Vocabulary
the forced separation of races
What is segregation?
Year Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
What was 1863?
Became president after Lincoln was assassinated
Who was Andrew Johnson?
What was the North (or the Union)?
the Confederate attack on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
What was Pickett's Charge?
What is impeach?
What was 1862?
agency formed by Congress that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to the poor
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Continents connected by a telegraph cable laid in 1865
What are North America and Europe?
the Union plan to block Confederate ports and attack by land
What was the Anaconda Plan?
a strategy of destroying an enemy's resources
What is total war?
year the Tuskegee Institute opened
What was 1881?
was murdered in Ford's Theater
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
price of a pound of butter in 1864
What was $20?
spy for the Union army who send secret coded messages in empty egg shells
Who was Elizabeth Van Lew?
slave states that stayed in the Union
What were border states?
the year Clara Barton was asked to start the American Red Cross
What was 1881?
person who was impeached in 1868
Who was President Johnson?
three states covered by Sherman's route in the later battles in 1864-1865
What are Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina?
where Lee surrendered to Grant
What was Appomattox Court House?
firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period
What is a primary source?
the year gold was discovered in Australia
What is 1865?
Change to the Constitution that gave all men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
name of the place Confederate soldiers retreated during the Battle of Antietam
What was Sunken Road?
president of Tuskegee Institute in 1881
Who was Booker T. Washington?