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13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Freed slaves
Gave African Americans
citizenship and due
process
15th Amendment
Gave African Americans
the right to vote
abolitionist
a person who wants to
end slavery
Abraham Lincoln
-President of the Union, Republican Party
-Wanted to preserve the union (keep the
country together)
-Elected in 1860
-1st and 2nd Inaugural Address, Gettysburg
Address, Emancipation Proclamation
admit
Andrew Johnson
Antietam
Appomattox Courthouse
Black Codes
to add
16th President of the United
States. Wanted to admit the
southern states back into the
Union quickly and with little
punishment.
-September 17, 1862
-Bloodiest single day in American history
-Stopped Confederate invade into Union
territory
-Caused the release of the Emancipation
Proclamation
-General Robert E. Lee
surrenders to General Ulysses S.
Grant
-The Civil War is officially over,
the Union has won
System of laws that were
created by many southern
states to keep African
Americans from having equal
rights.
Carpetbaggers
Dawes Act
Emancipation
Proclamation
Freedmen's Bureau
Ft. sumter
Northerners who moved
to the south during
reconstruction to help
aid African Americans.
Divided land on Indian
Reservations into
individual plots of land.
-January 1, 1863
-Released as a result the battle of
Antietam
-Document written by Abraham Lincoln
-Released all slaves in rebellion states
-Made the war about ending slavery
Created by Congress in
1865 to help freed slaves
and poor whites in the
south get their rights.
-April 12, 1861
-Confederates attack a
Union fort in South Carolina
-1st battle of the Civil War
General George Meade
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Homestead Act
-Union general in the battle of
Gettysburg
-Famously known for his excellent
military tactics and winning a major
battle in the Civil War
-July 1-3, 1863
-Robert E. Lee invades Union territory in
Pennsylvania
-Three day long battle
-Infamous suicide mission for Confederates
known as "Pickett's Charge"
-Turning point of the Civil War
-Speech given by Abraham Lincoln
at the burial for the soldiers at
Gettysburg
-Famous speech about the Civil War
being a test of the ability of our
Government and country to survive
First African American man
to be elected into the U.S.
Senate. Representative from
Mississippi.
Law signed by Abraham Lincoln
in 1862 granting 160 acres of
land to citizens for a small fee.
Encouraged westward
expansion.
Jefferson Davis
Jim Crow Laws
Ku Klux Klan
Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln's "Ten-Percent
Plan"
-President of the Confederacy
-Believed in the idea of States'
Rights (states have the power
to decide their own rules)
Set of laws passed in the
south to segregate (or
separate) whites and
blacks.
Group of white
supremacists who used
violence as a scare tactic to
oppress African Americans.
-April 14, 1865
-John Wilkes Booth assassinates
Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater
-This changes the course of the
Reconstruction process
-Lincoln did not want to punish the
south
-This plan required only 10% of a
states' voters to take an oath of
allegiance to the United States
March to the Sea
Morrill Act
Phillip Bazaar
Radical Republicans
Robert E. Lee
-The Civil War has continued to drag on, the
South refuses to surrender
-William Tecumseh Sherman leads his troops
from Savannah Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean
burning everything in a mile wide path
-This tactic of total warfare severely hurts the
South
Act of Congress allotting
free government land to
the creation of colleges for
agriculture and mechanics
-Immigrant from Chile (South
America) who fought for the
Union
-Received the Medal of Honor
for his bravery
group of people in Congress who
wanted to punish the south for
seceding and wanted African
Americans to have equal rights as
all citizens
-Commander of the Confederate
Army
-Was also a general in the War of
1812
-Strong Virginian who believed in
States' Rights
Scalawags
Southern whites who
supported reconstruction
and the Radical
Republicans.
seceded
to leave or formally
withdraw
Sectionalism
loyalty to one region of
the country
Sharecropping
states' rights
An economic system of
work that paid workers with
food and shelter, basically
the same thing as slavery.
the ability of the states to
have more power than
the federal government
Thomas "Stonewall"
Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
Vicksburg
William Carney
William Tecumseh
Shermane
-Confederate general in the battle
of 1st Bull Run (also called 1st
Manassas)
-Given the nickname "Stonewall"
for his intense fierceness in battle
-President of the Confederacy
-Believed in the idea of States' Rights
(states have the power to decide their
own rules)
-Commander of the Union Army
-Becomes 17th president of the United
States
-July 4, 1863
-Union army, led by General Grant gains
control of the Mississippi river
-Completes the Anaconda plan and splits the
Confederacy in half
-Cuts off supplies, food, and communication
-African American soldier
for the Union
-Received the Medal of
Honor for his bravery
-Union general who led the
March to the Sea
-Used total warfare tactics to
cripple the south into surrender