Unit7 vocab

Question 1

This era was marked by a plan that many in the union felt was simply too lenient to the confederate states which had relatively few requirements for rejoining the union

Answer 1

Presidential reconstruction

Question 2

The very first armed conflict of the civil war occurred when union ships tried to reply a union fort in the harbor of a confederate state

Answer 2

Battle of fort Sumter

Question 3

An arrangement by which non land owning farmers could rent land, paying for its use by promising the land owners a share of each years crop as payment

Answer 3

Sharecropping

Question 4

This executive action made all enslaved people in the South free as of January 1st, 1863 though it would not be announced in Texas till June 19th, 1865

Answer 4

The emancipation proclamation

Question 5

This was an extended campaign conducted by Union General William T. Sherman, stretching from Atlanta to Savanah, Georgia and designed to devastate the moral of the south

Answer 5

March to the sea

Question 6

This battle began as a six long siege at the end of the battle, the Union had successfully captured the city and the Confederacy and had been cut in two

Answer 6

Battle of Vicksburg

Question 7

This battle is considered to be one of the most critical and consequential of the was a Turing point which shifted the war in favor of the Union

Answer 7

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 8

This era was marked by the Reconstruction Acts and the division of the former Confederate states into five military districts

Answer 8

Congressional Reconstruction

Question 9

These laws were rooted in racism and sought to segregate non whites from white society and to deny non whites their civil liberties

Answer 9

Jim Crow Laws

Question 10

This agency was meant to provide employment assistance, legal aid and other forms of help to freed people’s

Answer 10

The freedmen’s Bureau