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President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
Amendment that gave black men the right to vote.
15th
Branch of government that makes the laws.
Legislative
President of the United States at the start of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Wrote, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Plan to squeeze the South into Submission by cutting of all ports and Suffocating them.
The Anaconda Plan
Supreme Court case that ruled, "Separate but Equal".
Plessy v. Ferguson
Northerner who came to the South to rebuild. Often resented by many white Southerners.
Carpetbagger
Abolitionist who led slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Amendment that ended slavery
13th
The first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
Separates Maryland from Pennsylvania
Mason-Dixon Line
Those in Congress who opposed Lincoln and Johnson's plans for admitting the South back into the Union.
Radical Republicans
Ruled that blacks were not citizens, rather they were property.
Dred Scott Decision. (Scott v. Sanford)
The turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
White men who supported Reconstruction
Scalawag
What officially ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877.
Made it illegal for African Americans to travel freely, but was primarily used to keep them from voting utilizing Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests.
Black Codes
Attempt of Southern U.S. diplomats to purchase Cuba as a new slave state.
The Ostend Manifesto.
General Lee surrendered to General Grant a t
Appomattox Courthouse
The first African American to serve in Congress.
Hiram Rhoads Revels
Lowest point in American race relations.
Nadir
Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating the
Tenure of Office Act
View that local communities could still choose to ban slavery despite the Dred Scott decision.
The Freeport Doctrine.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln suspended _______________, which prevents the government in peacetime from imprisoning a person without a charge.
Habeas Corpus