History Midterm
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- What were Northern Republicans in the south referred as?
- Carpetbaggers
- Using the tactic of _______ in his "March to the Sea" Sherman's army devastated the south.
- total war
- South unionist were referred to as
- Scalewags
- Where were the terms of the Confederate surrender discussed and signed?
- the Appomatox courthouse
- Who killed President Lincoln at the Ford Theater in Washington, DC?
- Booth
- capital of the confederacy
- Richmond, Virginia
- What amendment declared that everyone born in the United States was a citizen with full rights?
- 14 amendment
- What established laws that freed blacks would have to live by?
- Black Codes
- The first of the segregation laws were the ____, first passed in Tennessee to seperate blacks and white in public transportation
- Jim Crop Law
- Along with literacy test, southern legislatures implemented ____________ to prevent Blacks from voting?
- Poll taxes
- What amendment abolished slavery in the Union?
- The 13 amendment
- What amendment declared that the right to vote could not be denied on race or color?
- 15 amendment
- Who ran against each other and in the 1876 election, which later led to the Compromise of 1877?
- Tilden and Hayes
- What prohibited discrimination by any public businesses, such as transportation facilities and hotels?
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- In response to the violence in the South, Blacks pressured Congress to pass the ___________ ?
- Enforcement Acts
- In what court case, did the supreme court upheld the segregation laws saying that "separate, but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment?
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- What General was the exceptional military leader of the South?
- General Lee
- What president won the election of 1868?
- Grant
- What was established in 1865 to help the millions of freed slaves left homeless from the war?
- Civil Rights Act of 1865
- the civil war began with the fall of
- Fort Sumter