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47 Cards in this Set
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The Civil War was fought here to rebuild this area physically.
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South
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How much damage did Sherman cause
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$100 million
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What happened to 1/5 of the adult white male population
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Dead
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What raised taxes in the south dramatically
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Money
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Who wre white southerners who joined the Republican party or supported the north during te war-use this for political gain.
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Scalawags
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Who were northerners who moved south after the Civil War (carried their belongings in a carpetbag) went south to become rich- or just wanted to help African Americans.
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Carpetbaggers
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WHo was now allowed t vote (although they couldn't read or write)
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African Americans
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WHat percent of freed slaves were illiterate
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90%
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What was a major objective of newly freed slaves
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reuniting families
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Who had no skills andmany stayed and worked for their former owners.
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African Americans
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What was it called when they rent land and keep all the crops for themselves
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Tenant Farming
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What invollved the former slaves not unable to leave their land if they were in debt (seeds, tools)
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Roots Law
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When was the first Battle of BUll RUn
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July 21, 1861
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What involved working hard to create an educational system for African Americans - new Churches, schools, colleges, hospitals, social organizations.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Battle of Fort Sumter when was it
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April 12-14 1861
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Battle of Gettysburg when was it
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July 1-3 1863
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WHen was Lincolns assassination
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April 15, 1865
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WHen was Lincon's assassination
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April 15, 1865
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When was the Battle of Antietam
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September 17, 1862
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When was the fall of Richmond to Union troops
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April 2, 1865.
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When was the 1st Battle of Bull Run
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July 21, 1861
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19th century warship with sides armoured with metal plates
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Ironclad
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was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) following his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and effectively ended the war with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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1.Any of a number of stout-bodied venomous snakes with coppery-pink or reddish-brown coloration, in particular
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Copperhead
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a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.[3] His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863; the general survived with the loss of an arm to amputation.
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Stonewall Jackson
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Many ___ southerners began to rebel against reconstruction
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white
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WHat started in 1866 (Nathan Forest) in Tennessee- by 1868 the KKK in every state; between 1868 and 1871 the KKK killed thousands
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Ku Klux Klan
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What involved destrying the Republican Party and keeping freed slaves down, and lso attacked whites who supported the Freedmen's Bureau and equal rights for blacks.
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Ku Klux Klan goals
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What was the economic depression that hit the nation
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Panic of 1873
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When did reconstruction end.
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1876
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(Money issued during the Civil War not backed by gold) Govt. began to withdraw Greenbacks out of circulation (with no substitute)
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Greenbacks
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Trie to get rid of Grant but did not succeed but id did split the Republican Party
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Liberal Party
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Secretary of War who accepted bribes frm tradingmerchants
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1876 William Belknap
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Was President Grant involved in scndals
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No
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State governments controlled themselves. Federal government stays out of state business.
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Home Rule
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1. Civil Rights took a step back
2. Federal govt. helped to rebuild railroads in the south 3. Southern democrats demanded withdrawal of federal troops and got it with this |
3 Steps of Home Rule
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Who should have won the election of 1876
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Samuel Tilden
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Co. took profits from a govt. contract (owned by Congressmen)- vice president Scuyle Colfax involved. What involved this
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Credit Mobilier Construction Company 1872
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Some members of the Republicans not happy with the corruption and began to form a new political party. What was it called.
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The Liberal Party
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White southerners were able to vote after the Amnesty Act of 1872 gave ___ Confederates the right to vote and run for office.
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160,000
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an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.
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William Sherman
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two United States federal banking acts that established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System. They encouraged development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of the United States Department of the Treasury and authorized the Comptroller to examine and regulate nationally chartered banks.
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National Bank Act
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an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history
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Jefferson Davis
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a borough in and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States,[3] and the eponym for the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg
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Gettysburg
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an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses.
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Dorothea Dix
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gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead" – typically 160 acres (65 hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River.
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Homestead Act
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an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It was not a law passed by Congress. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time
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Emancipation Proclomation
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