Vocabulary 1
An official announcement
Proclamation
setting free
Emancipation
What did the Emancipation Proclamation succeed in doing?
Freeing enslaved people in the confederacy
The Union had two large victories at __________________ and _________________
Gettysburg, Vicksburg
During Reconstruction these laws were passed and were not fair to African Americans
black codes
The day enslaved African Americans in Texas learned that they were free
Juneteenth
a military blockade designed to make a city surrender
siege
Soldiers food was not ___________ and many died of ______________ and ________________.
fresh, infection, disease
Because Grant wanted the country to unite, what did he not do.
take confederate soldiers prisoners
Policies from the Reconstruction period were ________ in the south than what the President had wanted it to be.
harsher
method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian and military targets to force a surrender
total war
murdered for political reasons
assassinated
What invention changed the way people saw the Civil War?
Photography/camera
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Who became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
the period after the Civil War when laws were passed in order to rebuild and heal the northern and southern parts of the US
Reconstruction
change or addition to something
Amendment
Clara Barton founded this organization
American Red Cross
Why did the Union want a win at Vicksburg
control the Mississippi
This system was tried in the South. People would "rent" land to farm on it. It did not work well.
sharecropping
Bringing charges against an elected official
impeachment
Northerners who went to the south after the Civil War to start businesses and make money
Carpetbaggers
Juneteenth is on what day?
June 19th
What Union general believed in total war?
General Sherman
What did the 13th Amendment do?
End/Abolish slavery