Vocab
The forced separation of blacks and whites in public places
Segregation
Became the 17th president of the US after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
Amendment that made slavery illegal in the United States
13th amendment
Freed enslaved people in the Confederate States, helped the North win the war
Emancipation Proclamation
The state where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought
Pennslyvania
The process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official
Impeachment
Leader of the Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Agency that provided relief for poor black and white people in the South
Freedmen's Bureau
Turning point in the Civil War, major Union victory
Gettysburg
Laws that greatly limited the freedoms of African Americans
Black Codes
Loyalty to one's region (North/South), rather than the Nation
Sectionalism
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln's Plan that offered Southerners an official pardon for all illegal acts that supported the rebellion
Ten Percent Plan
First shots of the Civil War were fired in this battle
Fort Sumter
Southern whites who opposed secession
Scalawags
A Northern white who went South to pursue a business or pursue political office
Carpetbaggers
Samuel J. Tilden
400,000 acres of land would be confiscated from wealthy planters and redistributed to newly free slaves
40 acres and a mule
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant here, effectively ending the Civil War
Appomattox Court House
Northern war strategy that focused on destroying Southern resources and morale
Total War
A group who wanted the federal government to be more involved during Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Union General who led the "March to the Sea", and created the policy of total war
William T. Sherman
Naval blockade of Southern ports to strangle trade during the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
Union campaign of total war through Georgia, destroyed all their resources
Sherman's March to the Sea
Poll taxes and literacy tests were designed to prevent what
African Americans from voting