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U.S HISTORY
CHAPTER 7
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ROBERT E. LEE DID NOT ACCEPT COMMAND OF THE UNION
TROOPS BECAUSE HIS HOME STATE WAS VIRGINIA.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION DECREED FREEDOM
FOR ALL ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN THE STATES AT WAR WITH
THE UNION.
THE INFAMOUS PRISON IN THE SOUTH WAS CALLED
ANDERSONVILLE.
BENJAMIN GRIERSONʼS FORCES TRAVELED 600 MILES IN
TWO WEEKS IN ORDER TO DISTRACT THE FORCES
DEFENDING VICKSBURG SO GRANT COULD MOVE SOUTH OF
THE CITY.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED WHILE WATCHING A
PLAY IN FORDS THEATER.
TO RECEIVE A PARDON UNDER LINCOLNʼS RECONSTRUCTION
PLAN, SOUTHERNERS HAD TO TAKE AN OATH OF LOYALTY TO
THE U.S. AND ACCEPT THE UNIONʼS PROCLAMATIONS
CONCERNING SLAVERY.
IN 1866 REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS FEARED THAT
PRESIDENT JOHNSON COULD INTERFERE BY REFUSING TO
ENFORCE THEIR LAWS.
IN THE ELECTION OF 1868, ULYSSES S. GRANT WON
SEVERAL SOUTHERN STATES BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF
UNION TROOPS IN THE SOUTH ALLOWED AFRICAN
AMERICANS TO VOTE.
THE “WHISKEY RING” WAS A GROUP OF GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS AND DISTILLERS WHO FILED FALSE TAX REPORTS.
THE SOUTH HAD A GREATER ABILITY TO PRODUCE FOOD
THAN THE NORTH.
HARDTACK WAS A TYPE OF BISCUIT MADE OF WHEAT FLOUR.
THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION THAT BANNED
SLAVERY WAS THE THIRTEENTH.
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LINCOLNʼS PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION CALLED FOR
RECONCILING WITH THE SOUTH.
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UNDER THE REPUBLICANSʼ RECONSTRUCTION PLAN,
BEFORE FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES COULD ELECT
PEOPLE TO CONGRESS, THEY HAD TO RATIFY THE 14TH
AMENDMENT.
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SCALAWAGS WERE WHITE SOUTHERNERS WHO SUPPORTED
RECONSTRUCTION.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAUSED FOUR STATES TO JOIN THE
CONFEDERACY BY CALLING FOR MORE TROOPS.
17)RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WAS THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL. IT WAS
ONLY ABOUT A HUNDRED MILES FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
18)SHILOH WAS A BATTLE NAMED AFTER A SMALL CHURCH.
19)THE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE ENTIRE CIVIL WAR WAS THE
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM.
20)AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NORTH GREETED THE
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION JOYFULLY.
21)WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANʼS “MARCH TO THE SEA” HEADED
TOWARD SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
22)IN THE CIVIL WAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THOUSANDS OF
WOMEN SERVED AS NURSES.
23)“ PEACE DEMOCRATS” BECAME KNOWN AS COPPERHEADS.
24)HABEAS CORPUS GUARANTEED ACCUSED INDIVIDUALS THE
RIGHT TO A HEARING BEFORE BEING JAILED.
25)GETTYSBURG WAS A BATTLE BEGAN WHEN THE UNION
CAVALRY SURPRISED THE REBEL INFANTRY RAIDING THE TOWN
FOR SHOES.
26)IN 1861, 48 VIRGINIA COUNTIES ORGANIZED THEMSELVES AS A
SEPARATE STATE CALLED WEST VIRGINIA.
27)THE MAIN GOAL OF THE NORTH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
WAS TO REUNITE THE COUNTRY.
28)GENERAL P.G.T BEAUREGARD FOUGHT AGAINST GENERAL IRVIN
McDOWELL AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
29)CONFEDERATE SHIPS THAT BROKE THROUGH THE NORTHʼS
LINE OF DEFENSE WERE CALLED BLOCKADE RUNNERS.
30)SHILOH WAS AN APRIL BATTLE THAT LASTED ONLY TWO DAYS,
BUT INCLUDED SOME OF THE MOST BLOODY FIGHTING OF THE
WAR.