Vocabulary to Know

Vocabulary to Know

Vocabulary to know

  • Civil War
  • First Battle of Bull Run
  • Casualty
  • War of Attrition
  • Battle of Antietam
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Battle of Gettysburg
  • Siege
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  1. What happened at Fort Sumter?
  2. How many states were there at the beginning of the war for both the North and the South?
  3. List the advantages for the North and the South.
  4. What were the comparison of resources between the North and the South – ierailroad, industry, and population?
  5. What was the Battle of Bull Run?
  6. What type of new weaponry existed in this war? How did it change the way the battlefield looked? What did it mean for the battlegrounds and the soldiers fighting the war?
  7. What was the role of the medical teams on the Battlefield?
  8. Who was Clara Barton?
  9. What happened at the Battle of Antietam? What was this significance?
  10. What does, “A fast doctor is a good doctor,” mean?
  11. Explain the Emancipation Proclamation. What did it state and how did the South react?
  12. What was explained in the Gettysburg address? What occurred at Gettysburg? Who won?
  13. What does Lincoln’s reconstruction plan look like?
  14. Who kills Lincoln and why does he do it?
  15. Who is his vice president? Why is he not good for the nation?
  16. What did his new vision of reconstruction look like?
  17. Why is the reconstruction period sometimes referred to as a “Second Civil War”?

IMPORTANT NOTES

Sherman’s March

•He is considered to be one of the greatest war generals.

•Tries to further swing the power to overwhelm the South – the North has the advantage

•Many cities have been burned down

•He decides to move North towards Grant, another Union general, who was positioned in Petersburg.

•He is going to ruin the remains of the Southerners resources on the journey

•Every few homes along the path were torched and burned to the ground

Lincoln is Re-elected

•In 1864 Lincoln is reelected

•He leads the nation to victory

•Puts out a plan of “Reconstruction” to rebuild the broken nation

•Includes ideas of bringing African Americans into power

•A Southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, is outraged

•He finds out Pres. Lincoln’s plan to visit Ford Theatre and hides behind the Presidential suite, waiting for the play to begin and he shoots Lincoln in the head.

•Many thought that it was just part of the play.

Vocabulary

  • Know all vocabulary on the vocab worksheet.
  • Know the three corruption scandals under Ulysses S. Grant
  • Know “Boss” Tweed’s story and Tammany Hall.

Questions:

  1. What are the differences between the three plans for Reconstruction? Explain the Radical Republican Plan, Lincoln’s Plan and Johnson’s Plan.
  2. Who killed Lincoln? Why did he do it?
  3. What was the Wade Davis Bill? Who were they trying to protect?
  4. Explain the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments? How are they all related? Why did they need to be passed?
  5. What is the Freedmen’s Bureau? What did they hope to do? How did they create change?
  6. Why did the Southerners come up with the names carpetbaggers and scallywags?
  7. How did Johnson differ from Lincoln? Where was he from? What were his beliefs? Who did he favor? Who did he dislike?
  8. What are black codes? How are they related to Jim Crowe laws?
  9. Explain the difference between a sharecropper and a tenant farmer? Who had the advantage?
  10. Why is Reconstruction called the Second Civil War?
  11. Why was Johnson Impeached?
  12. What Civil Rights were provided to freed blacks?
  13. What was the role of the literacy test?
  14. Why did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 fail? What did it hope to do?
  15. What scandals plagued Grant’s administration? Explain each.
  16. Who was Boss Tweed? What role did Thomas Nast play in taking him down?
  17. Explain how the Political Crisis of 1877 is likened to the Corrupt Bargain of Jackson. What did it entail?
  18. Explain the KKK. What tactics did they use? What did they want?
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