Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States, 13th Amendment - abolished slavery, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan - If a former Confederate state wrote a new state constitution, elected new government, repealed its act of secession, canceled its war debts, and ratified the 13th amendment it could rejoin the Union, 14th Amendment - former slaves are now citizens and have equal protection under the law, 15th Amendment - gave the right to vote to African American Men, Freedman's Bureau - organization created to provide medical care, housing, education and jobs to for slaves and poor whites. acks after the Civil War, Radical Republicans - After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South., Congressional Reconstruction Act - Divided the South into 5 military districts and stationed troops in each district, Lincoln's Plan (10% Plan) - Showed Compassion; The South could rejoin the union when 10 percent of voters had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S., ratify 13th Amendment, and write a new state constitution, Emancipation Proclamation - 1. slaves in Confederate States would be free 2. Confederate states who were not rebelling against the Union could keep their slaves, sharecropping - A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops., KKK - white supermacy group formed in the South who used violence and fear towards freed slaves, Jefferson Davis - President of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Battle of Gettysburg - 3 day battle that was a turning point in the war for the Union. It ended Lee's hopes of invading the North., Union Blockade - Union used navy ships to prevent the South from trading cotton with the British, Anaconda Plan - Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south., Atlanta Campaign - General Sherman's plan to take Atlanta because it was a railroad hub. Succeeded and burned much of the city to the ground, Gen. William Sherman - Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah., Ulysses S. Grant - Union General for the Army, Robert E. Lee - Commander for the Confederate Army, March to the Sea - General Sherman's destructive path from Atlanta to Savannah. Destroyed everything along the way and captured Savannah., Reconstruction - Plan for rebuilding the South after the Civil War, King Cotton Diplomacy - the South's political strategy during the Civil War; it depended upon British and French dependency on southern cotton to the extent that those two countries would help the South break the blockade, Black Codes - laws passed by the South in response to the 13th Amendment, literacy tests, poll tax to vote, could not have interracial marriages, Poll Tax & Literacy Test - Used to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights according to the 15th Amendment, Appomattox Courthouse - Location where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War., Control of the Mississippi - Part of the Union strategy; cut the Confederacy in half and cut off its supply chain., General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - Confederate General known for his involvement in the 1st Battle of Bull Run and Fredericksburg., Radical Reconstruction Plan - Denied political positions to former Confederates., Hiram Rhodes Revels - 1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate,

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