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The 16th president of the United States, who led the country through the Civil War, abolished slavery, and delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A pivotal battle fought in Pennsylvania in July 1863, resulting in a major Union victory and marking the turning point of the Civil War in favor of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was passed in 1865 abolishing slavery in the US, freeing all enslaved people.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These were laws passed in the South after the Civil War to limit the freedoms of blacks and force them into working on farms or as laborers.
What are Black Codes?
A system in the South after the Civil War where poor farmers would farm land owned by someone else and give a portion of their crops as payment.
What is sharecropping?
The commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, known for his leadership and his eventual surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
A significant Union victory in 1863, in which Union forces, led by General Grant, captured a Confederate stronghold in Mississippi, splitting the Confederacy in two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This was passed in 1868 granting citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the US, including former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was a secret white supremacist group formed in the South during Reconstruction that used violence and intimidation to oppose Black rights and Reconstruction efforts.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A Union general known for his "March to the Sea" through Georgia, using total war tactics to break the Confederacy’s will to fight.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The commanding general of the Union Army, whose leadership led to the defeat of the Confederacy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A devastating military campaign from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864, where Union forces destroyed infrastructure and resources in their path.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This was ratified in 1870 giving black men the right to vote by prohibiting states from denying voting rights based on race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These were used in the South after Reconstruction to prevent Blacks from voting by requiring them to read and write before voting, often in unfair ways.
What are literacy tests?
They were a group of Congress members who wanted to punish the South for the Civil War and ensure equal rights for blacks during Reconstruction.
What are the Radical Republicans?
He was the 17th President of the United States, who took office after Lincoln’s assassination and opposed many Reconstruction efforts.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A major battle fought in Maryland on September 17, 1862, known as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Preceded the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
A law that provided 160 acres of land to settlers in the western US if they agreed to improve and farm the land for five years, encouraging westward expansion.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
These were fees that people had to pay to vote, which were often used to prevent Blacks from voting during Reconstruction and beyond.
What are poll taxes?
This was a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
What is a scalawag?
The leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, advocating for civil rights and land reforms for freed slaves.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
The site in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
A law passed by Congress that provided land and funding for the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
These laws were state and local laws in the South that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against Black from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s
What are Jim Crow laws?
The 1896 Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation was legal under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?