People
Abraham Lincoln
Final Commander of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Republican
Amendment that outlawed slavery in the U.S.
13th
One role women played during the war
spy or soldier
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
First official African American unit formed in the Civil War
Massachusetts 54th
Act that established land grant colleges
Morrill Act
Amendment that gives citizenship to all those born in the U.S. and guarantees equal protection
14th Amendment
Price paid for substitute exemption in the Union Army
$300
He lobbied Lincoln to allow African Americans to enlist in the Union Army
Frederick Douglass
Turning point of the Civil War
the Battle of Gettysburg
General who ran against Abraham Lincoln in 1864
George McClellan
the Enrollment Act
Common shortage in the South during the war
Food shortages
He became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
General Winfield Scott's plan to defeat the Confederacy
the Anaconda Plan
Compromise that ended Reconstruction
the Compromise of 1877
Union General who unleashed the scorched earth method in the South with his March to the Sea
General William T. Sherman
Common circumstance of women after the war
widowhood
His election ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
Battle where the Union captured the Mississippi River
the Battle of Vicksburg
Nickname for southern Democrats who sought to reestablish the racial power structure of the Old South and opposed Reconstruction
Redeemers
Act that emancipated slaves under Union control
Second Confiscation Act
the Sanitary Commission