The Civil War

1. Lincoln, led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in abolishing slavery
7. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former enslaved people and guaranteed equal protection of the law
8. the deadliest one day battle in American military history
12. Proclamation, declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states shall be free.
15. Codes, restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished
16. Davis, captured by Northern soldiers and imprisoned at Fort Monroe

2. surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant
3. Sumter, the site of the first shots of the Civil War
4. Bureau, important agency of early Reconstruction assisting freedmen in the South
5. Crow Era, state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
6. run, first major battle of the American Civil war fought on July 21, 1861
9. plan, strategy outlined by the Union Army suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War
10. Address, was delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg.
11. final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War
13. terms for readmission of representation of rebel states
14. vs Ferguson, court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality