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US president during the period of Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This battle, a northern victory, is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This amendment permanently ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A system in which workers are bound in servitude until their debts are paid.
What is debt peonage?
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States near the end of Reconstruction.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Former Maryland slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This battle marked the bloodiest single-day in US military history, resulting in 23,000 casualties.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Southern reconstruction plan which specified southern states could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore allegiance to the Union.
What was Lincoln's 10% Plan?
Amendment that guaranteed all African Americans the right to vote in local, state, and federal elections.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Lowest point of relations between black/African-Americans and other Americans.
What was the Nadir?
Lincoln’s Vice President who became President upon his Lincoln's assassination.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Gen. Grant secured Union control of the Mississippi River with this northern victory.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
A law that made all former slaves U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
White American terrorist organization created to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence
What is the Ku Klux Klan (K.K.K.)?
A series of laws passed intended to settle disagreements between slave states and free states.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant near the end of the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Occurred in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, this battle marked the official start of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Document written by President Lincoln that declared all slaves in areas of resistance and rebellion free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Agricultural system meant to keep blacks in situations similar to slavery.
What is sharecropping?
Government agency responsible for administering reconstruction policies (e.g. food shelter, clothing, education, medicine) in southern governments.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Pioneer nurse that treated soldiers on the battlefield during the U.S. Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
This is the place of Robert E. Lee's official surrender of his Southern forces to Gen. Grant and the Union army.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
Southern reconstruction plan that specified southerns states could be readmitted into the Union once the majority of voters swore allegiance to the Union.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
State laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves.
What were the Black Codes?
Union strategy that ultimately defeated the Confederacy; It starved the Confederacy by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River.
What was the Anaconda Plan?