Civil War Vocabulary
The legal right protecting people from being jailed without being charged or brought before a court - Lincoln suspended this right for rebels during the Civil War.
Habeas Corpus
Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes?
Who did the South believe would help them?
The British
This era was a time in which the United States needed to be reunited after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Leader of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Farmers who rented land from landowners and paid rent with cash or part of their crops.
Tenet Farmers
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle in which the North gained control the Mississippi River?
Battle of Vicksburg
the vision promoted by Southern leaders in the late 19th century to modernize the region's economy. I
The New South
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and women born or naturalized in the US.
What is a the 14th Amendment?
This was the largest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He was appointed President after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This government agency was created to assist former slaves with their new lives in America. They helped with education, jobs, medical treatment, legal assistance, etc.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
What is the term for forcing service in the military, also called a draft?
Conscription
This law canceled the Missouri Compromise and allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond, VA
Political agreement that resolved a disputed election and ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877
Bloodiest battle in American history?
Battle of Antietam
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment?
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The plan for reconstuction if Abraham Lincoln would have lived to see it through?
The 10% Plan
This Civil War Battle that convinced the remaining Southern States to secced.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumtner?