1. AHSGE Chapter 6
Civil War and Reconstruction
Decisive Battles of the Civil War
• First Battle of Bull Run – Humiliating ____________for the North
and almost led to a Confederate ________________of Washington,
D.C.
• Shiloh –_______________battle of Civil War. 20,000 total
causalities. No clear______________.
• CHUNK #1 Vicksburg
Page 73 Vicksburg History Frame – Answer the following questions
from the passage you have read.
Setting Where and When? -
Characters Who are the key players? –
Plot What happened? –
Outcome What were the results? –
• Antietam – Bloodiest _________day battle in the history of the
United States. After this Union_______________, Lincoln issued
the Emancipation Proclamation (document which _____________all
slaves in the Confederate States while maintaining slavery in the
______________states loyal to the Union.
• Vicksburg –____________victory. Union now had complete control of
the ____________________River.
• Gettysburg –____________day battle where the Union was
victorious. Considered the _____________ _____________ of
the war because the Confederacy no longer had the ability to launch
an _________________into Union territory.
• Gettysburg Address- speech given by Lincoln at ______________of
Union cemetery. He affirmed his belief in _______________and his
desire to see the union_________________.

2. • Atlanta – Union General _______________burned Atlanta to the
ground, destroying the ability of the Confederacy to
_______________the war effort.
• Sherman’s March – Sherman marched 60,000 _____________from
Chattanooga, TN through _______________to Savannah, GA
destroying everything in a 60 mile-wide___________. This act broke
the _______________of the Confederates.
• Surrender at Appomattox – Courthouse where General Robert E. Lee
________________his Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses
S. Grant _______________the Civil War.
Social and Political Changes during the Civil War
• Habeas Corpus –________________that a person could not be
_______________without appearing in____________. President
Lincoln declared ______________law in Maryland and suspended the
right of habeas corpus after Confederate _____________attacked
Union troops in_______________.
• Drafted – forced to ___________in the military. First time in
______________during the Civil War.
• Homestead Act – stated that anyone who would agree to
_______________ (farm) 160 acres of land for
_____________years would receive _____________to that land
from the government. This Act accelerated the
_______________of the West.
• Morrill Land Grant Act – Gave each state _____________of acres
of land. Each state had to use this land to fund at least one
public_______________.
• Emancipation Proclamation – see previous notes.
• 13th amendment – amendment added to the Constitution that
_________________slavery.

3. • CHUNK #2 Cost of War
Gist – Turn to page 76. Read Cost of War, and write two costs
the North and South had as a result of the Civil War.
North
South
Cost of the War
• North
• ________________rose due to the printing of money because the
cost of the war had grown to 1.3 ________________dollars.
• Union was_____________.
• Over 360,000 _______________soldiers died.
• South
• Lost war so slave-based ________________abolished.
• Over 258,000 _________________soldiers died.
• _______________was devastated.
Life for Emancipated Blacks
• “Freedmen” – _________________(freed) slaves.
• Problems
• Widespread ____________________(unable to read or write).
• Freed slaves had no _______________and owned no land.

4. • Few people could hire _______________and working for former
masters was like__________________.
• Freedman’s Bureau – Established to aid _____________and whites
by providing clothing, food and money to
__________________schools, provide medical care and provide
agents to find work for ________________slaves.
Different Plans for Reconstruction
• April 14, 1865 – President Lincoln ______________at Fords’
Theatre by John Wilkes_____________.
• Vice-President Andrew Jackson – new president for remainder of
Lincoln’s term. Was ____________to white Southerners and wanted
a mild form of ______________________that allowed whites to
maintain their power and keep blacks out of office.
• Black Codes – Before Congress could___________, the state
governments in the South passed a series of Black Codes. These
codes made blacks _______________-class citizens.
• Examples:
• Blacks could not own______________.
• _____________together after sundown.
• Marry_______________.
Radical Reconstruction
• 14th Amendment – all persons born or _________________in
United States are citizens (African Americans are now citizens of the
U.S.)
• Reconstruction Act
• All former ____________________states would be broken up into
five military_________________.

5. • Southern States would not be _________________until they
ratified the ______Amendment.
• Black male citizens must be ___________the right to vote.
• Former Confederate ____________could not hold
public__________.
A New Kind of Politics
• Hiram R. Revels – Black ____________from Mississippi who
replaced Jefferson Davis in the Senate.
• 15th amendment – guaranteed voting rights to all citizens
______________of race, color, or previous condition
of______________.
• CHUNK #3 Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Gist – Turn to page 82. Read Carpetbaggers and Scalawags, and
write one statement on each in the space provided that gives the
“gist” or summary of the selection.
Bitter Feeling in the South
• Carpetbaggers – people who came from the _____________to do
business in the South.
• Scalawag – Southerners who ______________Reconstruction
• Ku Klux Klan – organization which used ______________and violence
to intimidate blacks and other_______________.

6. Presidential Election of 1876
• Ulysses S. Grant was a strong military ____________but proved to
be a very ______________political leader. His presidency was
marked by________________.
Compromise of 1877
• In the __________of 1876, Samuel Tilden (D) and Rutherford B.
Hayes (R) ran.
• Due to some ____________votes in three states, Congress appointed
an _______________Commission to decide the election. Seven
Democrats, seven Republicans and one______________.
• Independent left and was replaced by a__________________.
• Commission decided the ______________belonged to Hayes (R) and
he was elected president.
• The Democrats were_____________.
• In order to keep the__________, Democrats said they would let
Hayes win the presidency if the Republicans would
______Reconstruction.
• This compromise is known as the _______________of 1877.
• Jim Crow Laws – In the____________, states passed laws requiring
blacks and whites to use ____________facilities in restaurants,
hospitals, schools etc. These laws imposed literacy tests and poll
taxes which prevented blacks from voting __________the 15th
amendment.