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13th Amendment: a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery
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14th Amendment: a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians
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15th Amendment: (1870) gave African American men the right to vote
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180,000
40,000: __________ African-Americans will serve in the Union Army—________ will die
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600,000: How many people will die in the war?
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Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth
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Andrew Johnson: was the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869). As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial Reconstruction era of the United States
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Appomattox Courthouse: April 9th, 1865 Lee surrenders at_______ ______ sherman and grants armies against General Lee, he realizes he wont be able to win. Grants terms were nice, "you put down your guns and go back to farming", southerners are the countrymen again. War is over
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battlefield nurses; there we not any all-women regiments: What was the role of women in the war?
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Black Codes: These gave freedmen certain rights, but their intent was to keep the former slaves in a dependent position and give planters a supply of cheap labor. They varied from state to state.
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Carpetbagger: name given by Southern critics to Southerners allied with northern Republicans who came south to take part in the region's political and economic rebirth; given this name because it was claimed they could carry everything they owned in a carpetbag, a type of cheap suitcase made from carpet
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Chancellorsville: Civil War battle that was one of the Confederate army's major victories; nearly 17,000 Union soldiers and 13,000 Confederate soldiers were killed, including Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
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Charles Sumner: was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, he was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, working to punish the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the Freedmen.
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Chattanooga: Sept. 1863- the end of '63. It's a railroad transportation center in Tennessee, viral to the confederacy. Grant defeats Confederate Braxton Bragg- opens the deep south to an invasion which will be Sherman's march to the sea.
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Civil Rights act of 1866: This bill gave African Americans citizenship and guaranteed them the same legal rights as white Americans
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Clara Barton: later began the American Red Cross, cared for the wounded on the battlefield.
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Copperheads: In 1863 the Union began to draft soldiers, causing riots across the North. The unrest added to an antiwar movement led by some Democrats in Congress and state legislatures. Their supporters called them Peace Democrats, but critics compared them to poisonous snakes, calling them ________
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Edwin Stanton: U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War. He was removed by President Andrew Johnson; also an ally of congressional Republicans
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Election of 1876: When did reconstruction end?
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Emancipation Proclamation: (1862) an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
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Epidemics of mumps, measles, and smallpox swept through army camps. Caused by poor sanitation and polluted water.: What were the main causes of death?
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Freedman's Bureau: organization created by Congress in 1865 to help former slaves and poor whites in the South
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George Meade: The union general at Gettysburg, he fought against Lee, in a three day battle with which Lee retreated
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George Pickett: American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous charge at Gettysburg
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Gettysburg: a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates
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Goerge McClellan: Lincoln (Rep.) runs with Andrew Johnson ( a Tennessee Democrat) -vs- __________(2nd battle of bull run, replaced by lincoln twice)
•Ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election
•Wanted to attack the Confederate capital at Richmond
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John Wilkes Booth: United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln
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Joseph Hooker: the union general at chancellorsville, fought against Lee and lost.
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KKK: a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
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Lincoln's 10% plan: His plan is really easy on the south, everyone gets amnesty (blank slate), people cant run for office but they're free. When 10% of your people vote again you can vote for a government and join the union.
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McClellan vs. Lincoln
The emancipation proclamation and the mounting casualties from Grant's campaign made the war highly unpopular in the North and Lincoln expected to lose the election: election of 1864. Candidates? What happened?
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Monitor and Merrimack: two American warships that fought the first engagement between ironclad ships
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North South: both the _____ and the _____ used the draft
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Robert E. Lee: Confederate general; He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg, and he surrendered to the Union's Commander General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
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Rutherford B. Hayes: 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period
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Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden
Hayes won, ended reconstrucion and had 14th and 15th amendmens: Election of 1876. Candidates? what happened? Who won?
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Scalawag: meaning scoundrel; name given by former Confederates to those southerners who supported the shift in power to Congress and the army in the South during Reconstruction
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Share Cropping: a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
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Sherman: _________forces Atlanta to surrender- He gives Lincoln a victory right before the election, they capture Atlanta.
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Sherman's March to the Sea (Union Victory: Soldiers slaughtered livestock, crops, & looted homes & businesses because they wanted to strike the enemies economic resources. Whos victory?
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Tenant Farming: system of farming where farmers rented their land from the landowner, and were allowed to grow whatever crop they chose
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Thaddeus Stephens: of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
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To get scarce goods for the southerners. Yes it worked, they brought medicine, and other supplies for the soldiers: What was the purpose of the Union Blockade? Did it work?
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to take the Miss. River and cut the South in two: What was the North's strategy?
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U.S Grant: •Civil War hero; Republicans nominated him as their presidential candidate in the election of 1868. he won
•Eighteenth president of the United States; in charge of all Union forces. He accepted General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.
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Vicksburg: Grant was carrying on a siege of this town, a Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi. He aimed to starve its residents and defenders into surrender. For weeks, Union artillery and gunboats shelled the city. On July 4, as Lee began his retreat from Gettysburg, the Confederates at _____ surrendered.
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Wade Davis Bill: Congress' Reconstruction plan. It required a majority of a state's white male citizens to pledge loyalty to the Union before elections could be held. Lincoln killed the Bill with a pocket veto—that is, by ignoring the bill for 10 days.
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William T. Sherman: Union general, American soldier, businessman, educator and author.
