The End of the Civil War
LT: I can explain how the Civil War ended p 524 and p 535
Timeline
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Gettysburg:
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Grant vs. Lee
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Sherman’s total war
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Surrender at Appomattox
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The Legacy of the Civil War: Reconstruction
LT: I can explain the impact the Civil War had on the United States pg 548 – 561
1. Explain what would be difficult about the South rejoining the Union.
2. This difficult time period of readmitting the South to the Union was known as ___________________________.
3. As we read about each topic – fill in the box with an explanation and further facts about the topic
Freedmen’s Bureau
Lincoln is murdered
Thirteenth Amendment
Black Codes
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
Poll Tax/Literacy Test
Grandfather clause
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy V Ferguson
Sharecropper
1. Summarize: After the Civil War and during Reconstruction what did the U.S. Government do to support
African Americans in the South?
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2. Summarize: Write down three difficulties that the African Americans faced in improving their lives in the
aftermath of the Civil War.
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