EOCT Review –Chapters 11 - 12 of US Hist. Text

Define the following vocabulary:

  1. Habeas Corpus: anyone imprisoned must be before a judge to determine if being legally held- suspended by Lincoln in War
  2. Emancipation Proclamation: freed slaves held in Confederate States. No real freedom. Changed focus of war
  3. Jefferson Davis: President of Confederacy from Mississippi
  1. Ulysses S. Grant:Commander of US forces in Civil War
  1. Robert E. Lee:Commander of Confederate forces in Civil War
  1. William Tecumseh Sherman: Union general who destroyed Atlanta and scorched earth in March to the Sea
  2. Stonewall Jackson: Confederate General who had success at

Bull Run

  1. Fort Sumter: Union fort surrendered at beginning of Civil War giving Confederacy confidence
  2. Battle of Antietam: 1st major battle on northern soil. Neither side one deadliest 1 day battle. Lee retreated and led to Lincoln issuing Emancipation Proclamation
  3. Battle of Gettysburg: Confederates attacked on northern soil with hope victory would bring in European support- lost deadliest battle of war over 3 days
  4. Siege of Vicksburg: Grant’s 7 week siege to achieve major Union goal of control of Miss. River to split Confederacy
  5. Battle of Atlanta: Sherman took vital manufacturing and transportation hub to disrupt Confed. ability to resupply
  6. Gettysburg Address: helped raise spirits of Notherners to keep fighting and US was an indivisible nation
  7. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: urged not to seek revenge on slaveholders instead urged reconstruction of South
  8. Presidential Reconstruction: Lincoln’s plan to readmit southern states quickly but opposed by Congress
  9. Radical Republican Reconstruction: Congress forced southern states to reapply for admission & give rights to slaves
  10. 13th Amendment: abolished slavery
  1. 14th Amendment: gave African Americans citizenship
  1. 15th Amendment: gave African Americans right to vote
  1. Morehouse College: African American college opened in Atlanta in 1867
  2. Freedmen’s Bureau:help African Americans make transition to freedom
  3. Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment: Radical Republicans impeached Johnson for ignoring laws passed by Congress but they failed by 1 vote to convict him
  4. Black Codes: slave states passed laws to control lives of freed slaves depriving voting rights and taking advantage of workers
  5. KKK:secret society in the South using threatening actions to control African American and keep them from voting
  6. 1876 Presidential Election: Hayes vs Tilden was disputed which led to Compromise of 1877
  7. Compromise of 1877: Hayes became President and in return Union soldiers left South to reclaim state govt. leaving freed slaves unprotected and strengthened segregation
  8. Carpetbaggers: northerners who traveled south to help former slaves and make money during Reconstruction
  9. Scalawags:Southerners who cooperated with African Americans and Carpetbaggers to benefit in Reconstruction