Download The Civil War and Reconstruction Students will analyze the causes

The Civil War and Reconstruction
Students will analyze the causes and effects of the major events of the Civil War and
Reconstruction
Civil War Era Political Leaders
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Abraham Lincoln ~ How did he increase the powers of the President? What did
he do to his political enemies?
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Andrew Johnson
1. From TN, he was a member of this Party _________
2. How did his Reconstruction Policies differ from those of the Radical
Republican Congress?
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Jefferson Davis
1860 Political Crisis
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What is SECESSION?
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What political party did it divide?
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What is/was a War Democrat?
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The election of ____________ _____________in ________ as President of the
United States, brought about a secession crisis in the state of ________
____________.
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President Lincoln’s decision to send food and relief supplies to this fort provoked
South Carolina into firing the first shots of the Civil War. _______________
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What is the name given to the country formed by the southern states that seceded
from the Union? __________________________. Where was it’s capital?
___________________. Its 1st National Flag was called the _______ and
__________.
Today, some would say that the Confederate _________ __________ is associated with
hate groups and is a painful reminder of slavery in the United States. Others celebrate
these Confederate symbols as part of a proud heritage of sacrifice and the unique
southern culture.
Did all southern, slave - holding states secede from the Union? ____ If not, name them:
Military Strategy of the Union / Federal Government (Offense or Defense?)
To Free the Slaves or To Preserve the Union?
President Lincoln’s call for 150 thousand volunteers, and his initial motive for using
military force against the Confederacy was __________________.
____________, however, was not his initial motive.
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The Union military strategy was known as ____ ___________ _________.
It was designed to:
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Capture __________________
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Cut off the commerce of the Confederacy with a ________ ____________
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Divide the Confederacy in two by gaining control of the
_________________ _____________
Military Strategy of the Confederate States
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(Offense or Defense?)
It was designed to:
1. Defend________________________________
2. Gain international _____________ __________________
Important Military Leaders and Personalities
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Union Leaders
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2.
3.
4.
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George McClellan
Admiral David G. Farragut
General Ulysses S. Grant
General George G. Meade
Confederate Leaders
1. General Robert E. Lee
2. General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
3. General George Pickett
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Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Important Battles & Campaigns
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Fort Sumter
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Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas)
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Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
1. What was the Emancipation Proclamation and what did it do?
2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation not do?
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Monitor & Merrimac (CSS Virginia)
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Battle of Gettysburg
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What does the term “High Water Mark of the Confederacy” mean?
2. What was the Gettysburg Address?
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New Orleans and the Vicksburg Campaign
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Appomattox Court House
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Assassination of Lincoln:
Reconstruction 1865 ~ 1877
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What was “Reconstruction”? How was it enforced in the former Confederacy?
a. The Freedman’s Bureau:
b. The Black Codes & Jim Crow
c. Loyalty Oaths:
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What were the two competing plans / approaches to Reconstruction?
1. Advocated by the President:
2. Advocated by Congress:
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Who or What were the “Carpetbaggers”?
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Who or What were the “Scalawags”
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Who or What were the “Redeemers”
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What are the Civil War Amendments? What did they do?
1. 13th Amendment:
2. 14th Amendment:
3. 15th Amendment
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Reconstruction ended in the year ______ following the contested election of
_____ which pitted ___________ against __________.
Southerners called the end of Reconstruction _______________.