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- 4. The greatest battle of the Civil War, fought in south-central Pennsylvania in 1863. It ended in a major victory for the North and is usually considered the turning point of the war.
- 7. Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States.
- 10. clause a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.
- 12. Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, passed between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War.
- 14. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
- 17. Sovereignty the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
- 18. of 1877 a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
- 20. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way
- 21. Liberator a person who liberates a person or place from imprisonment or oppression.
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- 1. Court House fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
- 2. Party a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.
- 3. Act created the territories of Kansasand Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each state
- 5. a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
- 6. S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War
- 8. Compromise also called the Compromise of 1820, was a plan proposed by Henry Clay of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was signed by President James Monroe and passed in 1820
- 9. Slave Law A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery.
- 11. Scott Decision A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master
- 13. a league or alliance, especially of confederate states
- 14. of 1850 A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.
- 15. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
- 16. E. Lee was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.
- 19. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.