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shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.
What is blockade?
The killing of a high-ranking official or leader
What is assassination?
Law that requires men of a certain age to serve in the military, if called.
What is the draft?
Bringing charges of wrongdoing against an elected official.
What is impeachment?
Famous Civil War speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The day that General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant
What is April 9, 1865?
Separation of people of different races.
What is segregation?
Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction establishing segregation of whites and blacks.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Union victory over Confederate forces in 1863 near Gettysburg, PA, that marked a turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, that said that no state could deny any citizen the equal protection of the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Method of warfare used by Union General William Sherman in which both the opposing army and an enemy's civilian population are targets.
What is Total War?
First major battle of the Civil War, on July 16, 1861.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
Amendment to the Constitution in 1865 that ended slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, that gave the right to vote to male citizens of all races.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The general in charge of the Confederate forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the Southern states rejoined the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
Statement issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in the Confederate states still at war with the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The general in charge of the Union forces.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
System of farming in which farmers rented land and paid the landowner with a share of the crops they raised.
What is sharecropping?
Union victory over Confederate forces in the Civil War in 1862 that was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Laws passed by Southern state governments after the Civil War that denied African Americans many civil rights
What are Black Codes?
Union victory over Confederate forces in 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, that split the Confederacy in two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The general who used total war on his "March to the Sea."
Who was General William Sherman?