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Year that Northern troops are pulled out of the South - Reconstruction ends

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1877

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Promise of the Freedman’s Bureau to former slaves, although they eventually lost both

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“40 Acres & a Mule”

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Southern Democrats elected when the Union troops leave - They take rights from AA’s

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“Redeemers”

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The idea that the South voted solidly for Democrats for about 100 years after the Civil War

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“Solid South”

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Amendment that freed the slaves

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13th Amendment

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Amendment that grants citizenship to anyone born in the US, gives all”Equal protection”, and guarantees “Due process”

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14th Amendment

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Amendment that gives voting rights to all male citizens

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15th Amendment

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Famous black regiment that fought @ Ft. Wagner

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54th Massachusetts

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Union’s battle plan: Blockade the south, take the Mississippi, control Richmond

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Anaconda Plan

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President after Lincoln - one of 2 presidents to be impeached

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Andrew Johnson

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One of two major northern battles; Bloodiest day of the war; South loses

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Antietam

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Site where Lee surrenders to Grant

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Appomattox Courthouse

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Laws restricting the rights of AA’s - basically ignore the fact that slaves are free

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Black Codes

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Popular sovereignty in KS leads Free-Soilers & pro-slavery supporters to KS - John Brown murders 5

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Bleeding Kansas

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Started the Tuskegee Institute to train AA’s & gave the “Atlanta Compromise” speech where he proposed that AA’s accept segregation temporarily in exchange for employment

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Booker T. Washington

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First major Southern victory of the Civil War - Proved the war will NOT end quickly

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Bull Run

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Northerners moving to the South during Reconstruction - hated by Southerners

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Carpetbaggers

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Agreement where CA enters as a Free Soil state, the rest of the Mexcian cession will be decided by Popular sovereignty, slave trade in DC will end, new fugitive slave law

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Compromise of 1850

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Agreement between the N & S stating that Hayes (R) would get to be President if the Union troops were removed from the South - ended Reconstruction

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Compromise of 1877

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Slave who sued for his freedom - Court rules that slaves are property & cannot sue - slavery can exist ANYWHERE in the US

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Dred Scott

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Election when Radical Republicans were elected to Congress in large numbers to bring order to the South

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Election of 1866

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Election when Lincoln was elected - the South freaks out & breaks away out of fear he’ll free their slaves

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Election of 1860

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Executive order that freed slaves in territory in rebellion against the Union

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Former slaves who leave the South to go to Kansas during Reconstruction

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Exodusters

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Government organization seeking to help free AA’s - “40 acres & a mule” - set up schools - held court to protect against black codes

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Freedman’s Bureau

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Movement to stop the SPREAD of slavery - is NOT an anti-slavery movement

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Free-Soil

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Famous battle of the 54th Massachusetts regiment - they lose, but prove AA’s are brave

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Ft. Wagner

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States that the North MUST help return slaves to the South - North hates it because of Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Part of Compromise of 1850

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Fugitive Slave Law

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Agreement that Congress would not bring up slavery

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Gag Rule

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Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War - Lee invades the north trying to put pressure on Washington DC & loses

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Gettysburg

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Anyone could vote if their grandfather was able to - this allowed uneducated & poor whites to vote while prohibiting AA’s

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Grandfather Clause

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Weapons depot raided by John Brown to give guns to slaves. Brown is captured & hung, but gets sympathy from many in the north

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Harper’s Ferry

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President of the CSA

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Jefferson Davis

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Laws passed that segregated the south

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Jim Crow Laws

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Radical abolitionist known for his actions at both Bleeding KS & Harper’s Ferry. He frightened the South & gained attention from the north while awaiting his execution by hanging for the deaths at Harper’s Ferry.

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John Brown

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Law that stated that KS & NE would be decided through popular sovereignty - undoes the Missouri Compromise

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Group organized in TN to intimidate AA’s from voting

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KKK

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Anti-slavery party that didn’t win any elections - eventully joins with northern Democrats to form the Republican party

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Liberty Party

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The idea that when 10% of the Southern states swore allegiance to the Union, they could be readmitted to Congress

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Lincoln ‘s 10% Plan

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Tests given to keep AA’s from voting

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Literacy Tests

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Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything in his path

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March to the Sea

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Missouri enters as a slave state, Maine enters as a free state, a line is drawn at the 36 30 to make future states obvious

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Missouri Compromise

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Southern nickname for slavery

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Peculiar Institution

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Last major battle before the South Surrenders

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Petersburg

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Supreme Court case declaring that “separate but equal” was legal

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Tax on voting used to keep AA’s from voting

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Poll Taxes

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Republicans who wanted to treat the south like conqured territory after the Civil War

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Radical Republicans

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The period of time when the South was readmitted to the Union after the Civil War

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Reconstruction

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Party of Lincoln - Made from Northern Democrats & members of the Liberty party - a Free Soil party - NOT ANTI-SLAVERY!

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Republican Party

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Term for southerners who agreed with the Republicans during Reconstruction - hated by South!

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Scalawags

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Arrangement where former slaves worked fields & gave a % of the food to the owner - often forced AA’s back into an arrangement like slavery

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Sharecropping

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War against every part of your enemy’s land - houses, fields, livestock, etc.

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Total War

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Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the evils of slavery - convinces many in north to disobey the Fugitive slave laws

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Turning point of the Civil War - Grant takes this city & gains control of the Mississippi

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Vicksburg

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Led the “March to the Sea” from Atlanta to Savannah, GA - Destroyed everything in his path

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Failed bill in Congress proposing that all the land gained from Mexico enter as “Free Soil” states

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Wilmot Proviso

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