Unit 7 Key Terms Quiz
On a separate sheet of paper, identify the following terms.
1. Confederate general who won many battles
despite being outnumbered but lost key battles
at Antietam and Gettysburg
2. Poor farmers, often ex-slaves, who paid to rent
land by giving the land owners most of their
crops
3. Union general whose aggression won many
battles, later became president
4. This law gave all races (such as black exslaves) the right to vote
5. Term for northerners who moved south during
Reconstruction to help Republicans, but many
ended up exploiting the South for personal
gain
6. President who was impeached by Radical
Republicans largely because of his opposition
to their plan for Reconstruction
7. This law defined blacks as citizens that were
entitled to equal protection under the law
8. Action of Radical Republicans that used the
military to control the South during
Reconstruction and force southern states to
give blacks equal rights
9. Term for southerners who helped
carpetbaggers during Reconstruction and were
often seen as traitors to the South
10. Turning point battle that caused Lincoln to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation and
ended chances of England helping the
Confederacy
11. This document by Lincoln said that slaves in
rebelling states were free
12. Group in Congress that wanted Reconstruction
to involve military occupation of the South
and full rights for black ex-slaves
13. Underground organization that formed during
Reconstruction to resist northern influence
through terrorism
14. Event in which Rutherford Hayes became
president in exchange for ending
Reconstruction
15. First official battle of the Civil War, which
resulted in a surprise Confederate victory and
showed the Civil War would be long and
bloody
16. Famous African-American regiment that
fought for the Union army after emancipation
17. Turning point event in the Civil War that
secured the Mississippi River for the Union
and divided the Confederacy
18. Laws passed in southern states during
Reconstruction to restrict the rights of black
ex-slaves
19. Event in which a Union general used “total
war” to destroy southern property and divide
the Confederacy
20. This law banned slavery in the entire United
States
21. Time period in which the federal government
brought the South back into the Union and
tried to rebuild the South
22. Turning point battle that turned back a
Confederate invasion of the North and was the
biggest battle of the Civil War
23. Term that described post-Civil War
industrialization of the South but continued
oppression of black southerners
24. Strategy of the Union to win the war by using
the navy to cut off trade along the Confederate
coast and Mississippi River
25. Government agency that was meant to give
poor ex-slaves (and whites) education, food,
clothing, and help them find work during
Reconstruction
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Reconstruction
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Antietam
54th Massachusetts
Andrew Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
Military Reconstruction
15th Amendment
Carpetbaggers
Radical Republicans
Black codes
14th Amendment
Scalawags
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea
13th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Sharecroppers
Anaconda Plan
Battle of Bull Run
Siege of Vicksburg
Ku Klux Klan
Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877
“New South”
Ulysses S. Grant