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Social Studies voc v
Mr.D
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| border state | decided to stay in union |
| martial law | rule by army instead of government |
| battle of bull run | showed that both sides needed more training |
| virginia | first confederate iron ship |
| monitor | union's iron ship |
| battle of antietam | no clear victor in this battle |
| battle of fredricksberg | unions worst defeat |
| battle of chancellorsville | union loss |
| battle of shiloh | bloodiest battle |
| emancipate | to free |
| emancipation proclamation | trying to free slaves |
| 54th Mass Regiment | famous African American unit, led troops into Confederate fort |
| Fort wagner | Southern fort 54th Mass led troops into |
| copperheads | northerners who opposed using force |
| draft | required all able men to serve in war |
| habeas corpus | be changed or have a hearing before being jailed |
| income tax | tax on people's earning |
| inflation | rise in prices and loss in value |
| profiteer | charged too much on goods needed during war |
| siege | an enemy position |
| Battle of Gettysburg | most important battle, Union victory |
| Pickett's charge | General Pickett's charge that killed many Confederate men |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's 10 sentence famous speech |
| total war | destroy everything |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Where Lee surrendered to the Union, ending the Civil War |
| Freedmen | men and women who had been slaves but were freed |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of south |
| 10% Plan | Lincoln's plan toward reconstruction |
| Amnesty | government pardon |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Required Confederate states to swear loyalty to Union |
| Freedmen's Bureau | helped freed slaves start better lives |
| thirteenth amendment | banned slavery |
| black codes | severely limited rights of freedmen |
| radical republicans | vowed to take control of reconstruction |
| 14th amendment | defined citizen's as being all persons born or naturalized in the US |
| Radical Reconstruction | when radicals took control of reconstruction |
| reconstruction act | threw out state governments that refused to ratify 14th amendment |
| impeach | bring formal charges against |
| 15th amendment | forbade any state to deny a citizen their right to vote |
| scalawags | scruffy horse or white southern republican |
| carpetbaggers | northerner who went to live in South after Civil War |
| conservatives | wanted no changes by congress |
| KKK | secret group that wanted to keep freedmen and white republicans out of office |
| sharecropper | rented and farmed land |
| poll taxes | fee to vote |
| literacy test | required one to read and explain a part of the Constitution to be able to vote |
| Grandfather clause | If your grandfather could vote then you could |
| segregation | separation of races |
| Jim Crow laws | trapped southern blacks n a hopeless situation |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | ruled segregation was legal |
| New South | South with a better economy |
| Missouri Compromise | kept the number of slave and free states equal |
| Wilmot Proviso | law to ban slavery in territories won from Mexico |
| Popular sovereignty | right of people to create their own government |
| free soil party | party formed out keep slavery out of west |
| secede | remove themselves |
| fugitive | runaway |
| civil war | war between people of same country |
| compromise of 1850 | compromise to free slaves |
| fugitive slave act | required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves |
| uncle tom's cabin | showed the cruelty of slavery |
| border ruffians | battled the antislavery forces in kansas |
| guerilla warfare | hit and run tactics |
| lawsuit | legal case brought to settle a dispute |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | court's decision that slaves were property |
| republican party | created to take a strong stand on slavery |
| arsenal | gun warfare house owned by government |
| treason | action against one's country |
| martyr | willing to die for beliefs |
| Kanas-Nebraska act | split Nebraska into two separate states with their own governments |
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