Civil War for Review Day

What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?

• to strike quickly at key cities and a military bases in the South

• to gain foreign support for the Union Army in their fight against the South

• to surround the Confederate states and cut them off from help and supplies

• to place Confederate armies like a wall around the northern states

What occurred in 1860 that was a cause of the Civil War?

• Naval blockade of the South

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• 13th Amendment abolishes slavery

• First enslaved persons arrive from Africa

What is a carpetbagger?

• They filled the jobs of Union soldiers who died in battle.

• They provided political assistance to freedmen who moved North after the war.

• They profited off of the damaged economy in the post-war South.

• They ran for Congress in order to support the passage of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

Which Reconstruction Plan would anger the South the most?

• President Johnson's Plan

• The Radical Republican's Plan

• President Lincoln's Plan

• The Ten Percent Plan

What did the South enact to circumvent the 14th and 15th Amendments?

• Most northern abolitionists opposed the extension of these rights.

• The Supreme Court refused to accept cases to interpret these amendments.

• Radical Republicans in Congress stopped African Americans from voting.

• The South passed Jim Crow laws/Black Codes

What was a result of sharecropping?

• Cotton was no longer a profitable crop.

• Sharecroppers were sold more land than they could farm.

• Freedmen were able to achieve economic independence from their former masters.

• Freedmen were trapped in a cycle of debt to the landowner

What is the Relationship between the Kansas Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise?

• It strengthened the Missouri Compromise

• It overturned the Missouri Compromise

• They both freed the slaves in the West

• Both pieces of legislation was brought about by Lincoln

What did Ulysses Grant achieve during the war?

• He led his troops through Georgia on a “March to the Sea,” destroying farms and towns.

• He won the battle of Vicksburg, and accepts the surrender of Lee

• He developed the Anaconda Plan and ran against Lincoln in the Presidential election of 1864.

• He surrendered to General Lee after the Battle of Gettysburg

What does Nadir mean?

• High Point

• Low Point

• Equality

• Salt

What was the low point of America Race Relations after Reconstruction?

• Jim Crow and Black Codes

• 21 Amendment

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson