People of the Civil War and Reconstruction
•Union General
•The March to the Sea (destroyed everything).
William T. Sherman
•16th president.
•Union leader.
•Freed slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
•Marks the beginning of the Civil War.
•South took the Fort.
Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter, 1861
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Thirteenth Amendment
a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
Sharecropping
•Abraham Lincoln’s vice President.
•17th President.
Andrew Johnson
•Confederate General.
•Best General at this time.
Robert E. Lee
•Bloodiest battle on US soil until then.
•South won.
First Battle of Bull Run, 1861
•grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., protects their rights and privileges, and ensures equal protection under the law.
Fourteenth Amendment
a traveler who attempts to profit from his new surroundings, often against the will or consent of the original inhabitants.
Carpetbaggers
•Commanding General and 18th president.
Ulysses S. Grant
•President Lincoln’s Secretary of War.
Edwin Stanton
•Part of the Union's campaign to gain control of the Mississippi River.
North wins.
Battle of Vicksburg, 1863
•prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Fifteenth Amendment
•made up the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures and thought that whites should recognize Blacks’ civil and political rights while still retaining control of political and economic life.
Scalawags
•Advocate for the abolition of slavery.
•Pushed for racial equality.
Charles Sumner
•Radical Republican in the House Of Representatives.
Thaddeus Stevens
•Turning point for the North.
•North Wins.
Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
•a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
Freeman’s Bureau established, 1865
•Phrase for the south and its reliance on cotton.
King Cotton
a Senator for the state of Mississippi and served his full six years.
Blanche K. Bruce
•the first African American to serve in Congress, but he did not serve a full six-year Senate term.
Hiram Revels
•The end to the Civil War, where the South surrenders.
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House, 1865
•Discriminatory laws enacted in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War.
Black Codes
•Citizens who opposed the war policy
Copperheads