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Ch.6 Civil War and Reconstruction. By Matthew Pippin. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) 20,000 soldiers died. Bloodiest one day battle in the history of U.S. Battle of Antietam Sept. 17, 1862 Battle plans of south had fallen into the hands of Northern soldiers. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ch.6 Civil War and Reconstruction
• By Matthew Pippin
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Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
• Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862)
• 20,000 soldiers died
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Bloodiest one day battle in the history of U.S
• Battle of Antietam• Sept. 17, 1862• Battle plans of south
had fallen into the hands of Northern soldiers.
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After a victory at this battle, the Union gained control of the
Mississippi River.
• Battle of Vicksburg• May 15-July 4, 1863
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Battle that marked the turning point of the Civil War
• Battle of Gettysburg • South no longer had
the ability to launch an offensive into the Union territory
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March made during civil war that destroyed everything in a 60 mile wide path from
Chattanooga, Tennessee, through Atlanta, to Savannah, Georgia.
• Sherman’s March to the Sea. May-December, 1864
• The brutal destruction of southern towns created bitterness between North and South that exists to some degree today.
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Site where Lee surrendered to Grand ending the Civil War
• Appomattox Courthouse
• April 9,1865
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Guarantees that a person can not be imprisoned without appearing in
court.
• Right of Habeas Corpus
• Lincoln suspended it in Maryland to stop confederate support there.
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Act that said that anyone who agreed to cultivate 160 acres of land for five years would own it.
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Greatly increased the settlement of the west.
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Act that allotted each state thousands of acres that was used
to fund one public university
• Morrill Land Grant Act
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Proclamation that freed the slaves in the Confederate States, wile maintaining slavery
in the border states.
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Done to give civil war a moral focus beyond saving the union
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Amendment that abolished slavery
• 13th amendment
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A Bureau that was formed after the civil war to help people with basic necessities such as food,
schools for blacks, medical care, and find work for
free Blacks.
• Freedman’s Bureau
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Person who farms a piece of land for the land owner and pays with a
portion of the crop
• Sharecropper
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Person who assassinated President Lincoln
• John Wilkes Booth
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Southern sympathizer who became president after death of Lincoln
• Vice President Andrew Johnson
• Wanted mild reconstruction that kept blacks out of office.
• Allowed southern states to enter union under Lincoln’s plan of reconstruction
• Congress refused and started their own form of reconstruction.
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Series of laws passed by southern states that made blacks second
class citizens.
• Black codes
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Radical ReconstructionCongress passed the Wade-Davis
bill.
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Passed on June 13,1866,stated that “All persons born or naturalized
in the U.S. are Citizens”• 14th Amendment
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Features of Reconstruction Act
• With exception of Tennessee, all former Confederate states would be in five military districts
• Southern states would not be readmitted until they ratified the 14th amendment
• Black Citizens must be granted the right to vote
• Former Confederate officials could not hold public office.
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People who came from the north to do business in the south after civil
war
Carpetbaggers
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Southerners who supported Reconstruction after civil war
• Scalawags
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Founded in 1866 it used terrorism and violence to intimidate blacks and designed to remove from
power the people in Reconstruction government.
• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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Act passed by President Grant that allowed Martial Law to be declared if civil rights of Blacks was
interfered with.
• Punitive Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.
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Compromise that despite political corruption allowed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to win the
presidency and ended Reconstruction for the
south.• Compromise of 1877.
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Affects of Compromise of 1877
• Democrats agreed to accept the election process
• The Republicans agreed to:• 1. Appoint a southerner to
Presidents cabinet• 2. provide federal money
for railroads in the south and for flood control along Mississippi.
• 3. To withdraw federal troops from the south.
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Laws passed by southern states that required blacks to use separate public facilities and pay poll
taxes, pass literacy test to vote.
• Jim Crow Laws