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| Union general; later became head general through a series of victories | ||
| Assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth (date) | ||
| Made by Abraham Lincoln that once a certain amount of people recognized the Union and slavery, the state would be allowed back into the Union | ||
| made former slaves citizens and provided them with equal protection under the law | ||
| State purchased from Russia | ||
| President of the Union during the Civil War | ||
| Union attack on Richmond using the James and York Rivers | ||
| General Lee against General McClellan; Union victory; bloodiest battle of the Civil War | ||
| Union Victory; ended a day after the end of the Battle of Gettysburg; gave the Mississippi River to the Union | ||
| Banned slavery in the United States | ||
| Demanded a higher amount of people to recognize the Union and slavery; "pocket-vetoed' by Lincoln | ||
| Formally gave black men the right to vote | ||
| President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War | ||
| Confederate General received a nickname after the 1st battle of Bull Run-Lee's Right hand man | ||
| Issued by President Lincoln; technically freed slaves; spurred by Union victory at Antietam | ||
| Union General that led a conquest of Georgia; critical for the reelection of Lincoln | ||
| A primitive welfare agency for newly freed blacks resulted from the Civil War | ||
| laws passed in the Old South which heavily restricted newly freed blacks | ||
| Southerners that were formerly Unionists and Whigs | ||
| First battle of Civil War; Southern Victory | ||
| Ironclad ship battle that signaled the end of the wooded built ships | ||
| General Lee against General Meade; Union victory; signaled last Confederate offensive into Union territory | ||
| Surrender of General Lee to General Grant; end of Civil War | ||
| President resulting from the death of Lincoln | ||
| A bill passed by Radical Republicans that attempted to grant the freedmen citizenship before the 14th amendment was written | ||
| Radical Southern whites who opposed freedom of slaves; lashed out on blacks; often violently | ||
| 1865-1877 | ||
| 1861-1865 | ||
| Union General Commander of the Peninsula Campaign and removed twice from head general position by President Lincoln | ||
| Main Confederate general | ||
| probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy | ||
| was the first significant step toward a unified banking network since 1836 | ||
| Thaddeus Steven's radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted | ||
| issue the Emancipation Proclamation | ||
| strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union | ||
| was removed from his field command | ||
| the civil war | ||
| ensure a stable labor supply | ||
| Atlanta | ||
| used trial and error | ||
| was critical for both | ||
| launched a new national banking system | ||
| Ku Klux Klan | ||
| steamboat captains refused to transport them across the Mississippi | ||
| all were eventually pardoned | ||
| lead tot he capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond | ||
| Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed | ||
| emerged more prosperous than ever before | ||
| economy | ||
| Copperhead | ||
| The Union's discovery of Robert E. Lee's battle plans | ||
| the South would be stronger than ever in national politics | ||
| -The end of slavery -the creation of the first federal social welfare agency -expanded federal powers of taxation -the end of nullification and secession | ||
| the last federal troops were removed in 1877 | ||
| still believed that their view of secession was correct | ||
| Union | ||
| the south attacked Fort Sumter | ||
| discipline and determination | ||
| -The ability to search for lost family -the opportunity to form their own churches -the opportunity for an education -the right to get married | ||
| -blockading the Confederacy's coastline -Marching through Georgia and then the Carolinas -Cutting the Confederacy in half -liberating slaves | ||
| war would weaken the Unites States' power in the western Hemishpere | ||
| fight the invading Union army to a draw | ||
| more talented military leaders | ||
| economy | ||
| intervention from Britain and France | ||
| reduced enlistments in the south's army | ||
| Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Lee's surrender at Appomattox | ||
| the ironclad Merrimack | ||
| states still in rebellion against the United States | ||
| education | ||
| Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau | ||
| citizenship to freed slaves | ||
| passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms | ||
| -scare tactics -beatings -murder -mutilation | ||
| dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton in 1867 | ||
| failed to give women the right to vote | ||
| rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union |
