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Which Reconstruction Amendment abolished slavery?
13th
17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.
Andrew Johnson
Started the Civil War; first battle of the Civil War
Firing on Fort Sumter
Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Executive Order issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
Which Reconstruction Amendment declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws?
14th
16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln
The first major battle of the Civil War; won by the Confederacy.
First Battle Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
Freed slave working as a servant for Jefferson Davis. She became a Union spy.
Mary Bowser
Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Court House
Which Reconstruction Amendment says that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude?
15th
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force.
Robert E. Lee
The bloodiest overall battle of the Civil War. It was the turning point of the Civil War. Union victory.
Battle of Gettysburg
Union spy; Ran a spy ring in Richmond, VA; Placed a spy in the household of Jefferson Davis
Elizabeth Van Lew
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
Juneteenth
Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Ten Percent Plan
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Frederick Douglass
During the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way.
Sherman's March to the Sea
An American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
A sailor and later a Union naval captain, he was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism. He became a Congressman after the Civil War.
Robert Smalls
An 1864 bill that Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution; Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned.
Wade-Davis Bill
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War.
Black Codes
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites.
Jim Crow
(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights
Gettysburg Address
What killed the most soldiers during the American Civil War?
Disease