Vocabulary
Tactic (or plan) that the Union used to try and win the Civil War
Anaconda plan, blockade runners
Clara Barton founded this organization
Red Cross
This amendment gives all people who are born or naturalized in the US or US territories are US Citizens
14th amendment
What term was phrased for southern states beginning to pass laws to limit the rights of the newly freed African-Americans. they had to get work permits and go under apprenticeships with White landowners. **ITS A CODE WHAT TYPE**
Black Codes
A Runaway Slave who protested against states having slavery.
Fredrick Douglass
What was the compromise for the need of balanced free states and slave states?
Missouri Compromise
This document by Lincoln establishes that all slaves are free
Emancipation Proclamation
What are the first 10 amendments in the US Constitution called?
Nickname for white southerners who supported the Republicans during the Reconstruction
Scalawags
General for the South in the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
What was the BIG problem in the 1800s?
Slavery
First major battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
this amendment grants the Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Petition, and Assembly
1st Amendment
Nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War, but had no interest in government
Carpetbagger
General for the North in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
States that were pro-slavery were called ___________ states?
Confederate states
This speech by A. Lincoln was made to honor soldiers who died fighting in the Civil War in the name of liberation and Human Equality
Gettysburg Address
This amendment means that all men are able to vote
15th Amendment
This compromise ended the Reconstruction period, allowing Southern states to discriminate against freedmen again.
Compromise of 1877
The African American man who was enslaved and sued for his freedom.
Dred Scott
States that were anti-slavery were called what
the Union
The book that told the world about the treatment enslaved people endured in the South. It told the detailed truth
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This amendment freed enslaved people. The confederate states had to ratify this amendment in order to be reinstated into the Union
13th Amendment
This group terrorized African Americans because of their support for the Republican governments. They were burning down houses, churches, schools, and committed lynchings
Ku Klux Klan a.k.a KKK
Our 16th President
Abraham Lincoln