Civil War
shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out
What is blockade?
The day tht General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is April 9, 1865?
Separation of people of different races.
What is segregation?
Bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official.
What is impeachment?
Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, that gave the right to vote to male citizens of all races.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Union victory over Confederate forces in the Civil War in 1862 that was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
What is Battle of Antietam
Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
Union victory over Confederate forces in 1863 near Gettysburg, PA, that marked a turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Union victory over Confederate forces in 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, that split the Confederacy in two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The killing of a high-ranking official or leader.
What is assasination?
Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Statement issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in Confederate states still at war with the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
System of farming in which farmers rented land and paid the landowner with a share of the crops they raised.
What is sharecropping?
Method of warfare used by Union General William Sherman in which both the opposing army and an enemy's civilian population are targets.
What is Total War?
Leader of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
First major battle of the Civil Ar, on July 16, 1861
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
Period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the Southern states rejoined the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
Famous Civil War speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, that said that no state could deny any citizen the equal protection of the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Leader of the Union army?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Law that requires men of a certain to serve in the military, if called.
What is the draft?
Amendment to the Constitution in 1865 that ended slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction establishing segregation of whites and blacks
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws passed by Southern state governments after the Civil War that denied African Americans many civil rights.
What are Black Codes?
The Union general who used total war in his "March to the Sea."
Who was William T. Sherman?