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Unit 4: The Nation Tested
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1.
13th
Amendment
5.
Andrew
Johnson
Amendment that abolished slavery
2.
14th
Amendment
17th president of the United States, came to
office after Lincoln's assassination and opposed
Radical Republicans; he was impeached
6.
Antietam
Amendment which declared that all persons
born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed
equal protection of the laws
3.
15th
Amendment
the first major battle in the American Civil War
to take place on Northern soil. It was the
bloodiest single-day battle in American history,
with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for
the North, Lincoln announced the
Emancipation Proclamation
7.
Appomattox
Amendment which prohibits the denial of the
right to vote based on race, color, or previous
condition of servitude
4.
Abraham
Lincoln
Famous as the site of the surrender of the
Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to
Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
8.
16th President of the United States; saved the
Union during the Civil War and emancipated
the slaves
black codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed
slaves; passed by southern states following the
Civil War
9.
blockade
13.
emancipate
An action taken during wartime to isolate an
enemy and cut off its supplies
10.
carpetbaggers
To set free
14.
Freedmen's
Bureau
15.
Ft. Sumter
an agency established by Congress at the end of the
Civil War to help and protect newly freed black
Americans
Northern Republicans that rushed south
during Reconstruction to advantage/make
money from the unstable financial and social
conditions there
11.
Confederate
States of
America
Union fort attacked by Confederates in 1861
sparking the start of the Civil War
16.
gerrymandering
17.
Gettysburg
Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts in
bizarre or unusual shapes to favor one party
A republic formed in February of 1861 and
composed of the eleven Southern states that
seceded from the United States
12.
Credit
Mobilier
Affair
scandal during the 1870s when a railroad
construction company involved in the
construction of the transcontinental railroad
misused public funds and bribed
Congressmen with stock to cover it up
1863 battle during which General Lee led the
Confederate troops into Pennsylvania; Union victory
was the most significant turning point of the Civil
War; deadliest battle of the Civil War
18.
Gettysburg
Address
22.
Ku Klux Klan
A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the
American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the
dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle
23. Radical
of Gettysburg
Republicans
19.
grandfather
clause
20.
Jefferson
Davis
law that excused a voter from literacy tests and poll taxes
if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on
January 1, 1867; kept many freedmen from voting
24.
Reconstruction
25.
Robert E. Lee
A secret society created by white
southerners in 1866 that used terror and
violence to keep African Americans from
obtaining their civil rights
Group of Congressmen who, strictly
identifying the Civil War with the abolitionist
cause, sought swift emancipation of the
slaves, punishment of the rebels, and tight
controls over the former Confederate states
after the war
The period in United States history
immediately following the Civil War in which
the federal government set the conditions
that would allow the former Confederate
states back into the Union
President of the Confederate States of America
21.
Jim Crow
Laws
Commander of the Confederate army
26.
scalawags
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from
whites in the South
A derogatory term for white Southerners
who supported Reconstruction following
the Civil War
27.
scorched
earth
policy
32.
a military strategy of burning or destroying
buildings, crops, or other resources that might be
of use to an invading enemy force
28.
secession
Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a
nation
29.
segregation
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or
other differences
30.
Solid South
31.
Ulysses S.
Grant
Term applied to the one-party (Democrat) system
of the South following the Civil War. For 100 years
after the Civil War, the South voted Democrat in
every presidential election
Commander of Union forces; 18th President of the
United States
Vicksburg
Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
that surrendered to Union forces in 1863