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| 13398566813 | civil war | Conflict between opposing groups of citizens in the same country. |  | 0 |
| 13398575631 | Confederacy/Confederate States of America | the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union. |  | 1 |
| 13398583442 | Union | Refers to the United States of America specifically during the Civil War. |  | 2 |
| 13398588481 | State's Rights- | Rights and powers independent of the federal government, reserved for the states by the constitution. |  | 3 |
| 13398592891 | Secede- | - to leave or withdraw |  | 4 |
| 13398601890 | Rebel- | a person who refuses to obey orders or the law |  | 5 |
| 13398605786 | Yankee- | Union soldier |  | 6 |
| 13398609102 | Blockade | a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy |  | 7 |
| 13398609103 | Emancipate | to set free |  | 8 |
| 13398616478 | Abraham Lincoln- | 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) |  | 9 |
| 13398622207 | Jefferson Davis- | President of the Confederates States during the Civil War. |  | 10 |
| 13398631634 | Ulysses S. Grant- | 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. |  | 11 |
| 13398635423 | Robert E. Lee- | - Commanding general of the Confederate States during the Civil War. |  | 12 |
| 13398644617 | Stonewall Jackson | Brave commander of the Confederate Army that led troops at Bull Run. He died in the confusion at the Battle of Chancellorsville. |  | 13 |
| 13398648691 | William Carney | Was born a slave an enlisted in the Union army. First African American to receive the Medal of Honor. |  | 14 |
| 13398657377 | Phillip Bazaar | - Chilean immigrant who served in the US Navy. Awarded a Medal of Honor for bravery. |  | 15 |
| 13398662938 | Julia Ward Howe | Wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic |  | 16 |
| 13398670154 | 13th Amendment- | abolished slavery |  | 17 |
| 13398670155 | 14th Amendment- | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |  | 18 |
| 13398673516 | 15th Amendment | Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude |  | 19 |
| 13398677851 | Freedmen | A person freed from slavery |  | 20 |
| 13398689424 | Sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. |  | 21 |
| 13398692265 | Black Codes | Laws passed in the South, after the Civil War, aimed at controlling freedman and |  | 22 |
| 13398698663 | Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed in the South that required African Americans and whites to be |  | 23 |
| 13398702915 | Reconstruction | the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate States of America. |  | 24 |
| 13398713197 | Nullify | (v.) to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out |  | 25 |
| 13398720216 | Radical Republicans- | After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. |  | 26 |
| 13398713250 | Tenant farmers | A poor farmer who did not own land and had to live on and work the land of others, either for wages or a share of the crop they produced |  | 27 |
| 13398727308 | Carpetbaggers | A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states |  | 28 |
| 13398727309 | Scallywag | were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War. |  | 29 |