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Civil War & Reconstruction Review (Era)

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    Review key facts about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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  • Where did the Civil War end?
    Appomattox Courthouse
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  • What amendment gave African-American men the right to vote?
    15th amendment
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  • What was the name of the system that helped slaves escape from the south to the north to freedom?
    Underground Railroad
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  • What is the term for a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit?
    Scalawag
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  • What were some of the economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy prior to the Civil War?
    Union-industrial economy, favored tariffs Confederacy-agricultural economy, opposed tariffs
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  • What Lincoln speech emphasized that a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth"?
    Gettysburg Address
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  • What laws were passed after the Civil War with the purpose of restricting African-Americans freedom?
    Black Codes
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  • What are abolitionists?
    People who want to end slavery
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  • What was the Ten Percent Plan?
    Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form new government after 10 percent of the voters swore an oath of allegiance to the United States
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  • Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who also was a spy for the Union army?
    Harriet Tubman
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  • Who was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress and represented Mississippi during Reconstruction?
    Hiram Rhodes Revels
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  • What was the reconstruction plan that asked for severely punishing the South?
    Radical Reconstruction
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  • What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
    An organization that was created to hep newly freed slaves by setting up schools and providing food
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  • What is a carpetbagger?
    A Northerner who moved South after the Civil War to take advantage of the conditions in the South
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  • In what speech did Lincoln state that his job as president was to preserve the union and that he had no desire to interfere with slavery where it already existed?
    Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
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  • How did California become a state?
    With the Compromise of 1850
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