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What was Reconstruction?
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Period after Civil War bring South back into
the Union
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President who led Reconstruction after Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson
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Laws that restricted freedoms of African-Americans
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Black Codes
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Group in Congress that wanted strong federal role
in Reconstruction
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Radical Republicans
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Groups that fought Radical Reconstruction in the
South
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1. Democratic Party
2. Ku Klux Klan
3. White League

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Put South under military rule, denied ex-CSA
voting rights
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Reconstruction Acts of 1867
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First African-American in U.S. Senate
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Hiram Revels
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Name the 3 Reconstruction constitutional
amendments
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13th all slaves are FREE 14th all
natural-born are CITIZENS 15th all men can VOTE
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Name the 3 Reconstruction land acts
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Homestead Act free western land for
settlers Morrill Act AM colleges Dawes Act
gave Natives farm land
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How did Reconstruction Era end?
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African-Americans lost many rights 100 years of
Jim Crow
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Belief that America was destined to expand west
to the Pacific
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Manifest Destiny
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President Polk added this by treaty with Britain
in 1846
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Oregon
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Annexed as the 28th state in 1845
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Texas
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Conflict caused by dispute over Texas boundary
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Mexican War
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Treaty that officially ended the Mexican War
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Religious group that migrated to Utah in 1846
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Mormons
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Immigrants who fled the Potato Famine in their
home country
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Irish
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Territory ceded to U.S. after the Mexican War
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Mexican Cession CANCUNW
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Nickname for people who migrated during the Gold
Rush
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Forty-niners
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Population boom allowed this to become a state in
1850
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California
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Main product of the Souths economy
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cotton
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Economic activity that was much larger in the
North
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Manufacturing
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Law that allowed free slaves in the North to be
recaptured
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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Novel that portrayed slavery as cruel and
un-Christian
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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Slave who sued for his freedom in Supreme Court
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Dred Scott
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Won the presidential election of 1860
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Abraham Lincoln
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Key issues dividing the country through the 1850s
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1. Federal vs. state power (federalism)
2. Expansion of slavery westward

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Name the two main outcomes of Dred Scott v.
Sandford
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1. Slaves are not citizens
2. Congress cant limit slavery

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First state to secede from the Union
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South Carolina
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Who was chosen to be president of the Confederacy?
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Jefferson Davis
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Site of the first battle of the Civil War
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Fort Sumter, SC
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Commander of the Confederate army
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General Robert E. Lee
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What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?
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Squeeze the Southern economy so they couldnt
keep fighting
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Name two advantages the South had in the war
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1. Fighting on home turf
2. Highly motivated
3. Better military leaders

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Name two advantages the North had in the war
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1. Bigger population
2. Better logistics railroads, industry
3. Better political leadership from Lincoln

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How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the
war?
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1. African-Americans joined the Union military
2. Slaves left the plantations

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Major Confederate defeat that turned the war for
the Union
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Named commander of the Union army in March 1864
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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Site of General Lees surrender to General Grant
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Appomattox Court House, VA
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Why was the Battle of Vicksburg an important
Union victory?
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Union now controlled the Mississippi River
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Site where gold was discovered in California
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Sutters Mill
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Staged a failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry,
VA in 1859
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John Brown
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Reason for the first expeditions on the Oregon
Trail
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Missionary work
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Led the Mormon Migration to Salt Lake City, UT
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Brigham Young
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Civil War nurse who later founded the Red Cross
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Clara Barton
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Name three complete states that came from the
Mexican Cession
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CA, UT, NV
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What did Lincoln say in his 1st Inaugural
Address?
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Souths secession was illegal
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Name two weapons innovations that led to high
casualties in the Civil War
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1. Rifled musket barrel
2. Minie ball bullet

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• Name two of these dates
• Civil War begins
• Civil War ends
• Lincoln assassinated

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1. April 12, 1861
2. April 9, 1865
3. April 14, 1865

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With malice towards none, with charity for all
comes from ?
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Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Address