Unit 4 Vocab

Question 1

The leader of the Union army was ________?

Answer 1

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 2

The leader of the Confederate army was _______?

Answer 2

Robert E. Lee

Question 3

The ____________ was a Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy: blockade Southern ports, split the Confederacy in half at the Mississippi River, and take over the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

Answer 3

Anaconda Plan

Question 4

The first shots of the Civil War were at _____________ Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina

Answer 4

Fort Sumter

Question 5

Declared that all slaves living in areas currently under Confederate control were now free

Answer 5

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 6

A court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed

Answer 6

Habeas Corpus

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln used the _____________ to reassure Americans that they were right in fighting the bloody war as well as to remind Americans the principles in which the country had been founded.

Answer 7

Gettysburg Address

Question 8

The end of the Civil War was at ________________ where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 8

Appomattox Court House

Question 9

_____________ was a part of the Union army who also developed and carried out the March to the Sea.

Answer 9

William T. Sherman

Question 10

What Amendment is this?
- “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”

Answer 10

13th Amendment

Question 11

WHO is the 26 year-old assassin that killed Lincoln, actor, and southern sympathizer?

Answer 11

John Wilkes Booth

Question 12

Organization that was established to help free slaves and poor whites in the South with education, food, shelter, and medical needs

Answer 12

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 13

To formally charge a president with misconduct while in office

Answer 13

Impeach

Question 14

All persons naturalized in the U.S. citizens of the country; granted equal protection under the law

Answer 14

14th Amendment

Question 15

The period during which the federal government began the process of accepting those states who seceded back into the Union

Answer 15

Reconstruction

Question 16

Discriminatory laws severely restricted African American’s liver; had the effect of restoring many of the restrictions of slavery

Answer 16

Black Codes

Question 17

States that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; universal male suffrage

Answer 17

15th Amendment

Question 18

Group in Congress who believed it was the responsibility of Congress to oversee Reconstruction; They believed Johnson’s reconstruction plan was too lenient

Answer 18

Radical Republicans

Question 19

President during Reconstruction after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Answer 19

Andrew Johnson

Question 20

Referred to the belief that these northerners arrived with so few belongings that everything could fit in a carpetbag, a small piece of luggage made of carpeting

Answer 20

Carpetbagger

Question 21

Democrats who opposed the Republican’s plan for Reconstruction –> worse than the carpetbagger

Answer 21

Scalawag

Question 22

_______ was the first African American to serve in any house of Congress

Answer 22

Hiram Revels

Question 23

In _________, landowners divided their land and gave each worker a few acres to harvest in return for a portion of the crop back to the landowner

Answer 23

Sharecropping

Question 24

__________ allowed farmers to rent land for cash from planters and keep all of their harvest

Answer 24

Tenant Farming

Question 25

Republican candidate for president during the election of 1876

Answer 25

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 26

Violent domestic terrorist organization originally founded to restore white supremacy and terrorize African Americans from exercising their Constitutional rights

Answer 26

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Question 27

Ended Reconstruction; Allowed for Hayes to become president as long as the federal troops were removed from the South

Answer 27

Compromise of 1877

Question 28

Democratic candidate for president during the election of 1876

Answer 28

Samuel J. Tilden