People
A fugitive slave who guided hundreds of slaves to safety
Harriet Tubman
A military manouver to block and prevent something
Blockade
Laws created in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the new rights of African Americans
Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
An important speech recognized as a statement on American values and goals
Gettysburg Address
A fee required to vote
Poll tax
A slave who sued for their freedom
Dred Scott
Battle that began the Civil War. Confederate soldiers fired on an unarmed supply ship.
Fort Sumter
Required that 50% of a rebelling states population must swear loyalty to the Union
Wade-Davis Bill
A military decree freeing all enslaved people in states rebelling agaisnt the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
A loosely organized network of routes for slaves to pass freely
The Underground Railroad
Union general turned US President
Ulysses S. Grant
A military tactic to cut an opponent off of their supplies and bombared them until they surrender
A siege
An arrangement where a landowner allows someone to farm their land in return for a portion of the crop
Sharecropping
Granted citizenship to those born in the US and equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
Citizens must help apprehend fugitive slaves and can be imporisoned for helping slaves run away
Fugitive Slave Act
Thomas Jackson earned this nickname by leading a stand against the Union
Stonewall Jackson
The Confederate State of America did what when they left the Union?
Secede
After a controversial election, Hayes became president and in return Union troops were removed from the South and a few Southerners were appointed high positions due to what
Compromise of 1877
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
13th Amendment
One of the many organizations that was created to help provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education to those recently freed and poor refugess from the south
Freedmans Bureau
Famous African American leader that called for African Americans to "pull themselves up from their own bootstraps"
Booker T. Washington
Mandate that African American soldiers must be allowed into the miltary
Militia Act
Who's plan returned people's property if they pledged loyalty to the U.S.?
Andrew Johnson
Forbid states from denying people their vote based on race, color, or previously being enslaved
15th Amendment
An act that gave money to the establishment of universities that taught agriculture and mechanical arts.
Land Grant College Act