Secession
Seven states seceded from the Union after the election of this president in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln signed this order on January 1, 1863, declaring all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This Confederate General surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, effectively signaling the end of the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this vice president assumed power.
Andrew Johnson
This group of politicians criticized "Presidential Reconstruction" for not punishing Confederates and protecting African American rights
Radical Republicans
After this battle, four more southern states seceded from the Union.
Fort Sumter
Lincoln's initial order to free enslaved people did not originally include those held in bondage in these states that sat between the North and the South.
The Border States
This actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated Abraham Lincoln towards the end of the Civil War.
John Wilkes Booth
Reconstruction had three goals. 1) to reunify the country, 2) to secure the rights of freedmen, and this third goal.
3) remodel southern society
This Amendment to the US Constitution guranteed due process, equal protection under the law, and birthright citizenship.
Fourteenth Amendment
Blockading southern ports in order to prevent trade was a key aspect of this plan.
Anaconda Plan
The Navy
The strategy of destroying anything that could be of use to the enemy is often referred to as this.
Total war
Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction was called this because it required only a certain percentage of a state's population to agree to end slavery and pledge loyalty to the Union in order to rejoin the Union.
Ten-Percent Plan
This law divided the South into five military districts and required each state to create a new constitution with more protections for African Americans.
Military Reconstruction Act
The South believed that they could win support from international allies using this kind of diplomacy.
King Cotton Diplomacy
Prior to emancipation, enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were treated as this kind of property that held military value.
Contraband
The Union Army effectively controlled the Mississippi River after the siege of this city.
Vicksburg
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery except in this circumstance
As a form of criminal punishment
This Amendment declared that all men, regardless of race, could not be denied the right to vote.
15th Amendment
A major defeat for the North, the name of this "first" battle of the Civil War goes by two different names (provide both).
Battle of Manassas (South) and First Battle of Bull Run (North)
Lincoln's order to free enslaved people in Confederate-held territory would only work if this condition was met.
The Union winning the war
Finish the following quote by Abraham Lincoln: "With malice towards none..."
"...with charity for all"
These laws were passed early in Reconstruction as a way to restrict the rights and freedoms of previously enslaved African Americans in the South.
The Black Codes
This term refers to the end of Reconstruction through the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
The Compromise of 1877