Greenstein '11
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| 301706904 | Yankee | An American who lives in the North (Union soldiers were called yankees) | |
| 301706905 | Rebel | Used by Union Soldiers as a nickname for Confederate soldiers. | |
| 301744561 | Union | Northern army in the Civil War. Wore blue and fought against the Confederates, | |
| 301744562 | Fort Sumpter | This battle in South Carolina marked the beginning of the Civil War. Located in Charleston Harbor, it was here that the Confederates opened fire. The Union surrendered the fort. | |
| 301744563 | Border States | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. | |
| 301744564 | Conscription | This law passed by the Union government in 1863 forced all from 20 to 45 to fight, with a $300 buy-out. This law caused rioting all over the north, killing 100s. | |
| 301744565 | Bounty Brokers | Those who enticed poor people from Europe to enlist in the Union Army by giving them a bonus sum of money. | |
| 301744566 | Substitute Brokers | People who were willing to fight in place for wealthy Northerners for a sum of money. | |
| 301744567 | New York Draft Riots | Anti-conscription violence that protested the unfair $300 draft evasion fee that made poor people have to fight the war. | |
| 301744568 | Morrill Tariff | Imports and excise taxes placed on northern manufacturers in order to help fund the Civil War and protect industry. | |
| 301744569 | Greenbacks | Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war. | |
| 301850978 | National Banking System | Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds; created during the Civil War to establish a stable national currency and stimulate the sale of war bonds. | |
| 301850979 | Inflation | Printing too much money causing prices to increase and the value of money to decrease. | |
| 301850980 | Anaconda Plan | The strategy for the Union army devised by General Winfield Scott which involved choking off the main resources of the Confederate army with 3 main goals: Gain control of the Mississippi River, blockade the Southern ports, and to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. | |
| 301850981 | The Merrimac and the Monitor | Ironclad ships. The Merrimac was used by the Confederates while the Union controlled the Monitor. | |
| 301850982 | Bull Run | At Bull Run, a creek, Confederate soldiers charged Union men who were en route to besiege Richmond. Union troops fled back to Washington. Confederates didn't realize their victory in time to follow up on it. First major battle of the Civil War. | |
| 301850983 | Antietam | 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 almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. | |
| 301850984 | Gettysburg | The most violent battle of the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point, fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863. | |
| 301850985 | Vicksburg | The union forces wanted to capture Vicksburg in order to control to Mississippi River. (Union) Gen. Grant surrounded Vicksburg and bombed it for a month. The people and Confederate soldiers starved until they surrendered. | |
| 301850986 | March to the Sea | Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War began with his troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16th. Ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21st. | |
| 301850987 | Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862; it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free, this does not include border states. | |
| 301850988 | Copperheads | Lincoln believed that anti-war Northern Democrats harbored traitorous ideas and he labeled them "Copperheads", poisonous snakes waiting to get him. | |
| 301850989 | Appomattox Courthouse | The Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War. | |
| 301850990 | Exodusters | African Americans that moved from the post reconstruction south to Kansas to gain free soil in the westward expansion. | |
| 301850991 | Carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to profit financially from the unsettled conditions. They also tried to gain political power. | |
| 301850992 | Freedmen | Former slaves freed after the Civil War. | |
| 301850993 | 10 Percent Plan | It was a reconstruction plan that decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the union when 10 percent of voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and pledged to abide by emancipation. | |
| 301850994 | 13th Amendment | This amendment freed all slaves without compensation to the slave owners. It legally forbade slavery in the United States. | |
| 301850995 | 14th Amendment | This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state and national levels. | |
| 301850996 | 15th Amendment | Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. | |
| 301850997 | Force Acts | The government banned the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent someone from voting because of their race. Other laws banned the KKK entirely and brought forth military help to enforce these laws. | |
| 301850998 | Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union | |
| 301850999 | Freedmen's Bureau | Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs | |
| 301851000 | Black Codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves. Still oppressed African Americans to a "moderate form of slavery". | |
| 301851001 | Impeachment | The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the Constitution. The House of Representatives may impeach the president by a majority vote for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." | |
| 301851002 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. | |
| 301851003 | Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross. | |
| 301851004 | Sally Tompkins | Confederate nurse who ran a hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War. | |
| 301851005 | Jefferson Davis | American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865. | |
| 301851006 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force. | |
| 301851007 | General George McClellan | Replaced McDowell. Lincoln's first choice for commander of the Union forces. He prepared and trained the soldiers well but never attacked. | |
| 301851008 | General Ulysses S. Grant | Was 18 president and the toughest general ever in the Union Army. He was fearless and won many battles and led the Union to a victory. | |
| 301851009 | General William Tecumseh Sherman | In 1864, heavily relied on by Lincoln. Won brilliantly in Atlanta. Basically destroyed the South. In Sherman's March he took 300-mile march to the sea from Atlanta, destroying everything in his path and freeing slaves. Also ravaged South Carolina. | |
| 301851010 | John Wilkes Booth | A southern actor; April 14, 1865; shot Abraham Lincoln to death in Ford's Theater. | |
| 301851011 | Andrew Johnson | Abraham Lincoln's Vice President and the 17th President of the United States; a Democrat; impeached by the House of Representatives, but was found not guilty by a single vote in the senate. | |
| 301851012 | Thaddeus Stevens | Man behind the 14th Amendment, which ends slavery. Stevens and President Johnson were absolutely opposed to each other. Known as a Radical Republican in the senate. | |
| 301851013 | William Seward | Secretary of State who was responsible for purchasing Alaskan Territory from Russia. By purchasing Alaska, he expanded the territory of the country at a reasonable price. | |
| 301851014 | Hiram Revels | Black Mississippi senator elected to the seat that had been occupied by Jefferson Davis when the South seceded. | |
| 301851015 | Winslow Homer | United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910). | |
| 301851016 | Mathew Brady | Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people. |
