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APUSH Period 5 Terms
U.S. History
Question | Answer |
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Abraham Lincoln | 16th president - President during the Civil War |
Battle of Atlanta | Union destroyed railroad and manufacturing center of the South; essentially marked end of war |
Battle of Antietam | first battle fought on Northern soil (Maryland); bloodiest day of war |
Battle of Gettysburg | fought in Pennsylvania; Union victory; considered a turning point in the war; deadliest battle of the war |
Dred Scott Decision | African- Americans (even free) could not be U.S. citizens; slaves could not 'earn" freedom by traveling to free states |
Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Abraham Lincoln; declared all slaves living in Confederate states to be free |
Fort Sumter | in South Carolina; scene of the first battle of Civil War |
Habeas Corpus | right of those arrested to be charged/brought before a judge; suspended during war with Lincoln |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
John Brown | abolitionist; led raid on armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
Kansas- Nebraska Act | determined new territories/states would use popular sovereignty to decide slavery issue; led to Bleeding Kansas |
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address | Lincoln made clear that slavery would be abolished after the war; urged Northerners not to take revenge on the South |
Popular Sovereignty | people vote to decide an issue (used for slavery/freedom during this time) |
Robert E. Lee | head general of the Confederate army; offered surrender at end of the war |
Siege of Vicksburg | Union victory; allowed them to gain control of traffic on the Mississippi River and cut off Confederates in the west; turning point |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general; brilliant tactician who died in battle |
Ulysses S. Grant | head general of the Union army; accepted Lee's surrender |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general; led Battle of Atlanta and subsequent March to the Sea |
1876 Presidential Election | between Democrat Tilden and Republican Hayes; Hayes' controversial victory effectively ended Reconstruction |
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment | Republican president was at odds with Radical Republican Congress; House voted to impeach but Senate aquitted |
Black Codes | laws passed in the South; restricted the rights of African- Americans |
Compromise of 1877 | after Hayes' controversial victory; he agreed to end Reconstruction in exchange for winning the election |
13th amendment | amendment that ended involuntary servitude of slavery |
14th amendment | granted citizenship to every male person born in the U,S, or of U.S. citizens |
15th amendment | granted voting rights to all male citizens of the U.S. |
Freedman's Bureau | government organization; meant to assist former slaves in gaining education, jobs, legal rights, etc. |
Ku Klux Klan | group of former Confederate soldiers/supporters; formed with the intent of disenfranchising black voters |
Morehouse College | black college opened in Atlanta; taught ministers and teachers |
Presidential Reconstruction | favored by Lincoln and Johnson; wanted to reunify the country quickly and did not seek to punish the South |
Radical Reconstruction | favored by Ulysses S. Grant and Congress; wanted to punish the South for seceding and sought to protect the rights of Black citizens |
Union | United States of America; the North |
Confederacy | Confederate states of America; the South |
Gettysburg Address | given by Lincoln while dedicating battlefield to fallen soldiers; short speech which improved morale and Northerners |