Legislation
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
13th
This was the 16th president of the United States. He was also the president during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The election of this president in 1860 led to many southern states leaving the United States to form their own country.
Abraham Lincoln
This was the name of the country the southern states created.
The Confederacy
This was the side of the United States that had to be reconstructed.
South
This amendment stated that African Americans were considered U.S. citizens.
14th
He was one of the most important generals of the Union during the Civil War. He replaced many generals who were not aggressive enough and would eventually become a president.
Ulysses S. Grant
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Fort Sumter
This was the name of the northern states.
Union
This was the president after Abraham Lincoln and during the beginning of Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
This amendment gave all men, regardless of race, the right to vote.
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
John Wilkes Booth
This is what you call states leaving the union to form their own country.
Secession
This was the capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond, VA
This was a system of farming/renting where someone would grow crops, not get paid, and have to share what they grew with the landowner.
Sharecropping
These laws were passed by southern states as a way to restrict African Americans more after slavery was abolished. (ex: African Americans could marry but only within race)
Black codes
This was a Confederate general who surrendered to the Union at Appomattox Courthouse.
Robert E. Lee
This was the north's plan to win the war. It included taking the southern capital, taking the Mississippi River, and a blockade of southern ports.
Anaconda Plan
This was the name of the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
These were northerners who moved south during Reconstruction. They got their name by the type of bag they were carry their belongings in.
Carpetbaggers
This legislation ended slavery in the Confederacy during the Civil War. It was passed by Abraham Lincoln.
Emancipation Proclamation
This was the doctor who fixed the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the assassination and was found guilty of helping a criminal. He was sentenced to life in prison but was later pardoned by President Johnson.
Dr. Samuel Mudd or Dr. Mudd
This was the main reason the Union joined into the war at the beginning.
To keep the country together
This side of the Civil War had more soldiers, factories, farms, and railroads.
North
This was a federal government program that sought to help African Americans by giving them medical care, food, clothing, and fuel to help them and their families.
Freedman's Bureau