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| To withdraw from an organization or alliance |
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| A system for requiring citizens to join their country's armed force |
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The rights that the Constitution entitles all people to as citizens
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| The social seperation of groups of people especially by race |
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| White southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War |
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| Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political power |
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| African Americans who had been set free from slavery after the civil war. |
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| The period after the Civil War when the federal government ruled the southern states in order to rebulid them and allow them back into the Union |
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| A group of people only interested in their beliefs and not the whole country's |
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| Why did the South decide to secede and form the Confederate States of America |
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| They didn't agree with the government so the South seperated and made there own government |
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| What was the goal of the North |
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| To have the country come bck together |
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| States that sided with the North |
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| Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri |
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| States that sided with the South |
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| Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina |
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| Strengths and weaknesses of the Confederacy |
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Strengths- Fighting a defensive war, military leadership
Weaknesses- Economy, transportation problems, money was invested |
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| Strengths and weaknesses of the North |
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Strengths- Large population, 90% of manufacturing in North, more farms, 21,000 miles of railroads, more bank and wealth
Weaknesses- Military leadership |
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| CSA: President, capital, and commanding general |
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| Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Virginia, Robert E. Lee |
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| USA: President, capital, and last commanding general |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Washington D.C ,Ulysses S. Grant |
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| Fighting a defensive war, hold out and tire out the North, counted on European money and supplies |
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| Blockade southern ports, seize Mississippi River- cut Confederacy into 2, seize Richmond and capture Confederate headquarters |
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| Rifles, muskets, cannons, artillery |
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| African American soldiers during Massachussets 54th Regiment |
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| Under command of Colonel Robert Shaw, 1,000 African American soldiers, paid less than white soldiers, sent to South Carolina to take part of the attack on Fort Wagner |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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What was it: declared slaves in all Confederate states to be free
Who did it effect: slaves and the Confederacy |
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| Union and Confederate troops met on July 1st, 1863 west of Gettysburg for peace |
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| General Grant battled his way to Vicksburg with an army |
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| Total War and Shermans March to Atlanta |
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| `an organization established by Congress to assist former slaves |
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| secret society found in 1866, used fear brutality, and murder to overthrow local reformed minded governments |
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| To spell out the rights of freedmen, to help planters find workers, and to keep freedmen at the lowest part of society |
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| Hayes becomes president and promises to: appoint a Southern to his Cabinet, remove all remaining federal troops from the south |
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| Plessey was arrested for sitting in a railroad car reserved by Louisiana law for whites |
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| Laws passed in the South that legally required blacks to be seperated from whites |
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