US History Civil War & Reconstruction SSUSH8-10

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  1. 3. Radical Republicans Reconstruction-• Passed 14th and 15th amendments• Military reconstruction act divided the south into five military districts• New state constitutions required to guarantee voting rights• Military rule protected voting rights for African Americans• Empowered African Americans in government and supported their education
  2. 4. John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged
  3. 5. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime: Lincoln takes this away during the Civil War
  4. 8. Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36Ëš 30' within the Louisiana Territory
  5. 10. Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
  6. 14. Lincoln urged Americans not to seek revenge on slaveholders and their supporters and military after the war. Instead, he urged reconstruction of the South "with malice toward none; with charity for all."
  7. 17. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
  8. 18. Amendment that ended slavery
  9. 20. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  10. 22. 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves.
  11. 23. General Sherman and his troops set the city on fire, in order to destroy the confederate's supply lines and then Marched to the Sea, Savannah, and burnt everything along the way
  12. 26. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  13. 27. laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers
  14. 31. Amendment that says citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
  15. 34. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. Led to Bleeding Kansas.
  16. 35. Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  17. 36. view of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and a small % men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.
  18. 37. a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery.
  19. 38. an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the Civil War.
  20. 39. federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
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  1. 1. Lincoln issued it and freed all the slaves in the Confederate states, but slaves in Border States loyal to the Union remained enslaved. It only applied to states in rebellion (Confederate states). It led to slaves rebelling and joining the Union army and increased sympathy from Europe.
  2. 2. General whose march to sea caused destruction to the south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resources, beginning of total warfare
  3. 6. The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
  4. 7. he intentionally violates Tenure Act because it was set upt to get him impeached by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stantin, at the Trial his lawyer says his only crime is opposing Congress, 12 democrats and 7 republicans vote him "not guilty", so he escaped impeachment by one vote
  5. 9. violent abolitionist who murdered slaveholders in Kansas and Missouri (1856-1858) before his raid at Harpers Ferry (1859), hoping to incite a slave rebellion; he failed and was executed, but his martyrdom by northern abolitionists frightened the South.
  6. 11. Confederate general who surrendered to Grant in the Civil War.
  7. 12. Court ruled that he was the property of Sanford and, as a slave, was prohibited from suing in court. Chief Justice Taney gives his opinion that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Decision adds to sectionalism between North and South that will lead to the Civil War.
  8. 13. Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.
  9. 15. ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million
  10. 16. The 11th U.S. President, he led the country during the Mexican War and sought to expand the United States
  11. 18. Amendment declaring that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
  12. 19. 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)
  13. 21. the north/the U.S. during the Civil War
  14. 24. 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 about 23,000 casualties
  15. 25. The most violent battle of the American Civil War that took place in PA and is frequently cited as the war's turning point, fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863.
  16. 28. 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land.
  17. 29. Lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede
  18. 30. Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president
  19. 32. the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.
  20. 33. putting the country back together after the Civil War.