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  • Name two men who wanted to preserve the Union?
    Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee
  • Define sectionalism.
    To be loyal to a specific part instead of the whole.
  • What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
    To support freedment with food, jobs, housing and other welfare necessities.
  • What previous legislation was the 13th amendment an extension of?
    Emancipation Proclamation
  • Which amedments are known as the "Reconstruction amendments?"
    13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
  • What was sharecropping?
    A system in which poor tenant farmers gave part of their harvest to the landowner as rent.
  • What were the goals of groups that were against the Reconstruction, such as the KKK?
    Incite fear, violence, murders, lyching; keep African Americans from voting; bring former Confederates back to power.
  • What was a turning point in the Civil War?
    Battle of Gettysburg
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  • What doctrine established during Reconstruction defined segregation?
    "Separated but equal" doctrine.
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  • What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
    Free all the slaves in the Confederacy.
  • Define secede
    To break away from something.
  • This text is from the
    15th Amendment
  • Which amendment abolished slavery?
    13th amendment
  • What laws created by Southern states kept black from excercising their rights?
    Black Codes
  • How were the North and the South called during the Civil War, respectively?
    Union and Confederacy
  • What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
    Runaway slaves left the South to join the Union army.
  • What are the states shaded red?
    Confederate States of America
  • Cite two causes of the civil war.
    Sectionalism, tariffs, secession and states sovereignty.
  • When Lincoln became president what was his first priority?
    To preserve the Union.
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