Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 2. The turbulent era following the Civil War(1865-1877), was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.
  2. 6. Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War
  3. 8. The military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coast, and along the Mississippi, to strangulate the South by Union land and naval forces.
  4. 10. On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House signaling the end of the nation's Civil War.
  5. 11. An economy based on agricultural mass production of cash crops (cotton, tobacco, and rice) grown on large farms that used slave labor.
  6. 12. Steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides
  7. 14. A rebellion in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states (aka Yankees) loyal to the Union and southern states (aka Confederates) that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America
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  1. 1. Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. I.e the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had a racial prejudice against African Americans.
  2. 3. An agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
  3. 4. The controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
  4. 5. The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
  5. 7. President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  6. 9. A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
  7. 13. Crow Laws State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States