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- Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
- A plan for that imposed harsh standards on the Southern states and supported newly freed slaves (freedmen) in their pursuit of political, economic, and social opportunities.
- US government agency that was formed after the Civil War to help former slaves
- System in which freed slaves rented land and owned the crops they grew
- The plan for Reconstruction wanted to heal the nation and help the South recover as quickly as possible?
- Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg) was a
- From our readings and discussions, which area did the South have a clear advantage over the North in the Civil War?
- The Union strategy at the beginning of the Civil War was to fight a...
- The formal withdrawal of a state from the union is known as
- The Peninsula Campaign was a _________ for the Union.
- The small ships that were used to evade the Union blockade of Southern ports were called
- Battle of Chancellorsville cost the Confederacy the life of
- The Confederacy included the following states EXCEPT:
- A strategy of the Confederacy was to fight a...
- The primary economic activity of the South was...
- What British act passed a parliament declared that Americans had to provide housing, food, firewood, etc. to British soldiers stationed in the colonies?
- Who gave a Speech in which he declared, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
- Who rode throughout the American countryside warning colonists that the British regular army was coming?
- What did the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledge to each other?
- What date do we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence? It's the date the US became a Nation?