| Term | Definition |
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| Jefferson Davis | Served as president of the Confederate States of America during the civil war. |
| Robert E. Lee | Most famous Southern General who lead the south to many victories in the Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | The 16th President of the United States. Led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War. |
| Salmon P Chase | American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | The first official, black regiment in U.S. History. |
| Ulysses S Grant | Was the General in Chief for the Union army during the Civil War. |
| William T. Sherman | Originator of the "scorched earth" policy and succeeded Grant as Union commander |
| John Wilikes Booth | American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865 |
| Andrew Johnson | the 17th President of the United States; first president to be empeached. |
| Carpetbaggers | People who moved to the South after the Civil War to influence politics and make money quickly. |
| Scalawags | was a moniker for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War. |
| Sharecroppers | People who farmed on other people's land in exchange for some of the profit, Freedman's Bureau made their laws |
| the Whiskey Ring | a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret domestic militant organizations, known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th President of the U.S. who was only elected by one more vote in the electoral college. |
| the Crittenden Plan | was an unsuccessful proposal to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 |
| Fort Sumter, SC | Sight of the first battle of the Civil War |
| Bull Run | the first major land battle of the American Civil War |
| Antietam | 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. |
| US Sanitary Commission | The agency that was founded by Lincoln that allowed for women to aid in the Civil War effort. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln, freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states. |
| Battle of Vicksburg | battle where General Grant forced confederates to surrender after a long siege |
| Battle of Gettysburg | the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War |
| scorched earth campaign | U.S. attacks into the countryside where entire villages were burned and destroyed. |
| 13th Amendment | This ended slavery. |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | Sherman's troops left the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah. |
| Appomatox Court House | The site of Robert E. Lee's surrender |
| Black Codes | laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to limit the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. |
| Joint Committee on Reconstruction | United States Congressional joint committee that played a major role in Reconstruction. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | A group of free black men who got together with the government to divy up land for the newly freed slaves. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | a piece of United States legislation that gave further rights to the freed slaves after the end of the American Civil War. |
| 14th Amendment | amendment that stated all citizens, including blacks, had rights |
| Radical Republicans | demanded harsh policies toward slavery and the Confederacy during the war, and toward ex-Confederates after the war, as well as support for equal rights for Freedmen |
| impeachment of Johnson | ne of the most dramatic events in the political life of the United States during Reconstruction |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | The series of legislation that provided for a way for the government to "clean up" after the Civil War in the South. |
| 15th Amendment | prohibits the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color or previous condition of servitude" |
| Election of 1877 | Election that effectively ended the reconstruction with the Compromise in which the republican became president |
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