Unit 6 Study Guide: USE THE QUIZLET CARDS TO HELP ANSWER THE QUESTIONS Explain the significance of the following battles: Gettysburg Fort Sumter Vicksburg Bull Run Antietam Identify the following people: Ulysses S. Grant Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Thomas J Stonewall Jackson Robert E Lee William T. Sherman Give an explanation of the following Amendments: 13 14 15
Define the following: Carpet Bagger Scalawag Reconstruction Presidential Reconstruction Answer the following: What was Lincoln s goal as President? What was a characteristic of the South during the Civil War? What were some characteristics of the North during the Civil War? What happened immediately after Lincoln winning the Presidency in 1860? What is the connection between Robert E Lee and Virginia? Why was the North so economically successful during the war? What was the purpose of the Freedmen s Bureau? What war was the 13, 14, and 15th amendments passed after? When and why was the Ku Klux Klan started? What group was funded by the Federal government?
What are some key characteristics of the Freedmen s Bureau? What group of people benefitted the most from the passage of the 13, 14, and 15th amendments? What three amendments recognized the basic civil liberties of all races? What were the Black Codes? What political party was most beneficial to the North? What is a Carpet Bagger and give an example? What were former slaves promised? What is the definition of a scalawag? Why was Reconstruction a failure? Who angered the Radical Republicans? What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan? What were most African Americans left out of after Reconstruction? Why would the Ku Klux Klan target Southern voters?
Pictures/Maps/Excerpts: This is an image go Scott s Great Snake, what was another name for this plan? What battle does this picture describe?
Sherman believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken. Sherman therefore applied the principles of scorched earth: he ordered his troops to burn crops, kill livestock, consume supplies, and destroy civilian infrastructure along their path. What war tactic does this describe? Why would Sherman use this tactic? Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed. --Abraham Lincoln, 1861 What does Lincoln order in this excerpt? "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. This is an excerpt from Lincoln s second inaugural address, after what war was this speech given?
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom..." - The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln What was Lincoln s purpose for giving this speech? "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." - Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution What is the purpose of this amendment?