Civil War and Reconstruction

5. location of the South's surrender
8. became president after Lincoln is assassinated
10. citizens get to decide if their state allows slavery or not
12. placing a region's interests ahead of the whole country's interests
13. turning point in the North; Confederates never fully recover after this battle; bloodiest battle of the war
15. political party that Lincoln was part of
19. laws passed in the South to prevent freedmen from using their new rights
21. the idea that states should be able to decide most things for themselves
22. At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln's main goal was to ____ the Union
25. this legislation was overruled with the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
26. first state to seceede from the Union

1. SCOTUS case that ruled slaves were not citizens and slavery could spread anywhere
2. this proposed that all land gained from Mexico should be free; did not pass in Congress
3. this group controlled Congressional Reconstruction and wanted to harshly punish the South
4. charging a public official with a crime
6. the name of the Union's military strategy
7. Confederate President
9. first shots of the Civil War in South Carolina
11. this document from Lincoln freed slaves in only Confederate states
14. general for the Confederacy
16. general for the Union
17. single bloodiest day of the Civil War; led to the Emancipation Proclamation
18. the era of Reconstruction that was led by Lincoln and then Johnson; wanted to readmit the South as quickly as possible and lenient
20. organization made by Congress to help former slaves
23. led the March to Sea
24. Union takes control of the Mississippi River