North & South
What is the issue that the North and South disagreed most about?
Slavery
This happens when an army surrounds a place hoping to force the people there to surrender.
A siege
The U. S. Government plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War.
Reconstruction.
This is a change to the Constitution.
An amendment.
The President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Who was elected as President, which angered the South?
Abraham Lincoln.
What city protected the middle of the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg
The name given to freed slaves.
Freedmen
This means to give up.
Surrender
The General of the Union army
Ulysses S. Grant
11
This is a barrier that stops people from getting in or out of a place.
A blockade.
Disliked by Southerners because they wanted to make money off Reconstruction rather than actually help rebuild.
Carpetbaggers.
This means that enslaved people are being freed.
Emancipation
The General of the Confederate army
Robert E. Lee
What is another name for the United States?
The Union
How long did the Civil War last?
4 years
Name given to Southerners who wanted to help with Reconstruction.
Scalawags.
When landowners would rent their land to farmers and collect a portion of the crops the farmers grew as payment.
Sharecropping
Am African American man who was elected to the U. S. Senate from Mississippi during Reconstruction.
Hiram Revels or Blanche K. Bruce
What was the Confederacy?
The 11 states that seceded from the Union in favor of slavery.
What freed slaves in the Confederate states?
The Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment to the Constitution stated that slavery was illegal.
The 13th Amendment.
This is the act of rebuilding something that had been broken or torn down.
Reconstruction
An abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe