CHAPTER 7 STUDY GUIDE

o  Robert E. Lee did not accept command of the Union troops because

o  The Emancipation Proclamation

o  The infamous prison in the South was called

o  The map shows the site of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the east. That battle took place at

o  Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while

o  To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and

o  In 1866 Republicans in Congress feared that President Johnson could interfere by

o  In the election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant won several Southern states because

o  The “Whiskey Ring” was

o  All of the following were Northern advantages over the South EXCEPT

o  The North’s Anaconda Plan proposed all of the following EXCEPT

o  Hardtack was a

o  Shortly after McClellan’s victory at Antietam, Lincoln fired him because he

o  Study the map. Capturing Vicksburg was an important objective for the North because

o  The Amendment to the Constitution that banned slavery was the

o  Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called for

o  Under the Republicans’ Reconstruction plan, before former Confederate states could elect people to Congress, they had to

o  Scalawags were

o  Reconstruction ended when

Wade-Davis Bill
Majority of adult white men in former Confederate states must take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Former Confederate states must hold constitutional convention to create a new state government.
State conventions to abolish slavery, reject debts acquired in Confederacy.
Former Confederate government officials are prohibited from voting or holding office.

o  Under the Wade-Davis Bill, the chief objectives were to end slavery forever and to

o  According to the chart above, under the proposed terms of the Wade-Davis Bill, restrictions were harshest on

o  What did Congress pass in 1862 that created a national currency and allowed the government to issue paper money?

o  Criticism greeted President Lincoln’s decision to suspend a person’s right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a

* New Orleans, the South’s largest city and a center of the cotton trade, was in Union hands due to a daring move made by

* It was clear that a large, well-trained army would be needed to defeat the South after the Union defeat at

* The 54th Massachusetts, which became one of the most famous regiments in the war, was the first

* Early on April 6, 1862, Confederate forces launched a surprise attack on Grant’s troops camped about 20 miles north of Corinth, Mississippi, near a small church named

* What Union victory cut the Confederacy in two?

* What was passed on January 31, 1865, banning slavery in the United States?

* What battle was the turning point of the war in the east?