Review Chapter 4

4. a northener who moved to the south after the civil war
5. a white southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war
9. the period of rebuilding that followed the civil war, during which the defeated confederate states were readmitted on the union
10. proclamation an executive order issued by abraham lincoln on january 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind confederate lines
11. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
14. town near appomatox, virginia, where lee surrendered to grant on april 9,1865
18. a 26 year old actor and southern sympathizer then leaped down from the presidential box to the stage and escaped
20. one of the two remaining confederate strongholds on the mississippi river

1. a famous speech delivered by abraham lincoln in november 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the battle of gettysburg
2. a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war
3. union nurse
6. an amendment to the US constitution, adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
7. a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
8. a tax on earnings
12. an amendment to the US constitution, adopted in 1870, that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves
13. the formal withdrawal of a state from the union
15. the drafting of citizens for military service
16. a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to canada or to safe areas in the free states
17. the confederate states of america, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union
19. a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the civil war