Unit 9 Vocabulary

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

abolish slavery

Question 2

Republicans

Answer 2

anti-slavery political party of Abraham Lincoln

Question 3

Antietam

Answer 3

bloodiest day in American history; Lincoln saw this much-needed victory as a chance to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 4

Philip Bazaar

Answer 4

Chilean immigrant who fought in the US Navy during the Civil War

Question 5

US Civil War

Answer 5

conflict between Northern free states (The Union) and the pro-slavery southern states (The Confederacy). The South was trying to preserve its way of life, while the North was trying to preserve the “the Union” of the United States

Question 6

Fort Sumter

Answer 6

battle the marked the beginning of the Civil War

Question 7

William Carney

Answer 7

African American soldier who demonstrated courage during the Battle of Fort Wagner

Question 8

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Answer 8

first African American to serve in the United States US Congress. He represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction

Question 9

14th Amendment

Answer 9

guaranteed “equal protection of the laws” and “due process” for all citizens

Question 10

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 10

declared slaves in states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be free

Question 11

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 11

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at this location, bringing the fighting to the Civil War to an end

Question 12

Robert E. Lee

Answer 12

leading general of the Confederate Army

Question 13

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 13

leading general of the Union Army

Question 14

2nd Inaugural Address

Answer 14

Lincoln focused on the end of slavery and the need to take a conciliatory, or healing, approach to the war’s end

Question 15

Gettysburg

Answer 15

Lee’s offensive march northward was stopped at this battle, the turning point of the war

Question 16

1st Inaugural Address

Answer 16

Lincoln pledged not to attack slavery in the South but announced that he had a duty to protect the Union

Question 17

Gettysburg Address

Answer 17

Lincoln’s argument that the war had become a struggle to see if the system of democracy could survive

Question 18

15th Amendment

Answer 18

prohibited denial of voting rights for men because of race

Question 19

Andrew Johnson

Answer 19

President of the US after the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction; sworn in following Lincoln’s assassination

Question 20

Jefferson Davis

Answer 20

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Question 21

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 21

set up by the US government to assist the free slaves with adjusting to life after slavery, and to set up schools for education

Question 22

“Black Codes”

Answer 22

Southern state legislatures created laws based on older slave codes that limited the civil rights and freedom of movement of the freedmen

Question 23

Vicksburg

Answer 23

Union victory allowed the North to take total control of the MS River

Question 24

Reconstruction Era

Answer 24

time period after the Civil War when the US government followed through on a plan to repair and bring the southern states back into the Union without slavery