Guided reading activity study guide 3-1, 3-2, & 3-3
What did the Wade-David Bill require before a state could hold a constitutional convention?
African-American equality and voting rights.
Winfield Scott's __________ ____ would separate the South and slowly strangle it by cutting off resources to its armies .
Anaconda Plam
Southern leaders believed their strategy of waging a defensive war of _________ would force the Union to spend its resources until it grew tired and agreed to negotiate.
Attrition
Why were so many African-Americans in the "new south" trapped in poverty?
Because the civil war had ended slavery by the reconstruction.
Why was Vicksburg, Mississippi, an important location for the confederacy?
Because the north could cut the south into two.
The Confederacy's financial situation was poor because it could not raise money by selling _________ or by taxing _______.
Bounds Trade
Who are the carpetbaggers and Scalawags and how did they participate in the reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers arrived with their belongings in suitcases made out of carpet fabric. Scalawags are weak, underfed, worthless animals.
In 1860 the north had almost 90 percent of the nation's ________ and double the miles of __________ ________ making it easier to arm, move, and supply its troops.
Factories Railroad Track
What services did the Freedmen's Bureau provide?
Feeding and clothing war refugees.
Jefferson Davis
Former Mississippi senator.
How did Lincoln use the Emancipation Proclamation to change the nature of the war?
He freed enslaved people in states in rebellion.
How did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Lincoln?
He shot him on the back of his head.
Why was Sherman's march to the sea so destructive?
His troops set fires to destroy railroads, warehouses, mills, and factories.
What we're Grant's generous terms of surrender and how were they important steps toward reconciliation?
It guaranteed that the U.S. would not prosecute Confederate soldiers for treason.
What was the military Reconstruction that began in March 1867
It hullified Johnsons programs.
How did Sherman's capture of Atlanta lead to the end of slavery in the U.S.?
It revitalized Northern support of the war at Lincoln.
How was the battle of Antietam a crucial victory for the Union?
It was the first battle to take place and the bloodiest.
Crittendens compromise
It would guarantee slavery where it already existed.
Martial Law
Military rule in Baltimore, where angry mobs had already attacked federal troops.
Confederacy
Remaining southern states.
_______ _. ___, liked many skilled senior officers in the U.S. Army, offered his services to the Confederacy and helped to quickly organize an effective Southern army.
Robert E. Lee
Senator John J. Crittenden proposed a ________ __ ___________ that included a series of constitutional _________ __________ thay would have reinstated the _________ __________ line all the way to California.
Series of ammedments Crittenders Compromise Missouri compromise
Although the Republicans reaffirmed the right of Southern states to preserve ___________, many southerners viewed Lincoln's election as a threat to their ________ and ________
Slavery Society Culture
After _______ ________ left the Union in December 1860, six more sates seceded in February 1861, including Mississippi, __________, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
South Carolina Flordia Georgia
What reforms did the Republicans make to the south?
Southern whites were Barred from participating in newly southern governments.
During the election of 1860, the Democracric party split into the Northern Democrats, who nominated _____________ ____________, and the Southerners Democrats, who nominated ______ ________
Stephen Douglas Dred Scott
What impact did the war have on the South's economy?
The collapse of transportation systems and presence of Union troops in several agriculture regions.
What outcome did Davis and Lee expect from a confederate invasion of the north?
The north recognized their independence.
What was Lincoln's plan for reuniting the country after the civil war called?
The proclamation of amnesty and the reconstitution.
What right did the 15th amendment guarantee to all Americans?
The right to vote shouldn't be denied on race and color.
What actions did the Ku Klux Klan take to show their opposition to the Republicans in the south?
The road in bands at night terrorizing African-Americans.
How did economics help to and Republican rule in the south and reconstruction
They all went bankrupt.
Why was President Johnson impeached?
They changed him high and crimes and misdemeaners.
What was a result of Lee's defeat at Gettysburg?
They discovered two brigades of union Calvary.
Why did southern voters in the new southern legislatures anger members of the Congress when they met December 1865?
They elected dozens of confederate leaders to congress.
What was the goal of the Union blockade of confederate ports and how did the confederacy try to get around it?
They had to use blockade runners.
How did African Americans take part in Southern politics?
This served as legislators and administrators.
What legal protections did the 14th amendment offer?
To grant citizenship to all people born or naturalized to the US.
What were the three main goals of the radical Republicans?
To prevent liters of confederacy from returning to power, republican party to become a powerful institution to the South, and they wanted federal government to help African-Americans achieve political equality.
Lincoln called for 75,000 military volunteers after the fall of Fort Sumter and created a crisis for the states in the _______ ______.
Upper South
How did women and African Americans participate in the Civil War?
Women managed farm and business. African Americans joined the navy.
Lincoln faced criticism when he suspended the _______ __ ________ ________ for anyone openly supporting rebels or encouraged others to resist the draft.
Writs of hobeas corpus
The Republicans nominated Lincoln because he believed that slavery was morally ________ and wanted to prevent its spread into the ________ _______________.
Wrong Western territores