history chapters 16-18

Amendment in the US Constitution adopted in 1865 banning slavery and servitude in the United States

13th amendment

An amendment that says equal protection of the laws, but did not include black suffrage

14th amendment

An African American regiment organized to fight the Union in the Civil war

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Freedmen's Bureau

An agency you set up schools and hospitals for African-Americans and distributed clothes, food, and a fuel throughout the south.

A former sleeve holder. The 17th president. A Democrat.

Andrew Johnson

How and when did the civil war start?

April 12, 1861. The south attacked Fort Sumter, is the beginning to the battle.

What was a regular civil war soldier like?

Are between 18-30 of age, a lot used to be farmers, most born in the USA, were excited to have experience with war, and were traveling the first time.

How did black soldiers aid the war effort?

They showed Great participation on the battlefield, and wore their uniform with pride.

Why did so many people volunteer to fight in the Civil war?

To escape the boredom of working in a factory or farm, to interact more with friends and neighbors, the recruitment money offered by both sides, and because some soldiers were loyal to their state or country.

The general who commanded the US Army during the Civil War and later became the 18th President of the US (1869-77). His greatest Civil War victory was at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and he accepted the surrender of Robert E Lee at Appomattox Court House.

Ulysses S. Grant

What advantages did the North have at the beginning of the civil war?

When the South was seceding, people rushed to enlist in the North to be on their side for the war. (More people on their side because of the South seceding) And had a lot of rail roads, ships, factories, and Abe Lincoln was agreeing with the North for ending slavery.

The agreement that resolved in 1876 select election dispute leopard bees became president and then remove the last federal troops from the south

Compromise of 1877

An order that was issued by Abe Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Freeing the slaves in all regions in rebellion against the Union.

Emancipation Proclamation

How's the 13th amendment different than the Encipation Proclamation?

Encipation Proclamation deals with freeing slaves in the Confedercy. The 13th amendment was used to show congress that slavery is unconstitutional. Both acts were done by Abe Lincoln.

A federal fort held in the harbor of Charleston, SC; the attack on the fort marked the beginning of the civil war.

Fort Sumter

How did Sherman's march help the union?

He created a war. Not just any were a war against enemy troops, but against everything that supports the enemy.

Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation proclamation?

He freed all slaves in Confederate territory.

What goal of the union strategy did US.Grant reach, and how did he do it?

He had a goal of finding the enemies. He captured two confederate river forts. The forts were "Henery" and "Donelson".

Conditions practiced to promote health

Hygiene

A warship covered with iron

Ironclad

How did the war change the national economy?

It helped the North by steal, food processing, and manufacturing grew faster.

A financial crisis in which banks close in the stock market collapsed

Panic of 1873

The process of the US government used to read met the confederate states to the union after the Civil War

Reconstruction

A gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air

Rifle

A general of the nineteenth century; the commander of Confederate troops during the Civil War. Before the war, he led the marines who put down the insurrection by John Brown at Harpers Ferry and took Brown captive.

Robert E. Lee

Scalawags and Carpetbagger

Scalawags were people who supported the Republican Party and Reconstruction, after the civil war. Carpetbagger are people that moved from the North to the South after the Civil war.

What systems of labor developed in the South after the Civil War?

Sharecropping, when a worker rented A plot of land to farm.

An 1863 Union victory in the Civil War that enabled the union to control the entire Mississippi River

Siege of Vicksberg

How did the Ku Klux Klan serve as the Democratic Party?

The clan wanted to restore the democratic control of the south and keep slaves powerless .

A civil war battle in which 25,00 men were killed or wounded

Battle of Antietam

An 1863 battle in the Civil war in which the Union defeated the confederacy

Battle of Gettysburg

A battle in 1862 in which the union forced the Confederacy to retrieve in some of the fiercest fighting in the civil war

Battle of Shiloh

What caused economic depression in the 1870s?

Because banks across the land closed. The buisness, activity, and employment was low.

Why did the 15th amendment create anger in many women?

Because they couldn't vote

Laws that limited freedom of former slaves

Black Codes

When armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area.

Blockade

A slave state that bordered states that which slavery was illegal.

Border State

A bill passed by Congress that applied to all citizens.

Civil rights

What were strategies to the North and South during the war?

The North had an Anaconda Plan, which is to hack the South economy. The South had king cotton, they got foreign support.

Why did so many soldiers become sick with diseases?

The camps were dirty and so were the soldiers, they went weeks without bathing, a lot of stuff was full of lice and flees. (LOTS OF GERMS caused the sicknesses)