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| Convinced congress to ratify the treaty of Geneva, founder of the Red Cross | ||
| Antislaveryite from New York, he stated that on the issue of slavery, there was a higher law than the Constitution | ||
| An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 | ||
| 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) | ||
| Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | ||
| Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War | ||
| The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861. | ||
| Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry, and that North needed South's cotton. Coined by James Hammond | ||
| the states between the North and the South that were divided over whether to stay in the Union or join the Confederacy | ||
| A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president. | ||
| was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. | ||
| A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for thirty-two years. He is best known for fighting on behalf of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War. | ||
| general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863) | ||
| an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | ||
| a general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice. | ||
| United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891) | ||
| a Union General, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. | ||
| a former wooden warship. The Confederates plated it with iron railroad rails. They renamed it the Virginia. The Virginia easily wrecked Union Navy ships and threatened to destroy the whole Navy. The Confederates later destroy the ship to keep it from the Union. This marks the end of wooden ships. | ||
| an iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimack. | ||
| Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free | ||
| This amendment freed all slaves without compensation to the slaveowners. It legally forbade slavery in the United States. | ||
| Most extreme portion of the Peace Democrats. They openly obstructed the war through attacks against the draft, against Lincoln, and the emancipation. Based in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. There was really no victory for this group. | ||
| First major battle of the Civil War, in which untrained Northern troops and civilian picnickers fled back to Washington. This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war. | ||
| Conflict between Lee and General John Pope in August 1862, ending in a decisive victory by Lee that led to increased confidence and an attempt to convince Maryland to secede, | ||
| Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties | ||
| Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennslyvania, resulted in the loss of 50,000 soldiers | ||
| 17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached | ||
| A radical Republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the radical Republicans in Congress. | ||
| a federal government agency established in 1865 to provide education, health care, and employment to former slaves in the South | ||
| African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas. | ||
| 1864; Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution; Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned. | ||
| pledged loyalty to union by ten percent of the southern states votes towards the union and emncipation. | ||
| Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | ||
| 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. | ||
| citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude | ||
| system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops | ||
| a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep african americans from obtaining their civil rights | ||
| northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction |
