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- seward's folly
- The Alaska Purchase by the United States from the Russian Empire
- Robert lee
- Lee's greatest victories were the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Chancellorsville; opposed the secession; took command of the Confederate forces in the East
- Bull Run
- was the first major land battle of the American Civil War
- Thaddeus Stevens
- national Republican leader in the struggles against slavery in the United States and intrepid mainstay of the attempt to secure racial justice for the freedmen
- emancipation proclamation
- changed to war for slavery; declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America
- George mccllelan
- major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army; relieved of command
- freedman's bureau
- was to provide food, medical care, help with resettlement, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools
- Sharecropping
- is a system of agriculture or agricultural production where a landowner allows a sharecropper to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land
- Antietam
- first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history,
- Ex Parte Milligan
- United States Supreme Court case that ruled suspension of Habeas Corpus
- radical republicans
- opposed Lincoln's "too easy" terms for reuniting the United States following the end of the Civil War
- Clement Vallandigham
- opposed lincoln;unionist of the Copperhead faction of anti-war, pro-Confederate Democrats
- 14th amendment
- intended to secure rights for former slaves.
- swing around the circle
- speaking campaign of US President Andrew Johnson in which he tried to gain support of his mild Reconstruction policies
- carpetbaggers
- Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction
- Civil Rights Act
- guaranteed blacks the same treatment as whites in certain public places
- Merrimac
- confedearte
- conquered provinces
- called for a military occupation of the South. This, they believed, was the only way to change the social order of the South.
- Andrew johnson
- Lincoln's vp
- 15th amendment
- provides that governments in the United States may not prevent a citizen from voting based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude (i.e. slavery
- Force Acts
- several groups of acts passed by the United States Congress. The term usually refers to the events after the American Civil War. mainly aimed at limiting the reach of the Ku Klux Klan
- black codes
- rural Southern states in the United States to restrict the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. While some northern states also passed legislation discriminating against African Americans before the Civil War, the term Black Codes is most commonly associated with legislation passed by Southern states after the Civil War in an attempt to control the labor, movements and activities of African Americans.
- gettysburg
- largest number of casualties ; TURNING POINt; confederate retreated
- Copperheads
- vocal group of Democrats in the North (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates
- Tenure of office act
- enacted over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, denied the President of the United States the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the United States Senate unless the Senate also approved the removal.
- 13th amendment
- officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery, plus
- william sherman
- scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war
- charles sumner
- leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction
- KKK
- organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, racism, homophobia, anti-Communism and nativism. These organizations have often used terrorism, violence, and acts of intimidation, such as cross burning and lynching, to oppress African Americans and other social or ethnic groups.; founded by veterans of confederate army
- 10 percent
- decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation
- military reconstruction act
- the governments of the southern states using the governments of the northern states as examples. It was also implemented to ensure that the civil rights of the free blacks in the South
- George Meade
- officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg