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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