Unit 4 Vocab Flashcards
The leader of the Union army was ________?
Ulysses S. Grant
The leader of the Confederate army was _______?
Robert E. Lee
The ____________ was a Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy: blockade Southern ports, split the Confederacy in half at the Mississippi River, and take over the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
Anaconda Plan
The first shots of the Civil War were at _____________ Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
Fort Sumter
Declared that all slaves living in areas currently under Confederate control were now free
Emancipation Proclamation
A court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed
Habeas Corpus
Abraham Lincoln used the _____________ to reassure Americans that they were right in fighting the bloody war as well as to remind Americans the principles in which the country had been founded.
Gettysburg Address
The end of the Civil War was at ________________ where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Court House
_____________ was a part of the Union army who also developed and carried out the March to the Sea.
William T. Sherman
What Amendment is this?
- “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”
13th Amendment
WHO is the 26 year-old assassin that killed Lincoln, actor, and southern sympathizer?
John Wilkes Booth
Organization that was established to help free slaves and poor whites in the South with education, food, shelter, and medical needs
Freedmen’s Bureau
To formally charge a president with misconduct while in office
Impeach
All persons naturalized in the U.S. citizens of the country; granted equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
The period during which the federal government began the process of accepting those states who seceded back into the Union
Reconstruction
Discriminatory laws severely restricted African American’s liver; had the effect of restoring many of the restrictions of slavery
Black Codes
States that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; universal male suffrage
15th Amendment
Group in Congress who believed it was the responsibility of Congress to oversee Reconstruction; They believed Johnson’s reconstruction plan was too lenient
Radical Republicans
President during Reconstruction after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Referred to the belief that these northerners arrived with so few belongings that everything could fit in a carpetbag, a small piece of luggage made of carpeting
Carpetbagger
Democrats who opposed the Republican’s plan for Reconstruction –> worse than the carpetbagger
Scalawag
_______ was the first African American to serve in any house of Congress
Hiram Revels
In _________, landowners divided their land and gave each worker a few acres to harvest in return for a portion of the crop back to the landowner
Sharecropping
__________ allowed farmers to rent land for cash from planters and keep all of their harvest
Tenant Farming
Republican candidate for president during the election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Violent domestic terrorist organization originally founded to restore white supremacy and terrorize African Americans from exercising their Constitutional rights
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Ended Reconstruction; Allowed for Hayes to become president as long as the federal troops were removed from the South
Compromise of 1877
Democratic candidate for president during the election of 1876
Samuel J. Tilden
