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CW and Reconstruct.
Civil War and Reconstruction Assignment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crittenden Compromise | A compromise proposed shortly before the Civil War that attempted to restore many aspects of slave policy around the time of the Missouri Compromise. |
| Robert E. Lee | A Confederate General who was considered one of the best generals of his time and was a descendant of George Washington. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | A battle that ended in Union victory, the costliest and biggest battle that has ever occurred on American soil. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | A Union General who, at the start of the war, led the Army of the West |
| Battle of Bull Run | First battle of the Civil War that ended in a surprising Confederate victory, watched by Washington officials |
| Gettysburg Address | A roughly 2-minute speech that President Lincoln gave at the dedication of a national cemetery that evoked the founding fathers and other revolutionary rhetoric |
| Army of the West | Union Army that operated in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Mississippi River Valley |
| Election of 1860 | Election between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, made South Carolina secede. |
| General McClellan | A Union general who was known for his extremely careful decision-making, eventually fired by Abraham Lincoln for his incompetence in capturing Richmond, Virginia. |
| Election of 1864 | Election between Abraham Lincoln and a former general who was popular among his former soldiers |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Action by President Lincoln that freed southern slaves in a year but not slaves in the Union. |
| Border States | States between the North and the South that often had both Confederate and Union support. |
| Battle of the Wilderness | A battle that halted Grant's advance into Virginia |
| Fort Sumter | Union fort attacked by the Confederates when President Lincoln tried to resupply it |
| Secession | Unconstitutional measure of a state leaving the United States was first executed by South Carolina |
| Copperheads | Democrats who opposed the Civil War in the north |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | Military action that led to the eventual capture of Savannah, Georgia on December 21, 1864 |
| Carpetbaggers | Pejorative for northerners who came to the South after the Civil War |
| Scalawags | Pejorative used by southerners that described a white southerner who worked with Northern Republicans. |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment that outlawed slavery in the U.S. |
| 14th Amendment | Amendment that made former slaves citizens and gave them equal protection under the law. |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment that disallowed many ways in which African American voters were often kept from voting. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Organization formed to help former slaves after the Civil War |
| Sharecropping | Agriculture practice that exchanged land for a portion of the produce gathered on that land |
| Force Acts | A series of four acts that allowed for federal intervention against Southern refusal to accept black people. |
| Black Codes | Laws put in place in the South that tried to approximate slavery without actually having slavery by keeping black people as a cheap labor force. |
| Radical Republicans | Group of politicians that advocated for harsh policies against the south after the Civil War. |
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