Vocabulary
People
Section 1 & Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
100
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
The 16th president that believed slavery was immoral and took office during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The major difference between the North and the South.
What is the South had slavery and the North did not?
100
The most decisive battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
100
Northerners who moved to the South after the war.
Who are carpetbaggers?
200
The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War.
What is reconstruction?
200
A southern synthesizer who killed Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Event that further divided the Northerners from the Southerners.
What is Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner?
200
Where the confederacy surrenders.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
200
Vigilante groups who wanted to destroy the republican party and prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Led a march to the sea during the Civil War creating a large path of destruction in the spring of 1864.
Who is William T. Sherman?
300
The line that divided slave states and free States
What is the Missouri Compromise Line?
300
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
300
Prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any US citizens.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
400
The formal withdraw of a state from a union.
What is secession?
400
A leading confederate general that drove McClellan away from Richmond.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
400
Ran against Abraham Lincoln in 1858 for senate and won.
Who is Steven Douglas?
400
Made the Civil War the first modern war.
What is hand grenades, ships, land mines, and rifles?
400
Established by congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education to former slaves and poor whites in the South.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
500
Drafting of citizens for military service.
What is consrciption?
500
The president of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
500
Tried to seize the federal arsenal and tried to start a slave uprising in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
500
One of the two remaining confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River; controlled water traffic.
What is Vicksburg?
500
President that was impeached because the radical republicans thought he was blocking reconstruction.
Who is John Andrew Johnson?
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