Chapter 4. Study Guide

1. The Civil War and Reconstruction Chapter 4. Study Guide Sherry Woods, Caywood Elementary School Lexington, TN

2. Northerners fought in the Civil War because they thought it was wrong for the Southern states to leave the Union

3. The four border states were: Kentucky Maryland Missouri Delaware

4. They were considered border states because they didn’t leave the Union, but some of them owned Slaves

5. Some people in the border states fought for the North while others fought for the __________. South

6. People in the border states remained citizens of the __________ ________ instead of joining the Confederacy. United States

7. What is the name of the system developed in the South to keep the plantations operating after slavery ended. Sharecropping

8. The organization set up to help former slaves was the Freedman's Bureau

9. General Sherman’s march to the sea was an effort to destroy everything in _______________ that could help the South in the war. Georgia

10. When the Union army captured ______________________, the south was cut in two at the Mississippi River. Vicksburg, Mississippi

11. The most successful Union general during the Civil War. Ulysses G. Grant

12. Which battle in 1862 convinced President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? Antietam

13. Africans formed every kind of regiment except cavalry in the Civil War. True or False False

14. Reconstruction ended when the last ____________________ troops left the south in 1877. Union

15. One state split in two over the slavery issue and became the states of ___________ and ________ ______________. West Virginia Virginia

16. Who took over factory, business, and farm jobs when the men from the North and the South went to war? Women

17. Why were most Southerners willing to fight in the Civil War? Independence from the NORTH

18. _______________________ was led by President Johnson as an effort to bring the country back together after the Civil War. Reconstruction

19. People who were not in the military are known as ___________________. (mostly women, old men, and children) civilians

20. The name insultingly given to Southerners who supported the government after the Civil War. scalawags

21. What is the practice of separating people in schools, churches, and other public places known as? segregation

22. What is the murder of a political leader called? assassination

23. Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln? John Wilkes Booth

24. What was the name of the famous speech given at Gettysburg? The Gettysburg Address

25. Which amendment ended slavery? 13th

26. Which amendment gave ALL people the right to vote regardless of race? 15th

27. Which amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States including former slaves? 14th

28. Once Reconstruction ended, white southerners again took political control and passed the ________ ________ to limit the rights of former slaves. black codes

29. Some southern states elected _____________ Americans to Congress after the war ended. African

30. Southern states were allowed to hold ______________, and choose their own state leaders after the Civil War was over. elections

31. The Confederate leader who chose not to lead the north because his home state, Virginia had joined the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee

32. After President Abraham Lincoln was killed, his Vice President, ________________________ became the seventeenth President of the United States. Andrew Johnson

33. Which Confederate state was the first to rejoin the Union after the Civil War ended? Tennessee