Exam 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Throughout 1861, both Southern and Northern leaders attempted to keep the issue of slavery out of the war.

In 1863 peace candidates in the Confederacy

The issue of ____________________ was very devisive in the North.

Black Union soldiers were murdered as they tried to surrender at ____________________.

Bounty jumpers were men who

In the end, Copperheads wanted

The North instituted conscription before the South.

Jefferson Davis experienced little public criticism in the South.

____________________ was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864.

The Morrill Land-Grant College Act

In 1862, Lincoln relied on force to keep the border states in line.

Those Northerners who favored peace with the South at almost any cost were referred to as ____________________.

Lincoln supported the order of Major General John C. Fremont freeing the slaves of all Confederate sympathizers in Missouri.

The most celebrated black regiment in the Union army was the

Describe the reasons for, and the general reaction to, the enlistment of black troops into the Union armies.

The Thirteenth Amendment

The peace terms that Ulysses S. Grant dictated to Robert E. Lee at Appomattox were usually harsh.

The Battle of Antietam was referred to as ____________________ by the Confederates.

General McClellan was known for being

The ____________________ Act granted a farmer 160 acres of land after he had lived on it for five years.