you that you owed me reparations?", how did David Wilson (W) respond?

He said he would he feels what was done 150 years ago was responsible for him. He didn't know if that would be the solution.

How does David Wilson (AA) respond to the question posed by David Wilson (W) that had not African been brought over in slavery, then they may still be entrenched in povert

He said that America may be trenched in poverty. He also said he doesn't know if they loss of life was worth it

What would be reparations to David Wilson (AA)?

He thinks kids in schools should be taught more about African American history.

What did Lincoln want at the end of the civil war for the south

He wanted to move forward & let the southern states come back to the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

He was a republican. Some republicans are abolitionists, but he was not. He had no intention of ending slavery.

Robert E Lee

He was the confederate troops top general

Bull Run (who won & significance)

The south won and the major confederate general was Stonewall Jackson

Antietam (who won & significance)

The union inflicted so many causalities on the southern troops that general Robert e lee was forced to retreat. This was the bloodiest 1 day battle of the civil war, also, the south also lost its chance at having support from Britain.

Gettysburg (who won & significance)

The union won. It was the turning point because both sides suffered great losses and the south could not recover, and were now on the defensive. The union has 23000 deaths. The south had 28000 deaths.

How does David Wilson (W) feel about slavery and Christianity

There in conflict with each other

What union general later became president?

Ulysses S Grant became it.

The "Door of no return" was where the slaves left behind their _______.

ancestors

How, where, & when did the war start

at fort Sumter in 1861. The south fires on the north.

conscription

both sides drafted men into battle

What new technologies/strategies were used during the civil war

cone shaped bullets which were better for accuracy and higher casualties , trenches, barricades, use of attrition( the wearing down of one side b the other through exhaustion of soldiers and resources.

Both castles had _____ where Africans were held as cargo.

dungeons

What did the Wade-Davis bill call for?

each southern state has to abolish slavery, each white man had to take an oath, all confederate officials could not be a part of the government

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?

elected & starts the end of reconstruction

popular sovereignty

it Let the people who live out in south & north weather or not they want slavery

What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Who did it free? Who did it NOT free?

it is a degree freeing all slaves in the south. It was issued in, 1863.

secession

it means to leave. slave states wanted to leave the US and start their own countries.

Amnesty

means a pardon. Lincoln offered an amnesty to all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the U.S & accepted the union proclamation concerning slavery.

David Wilson (AA) says that "we can sit down and say we're working toward [an end to racism], and that there was a deep ____ that someone prayed that a day like this would come."

prayer

What did the Military Reconstruction act do?

put union soldiers in the south to monitor the reconstruction

What is Reconstruction?

rebuilding of the south after war

What does Daisy tell David that the white David Wilson owes him?

respect

What were the effects of the civil war?

slavery has ended, federal gov got more power over states, devastation of the south, the union stayed a country and led t0 industrial revolution

Vicksburg (who won & significance)

t happened in 1863. Grant took over this town, and cut off confederate supplies by taking control of the Mississippi River. the union won.

John Wilkes Booth

the guy who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Fort Sumter (who won & significance)

the south attacked the north, starting the civil war. Happened in 1861. occurred in south Carolina

Jefferson Davis

the south's new president

What is the north also formally known as?

the union/ united states

Why this war is considered the first "Modern war"

the war involved huge armies that consisted mostly of civil volunteers and lots of supplies needed

What did former confederate states have to do to rejoin the union?

they had to take an oath of loyalty in order to get amnesty.

How did African Americans make a living after the war?

they usually became tenant farmers and sharecroppers.

How were African Americans treated after the civil war in the south

they were terrorized

uncle toms cabin

this book was about a slave named Uncle Tom & his harsh slave owner. This book really upset the southerners. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

David Wilson (W), when asked whether he was bothered by the segregation, he answered that he honestly hadn't ____ ____ __ ___ ____

thought about it that much

He learned that his family was enslaved by a _____ family, The Wilson families in north Carolina and Virginia

tobacco

Ulysses S. Grant

top general for the union

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

was set up for freed slaves to find work and take care of their basic needs.

What types of reforms were made during Reconstruction by the Republicans?

we see that 40% of former slaves tart attending school. We see rebuilding of hospitals, damaged roads, and railways