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- Why was Washington for us to change his mind and let the black Americans fight?
- what proved difficult for British soldiers to control?
- What is an example of the Dutch smugglers providing an alternative way?
- which colony does not have a delegate?
- after Massachusetts been declared in rebellion, what did most colonists want?
- Where are the black American Freeman banned from the continental army at first?
- What put strain on the British colonial relations?
- What did each colony start to develop all the water was still going on?
- How did King George the third respond to the Declaration of rights and grievances?
- The Confederate Army under the command of Robert E. Lee, beaten and exhausted from nearly constant fighting, was finally forced to surrender at in April 1865
- The "Border States" of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia had slaves and were part of the Confederacy
- Some Southerners were angered by the passage of the 15th Amendment during Reconstruction. These people made it a goal to
- October 16th, 1859, he led a group of 21 men into Harper's Ferry to seize weapons in hopes to arm slaves in the area to start a slave uprising. He was eventually caught, tried and hung for his actions.
- -The overall commander of much of the Confederate army during most of the Civil War.-Union general who destroyed Confederate resistance in Georgia and South Carolina during his famed "March to the Sea."-Union General who earned Lincoln's trust and fought the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia until they finally surrendered in April, 1865.-The first overall Union commander who was characterized by President Lincoln as having a "case of the slows." Later, this man would run against Lincoln in the 1864 election.
- President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was __________________ in comparison to the plan by the Radical Republicans' plan.
- Black codes adopted by Southern states immediately after the war provided for all of the following EXCEPT
- Sherman's campaign was part of the overall Anaconda Plan of the Union Army. Which of the following was NOT part of that plan
- What happened when President Johnson, in an effort to stop Radical Reconstruction, vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment?
- -citizenship to all freed Blacks and equal protection under the law-suffrage to Black males-abolished slavery
- The Compromise of 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction in the South. All the following were parts of the compromise EXCEPT: