Civil War and Reconstruction

Identify what the Emancipation Proclamation did.

• freed slaves in the Confederate states
• ended slavery in the entire country
• freed slaves in the border states
• ended the Civil War

Where would you MOST LIKELY find an abolitionist?

• North

• South

• Border states

War between people of the same country is called...

• secede

• state's rights

• civil war

• slavery

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

An abolitionist wants to

• spread slavery

• fight for the South (Confederacy)

• withdraw from the Union

• end slavery

How did many Southern slaveholders view the issue of slavery?

• As a source of labor, slavery was considered an economic issue
• Slavery was considered immoral and should be abolished
• Slavery was considered a historical tradition and should be maintained
• Controversial, slavery was considered a political problem the government should solve

The purpose of the Union's blockade of South Carolina's coastline during the Civil War was__________________________________. (3-4.5) 

• to steal shipments of cotton
• to stop supplies from entering the state
•  to be in position to attack southern states 
•  to make it easier to transport soldiers from place to place

What was segregation?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people

• the forced separation of races

• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• the period of time after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt

What does nullify mean?

• To not tell the truth

• To cancel a law if the state does not agree with it

• To pay taxes on goods

• To sell land to sharecroppers