Alabama History Study Guide- Chapter 6



Alabama History Study Guide- Chapter 6

1. The Bourbon Redeemers were a group who wanted to bring back the pre-1868 Constitution and return to a government without African Americans.

2. The Freedman’s Bureau was formed to provide aid to people who had been enslaved.

3. Some Alabamians became sharecroppers after the war because many people had no money, land, or other property.

4. Alabama contributed soldiers, ships, and cannons to the Confederacy.

5. Josiah Gorgas helped the war effort by starting weapons factories in Alabama.

6. Enslaved African Americans supported the war effort by fighting in battles, delivering supplies, and building roads/railroads.

7. One way that American women contributed to the Civil War was by serving as nurses.

8. The Port of Mobile was important to the Confederacy because cotton was shipped from Mobile and traded for medicines and other goods.

9. All of the following were costs of the civil war in Alabama except the loss of land destroyed by floods.

10. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery throughout the country.

11. This event happened first: Alabama’s cities and towns were damaged during the Civil War.

12. African Americans changed during the Reconstruction because they were involved in the government.

13. People in the North and South disagreed about slavery and states’ rights.

14. This following statement is true: The economy depended on the labor of enslaved people.

15. Some Southern states wanted to secede from the Union to protect their right to have enslaved people.

16. The North and South disagreed about transportation development, tariffs, and slavery.

17. Robert Jemison, Jr. thought Alabama should secede only if other Southern states also seceded.

18. William Lowndes Yancey thought that at the secession convention that Alabama should leave the Union immediately.

19. Alabama invited representatives from other Southern states to a meeting in February 1861 to organize the confederacy.

20. Alabama delegates voted to secede because they did not want to end slavery.

DISCUSSION

1. What were the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment? Write one sentence about each.

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