Vocabulary Conflicts Leading Up to the Civil War The Civil War After the Civil War Ended 100

What is a free state?

A state is which slavery was not allowed.

What is an abolitionist?

An abolitionist was is someone who wanted to end slavery.

What does reconstruction mean?

Reconstruction means to rebuild.

What is segregation? (Answer must include two examples.)

Segregation is the practice of keeping people apart based on their race or culture.

What is an amendment?

An amendment is a change to the Constitution.

What is a slave state?

A slave state is a state in which slavery is allowed by law.

What word means to withdraw?

Secede

What is a blockade?

A blockade is an area that is cut off to keep people or supplies from going in or out.

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau and who benefited from it?

The Freedman’s Bureau was a government group that was created to help freed African Americans find food, clothing, and an education.

What is a sharecropper? Explain the different between a sharecropper and a slave.

A sharecropper is a person who rents land, farms it, and pay the landowner with part of the crops grown.

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

Explain what the Underground Railroad was.

The Underground Railroad was a series of homes/routes that slaves stayed at when they were trying to escape to the North.

Explain what the North and South were disagreeing over involving taxes.

The North wanted the Southerners to pay high taxes on imported goods. They were hoping this would force the Southerners to buy the goods they were producing. The Southerners wanted no taxes on imported items because they wanted to ship goods in and out and trade with Great Britain. They didn’t think the Northerners should dictate where they bought manufactured goods from.

Explain how and why the Confederacy formed.

The Confederacy formed when many Southern states seceded from the Union. They seceded, elected their own president, and began to make their own rules/laws because they were very unhappy with the Union and President Lincoln for outlawing slavery and raising taxes on imported goods.

Explain how the economies and cities were different in the North than in the South.

North: The economy in the North was based on manufacturing goods. They had very large cities and more people. Most people worked in factories. The North also had very developed transportation systems. South: The economy in the South was based largely on farming. Most of the farms were very large and they grew cash crops. They had very few large cities and the transportation systems in the South were not developed at all. No transportation made the transporting of goods from one place to another very difficult.

What were the dates of the Civil War?

Explain what an ironclad ship was and how was this helpful during fighting? Please give us the name of one of the ironclad ships mentioned in the book.

An ironclad ship was a wooden ship that was covered with iron slabs in many places. This prevented cannons from setting fire to the ships, and it also caused any bullets/gunfire to ricochet off. They were much safer during battle. Two of the ironclad ships were: the Monitor, the Merrimack, or the CSS Neuse

How many North Carolinians fought for the Union and how many fought for the Confederacy during the war? (Don’t forget to mention how many were slaves.)

Confederate soldiers from N.C.: 120,000 Union soldiers from N.C.: 15, 000 Of the 15,000 Union soliders from N.C., approximately 5,000 were enslaved African Americans.

What was the largest Civil War battle in North Carolina? What was so significant about it?

The Battle at Bentonville was the largest Civil War battle in N.C. It was so significant because General Johnston and the Confederate soldiers had a surprise attack on the Union soldiers and Sherman.

Name several problems fugitive slaves faced while traveling on the Underground Railroad.

Risk of being caught by slave hunter~ physical punishment Sickness Elements of nature~ freezing, heatstroke Poisonous snakes Wild animals Starvation

What happened during the reconstruction period?

The Southern states had to rebuild their government and towns that were destroyed during the war.

What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Who wrote it and when was it signed?

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed in 1863 by President Lincoln, was a document that freed the enslaved people in the Southern states.

What was life like for freed African Americans after the Civil War ended? (Be specific.)

Life after the Civil War was over was very, very harsh for the African Americans. They had no education, which meant they could not get decent jobs. They had no money, which meant they could not buy land or move. They had no clothing and barely enough food to support their families.

Explain what the Thirteenth Amendment stated.

Thirteenth Amendment: Outlawed slavery

Explain two things the Southerners did after the Civil War in an attempt to still have control and more power than the African Americans.

1.Black Codes-- This set of rules took away all rights that the African Americans had. (Right to vote, own land, get an education, etc.) 2.Segregation-- This was the practice of keeping people keeping apart based on race and culture.