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| Top general in the Confederacy. A former Union officer that was offered command of the Union Army, later joined the South after his native Virginia seceded. |
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| Top Union general at the beginning of the war. An over-cautious general, he was fired by President Lincoln for failure to press Lee's Confederate troops in Richmond. |
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| a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War |
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New York draft riots
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| A series of violent disturbances in New York City; were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the Civil War. Mainly blacks and Irish |
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Anaconda Plan
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| Union plan to block all of the Confederate's resources, strangling them economically by taking over water ways with the navy. (suffocate them to surrender) |
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“Stonewall” Jackson
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| general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863) |
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| 1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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| Successful Union general who won battles in the Western Theater before being promoted as the top commander of the Union Army. |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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| Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free |
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Battle of Antietam
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| the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation |
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Battle of Shiloh
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| This was battle fought by Grant in an attempt to capture the railroad of the South. The battle was fought in the west prevented the north from obtaining an easy victory. However, the Confederates strong resistance showed that they would not go quietly and the war was far from over. |
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54th Massachusetts
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| Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the second African-American regiment. |
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| Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field. (nurse during the civil war) |
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Siege of Vicksburg
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| Battle which gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, a major part of their Anaconda plan |
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Battle of Gettysburg
#MajorVictory |
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| Union General George G. Meade led an army of about 90,000 men to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army of about 75,000. Gettysburg is the war's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a northern state, and for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. |
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
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| a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864 |
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Election of 1864
#Mr.Cleanvs"Mr.Clean" |
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| Lincoln vs. McClellan, Lincoln wants to unite North and South, McClellan wants war to end if he's elected, citizens of North are sick of war so many votes for McClellan, Lincoln wins. |
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Appomattox Courthouse
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| Lee surrendered to Grant, considered to mark end of the Civil War, April 1865, the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War |
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13th Amendment
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| stated that slavery was illegal |
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| was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. |
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| Reconstruction ended the remnants of Confederate secession and ended slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly guaranteed by three new Constitutional amendments. |
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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| Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom. |
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| Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson assumed the presidency as he was Vice President of the United States at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
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Radical Republicans
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| The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "Radicals" with a sense of a complete permanent eradication of slavery and secessionism, without compromise. |
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| The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. |
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14th Amendment
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| a very important amendment that defines what it means to be a US citizen and protects certain rights of the people. |
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Military Reconstruction Act
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| Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866, they quickly passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These acts divided the south into five military districts. |
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| United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. |
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| a carpetbagger was any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and was perceived to be exploiting the local populace. |
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Scalawags
#OhHoneyImSupportedYouAllAlong |
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| were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction after the American Civil War. |
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Ku Klux Klan
#HateSpeechDoesntExist |
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| an American white supremacist hate group, whose primary target are African Americans. |
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Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877
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| unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. |
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“New South"
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| refers to the economic shift from an exclusively agrarian society to one that embraced industrial development. |
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Sharecroppers
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| someone would plow, plant, weed, and harvest the land but only be able to keep a small share of the crop. |
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