| A | B |
|---|
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th amendment | defined citizenship; equal protection clause |
| 15th amendment | black male suffrage |
| carpetbagger | Northerner who moved to the South |
| conscription | military draft |
| Freedmen's Bureau | federal agency set up to assist freed slaves |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorist organization; wanted to restore white supremacy in the South |
| popular sovereignty | residents vote to decide an issue |
| Reconstruction | period of rebuilding following the Civil War |
| scalawag | white Southerner who joined the Republican party |
| secession | formal withdrawal of a state from the Union |
| sharecropping | landowners rent land in return for part of crop |
| Underground Railroad | system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape north |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book by Harriet Beecher Stowe; changed public opinion against slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | "Moses" of her people; led slaves on Undergorund Railroad |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for freedom |
| Jefferson Davis | president of Confederacy |
| Stephen Douglas | Senator from IL; promoted popular sovereignty |
| John Brown | abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry |
| Bull Run | VA; site of 1st major battle; a Confederate victory |
| Ft. Sumter | federal fort in SC; attacked by Confederate forces started Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | head of Union forces during Civil War; US President |
| Robert E. Lee | head of Confederate army |
| Emancipation Proclomation | freed slaves in Confederacy |
| Gettysburg | PA battle that was turning point of war |
| Vicksburg | MS battle for control of Mississippi River |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general; practiced total war |
| Appomattox | VA; site of Lee's surrender |
| John Wilkes Booth | Southern sympathizer; assassinated Lincoln |
| Radical Republicans | group of radical Northern Republicans in Congress |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's VP; diasgreed with Congress over Reconstruction |
| Redeemers | Southern Democrats who wanted to remove Reconstruction gov'ts in south |
| Jim Crow laws | laws passed in Southern state that required racial segregation |
