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History
Wednesday
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War because many southern towns, cities, plantations, roads, and bridges were damaged |
| Radical Republicans | people who beleived the South must be punished during Reconstruction |
| Freedmen's Bureau | government agency helping former enslaved persons- distributed food, clothing, medical service, schools and provided Blacks a job as a teacher. as well as give land to Blakcs abandoned/seized by Union armies with free transportation and fair wages |
| John Wilkes Booth | member of a group that assassinated high ranked government officials. Booth assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC |
| Andrew Johnson | vice president of Lincoln, success to President after assassination |
| 13th Amendmant | what amendmant abolished slavery? |
| integrated | whites and blacks together |
| 1861-1865 | the civil war |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Union win, bloodiest battle, turning point for the Yankees |
| Emancipation Proclamation | document stating slaves were now and forever free |
| Dred Scott | slave that took his case to the Supreme Court but the judge ruled that slaves were not citizens, but property so no owner of a slave can have their slave taken away |
| Battle of Antietam | the most deadliest day in the Civil War |
| Gettysburg | what was the deadliet battle in the Civil War? |
| Confederate Win | Bull Run (First and Second), Chancellorsville, Chickamauga |
| Republicanism | favoring a republic (-representative government) |
| War of 1812 | President- James Madison / War hero- Andrew Jakcson at Battle of New Orleans. War was caused by expansion conflicts & releived by the Treaty of Ghent. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" about the injustices of slavery which took on a new urgency of reform. |
| Peace Democrats | Democrats who beleived war much end under any means possible, "Copperheads". |
| Abraham Lincoln | The president during the Civil War who had more of a position on restoring a peaceful Union rather than slavery. Assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. |
| General Sherman | Union general who led the victorious group in Chattanooga. |
| Clara Barton | Woman who delivered supplies directly to the front lines & tended to the wounded and dying. She established the Red Cross in 1881. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's army. |
| poll tax | payment due in order to vote |
| Black Codes | officers could arrest unemployed blacks and make them work to pay off their fines, prevent Blacks from owning or renting land, and allowed orphaned Blacks to be unpaid apprentices. |
| Battle of Richmond | Confederate win, control of the Mississippi |
| Battle of Shiloh | Union win, Confederate surprise attack |
| Battle of Mobile Bay | Union win, important railroad center |
| Ku Klux Klan | group of people who terrorized Blacks during Reconstruction with murdering, "lynching," & pressuring them to not vote. |
| Union Win | Gettysburg, Antietam, Vicksburg, Shiloh |
| 14th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that protects the rights of its citizens |
| 15th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that cannot deny a person from voting becuase of race, ethnicity, religion, etc. |
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