Chapter 15

1. employed by grant during the war, it is the idea that you destroy or take anything that comes in your way.
3. were important to control for the union, if they seceeded the union would be lost
5. were too radical at the time to be considered a viable party
6. laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers
8. document which would have ensured the protection of slavery in Kansas
9. total war
10. northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction
11. Union general, 1st commander, overly cautious, fired by Lincoln
13. andrew johnson was almost impeached but barely survived
14. people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop
15. invented the mechanical reaper
18. was caned by preston brooks for his abolitionist speech
19. Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War

1. States cannot secede from the Union
2. This amendment freed all slaves
4. Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross
7. made the two territories and established popular sovereignty in them
12. a depression that proved that an independent south was economically viable
16. southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction
17. the conspiracy in the north that they believd drove the south