APUSH Unit 6 Test

Civil War

1861-1865

Lincoln’s Goals

* __**Preserve the Union**__
* Needs __border states__ (industry)
* “Buffer zone”
* Institutes material law
* __Suspends “habeas corpus”__ (suppress pro-south uprising)

Border States

* These states __did not secede__
* __Vital__ to the __success of the Union__
* Contained __transportation__ and __communication__ lines that were vital to the war
* __Missouri__
* __Kentucky__
* __Maryland__
* __Delaware__

States that seceded AFTER Fort Sumter

* V- __Virginia__
* A- __Arkansas__
* N- __North Carolina__
* T- __Tennessee__

Emancipation Proclamation

Sept. 1862

* __Jan. 1st all slaves in states in rebellion will be free__
* Now makes it a __moral war__
* __Increases African-American enlistments__

Antietam Battle

* Was a __draw__ but __loss for Lee__ that was forced to retreat south
* __**No foreign help**__
* __Lincoln gets the win he needs__

Sharecropping System

* __“Forty Acres and a Mule”__
* __**Working for a share of the crop as a tenant farmer**__
* Ties freedmen to the land

Scalawag

* __Southerners__ who __take advantage of Reconstruction__ and __cooperate with the new gov. in the south__
* Seen as __disloyal to other southerners__

Tenure of Office Act

* Intended to __restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders__ without the approval of the U.S. Senate
* Radical Republicans said Johnson violated it
* __Lead to his impeachment__

Habeas Corpus

an order __requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court__ at a specified time and __place in order to determine the legality of the imprisonment__

* __Lincoln suspends law during the war__
* Would __suppress pro-South uprising__

13th Amendment (1865)

__Abolishes slavery__ in the US

* __**[Free]**__

14th Amendment (1868)

__Equal protection__ under the law __(due process)__

* __Former slaves are now citizens__ __**[Citizen]**__

15th Amendment

You may __not be denied the right to vote on the basis of race or former condition__ (__**like being a slave)**__

* __Suffrage__, right to vote __**[Vote]**__

Jim Crow Laws

__Southern attempts to keep Freedmen from voting__

* Laws were all about __“separate but equal”__
* __Segregating__ blacks from whites

Morrill Land Grant Act

__Agricultural__ and __Mining colleges__

Freedmen’s Bureau

Educate, feed, and __help former slaves assimilate into society__ (poor whites also)

Compromise of 1877

* __Hayes president__
* __**Reconstruction is over, US troops leave the south**__
* “Redeemers” take over the south

Lincoln’s 10% Plan

When __10% of the eligible voters of a state pledged allegiance to the US__, the __state could be re-admitted__

* Lincoln’s __attempt to put the country back together__

Crittenden Compromise

An __effort to stop the impending secession of some Southern states__

* Proposed to __extend the Missouri Compromise line westward and northward to California__

Key Battles

* __Gettysburg__
* Turning point
* __Vicksburg__
* __**Control of Miss. River**__
* __Sherman’s March__
* Captures Atlanta

Homestead Act

Provided __public land for private use__

* __160 acres on the Plains__
* Goal was to __settle the west__

Radical Republicans

Feel Lincoln abuses power and is too soft on emancipation

* __**Want military occupation of the South after the war**__

Seward’s Folly

1867, Sec. of State __William Seward purchases Alaska from Russia__

Election of 1876

* __Hayes__- GOP
* __Tilden__- Dem
* Neither has enough electoral votes


* __Compromise of 1877__