Civil War Battles
First shots fired here - Civil War was on!
Fort Sumpter
Resisted black rights by using threats, murder and arson to intimidate
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Leader of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln’s speech; called for the South to rejoin the North peacefully - "With malace toward none and charity for all"
Second Inaugural Address
Outlawed Slavery in the US
13th amendment
Union victory that allowed North to gain control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
Carpet Baggers
President of the US/ North during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
War power used by Lincoln to hold Southern sympathizers during the war without taking them before a judge
Suspend habeas corpus
Defined citizenship to include anyone born in the US, except for Native Americans - provided equal protection under the law
14th amendment
Bloodiest day in the Civil War
Antietam
A plan to restore the Union in a way which would punish the South and require the 13-15th amendments to be passed before states could rejoin the Union
Radical Reconstruction
Leader of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
Lincoln’s speech that dedicated a battlefield cemetary and boosted morale in the North
Gettysburg Address
Granted the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of race or previous servitude (slavery)
15th amendment
The deadliest battle during the Civil War - lasted 3 days
Battle of Gettysburg
A lenient plan that would give amnesty to ex-Confederates and join Confederate states back to the Union quickly
Presidential Reconstruction
Union general who marched through Georgia in order to cripple the Confederacy’s economy.
William T. Sherman
Issued by Lincoln during the Civil War - Freed only the slaves in states that were in "rebellion" to the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
A government agency that helped freed slaves transition to life as free people
Freedman's Bureau
The final blow to the South with the burning of the major railroad hub and Northern soldiers destroying everything on their journey - (Came through here!)
Siege of Atlanta/Sherman's March to the Sea
A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
Scalawags
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln was assasinated by this person in this place
John Wilkes Boothe
Fords Theatre
Legislation that settled 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of South, and ended the Reconstruction Era
Compromise of 1877