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| Fort Sumter | Site of first shot fired in the Civil War |
| Fugitive Slave Act | made it a federal crime to aid runaway slaves |
| Battle of Gettysburg | scene of Picketts charge in which thousands of Confederate soldiers died |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | won the presidential election of 1876 |
| Battle of Bull Run | ended the hopes of North and South for a short war |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | Robert E. Lee's greatest Civil War victory |
| Fifteenth Amendment | gave African American males voting rights |
| sharecropping | system in which an employer provided land, tools, a mule, and a cabin in return for farm labor |
| scalawag | white southerner who supported reconstruction |
| popular sovereignty | system of allowing citizens of district to determine issues by a vote |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorist group active in the South during reconstruction |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Novel about slavery's cruelities |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| March to the Sea | Destructive march across Georgia led by General Sherman |
| carpetbagger | Northerner who went south to participate in Reconstruction |
| Battle of Shiloh | forced the north to aknowledge that the rebellion would not collapse on its own |
| Abraham Lincoln | Born in 1809 in a one-room cabin near Louisville, Kentucky |
| John Brown | sentenced to death for capturing the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| Compromise of 1850 | dropped the Missouri Compromise's ban on slavery |
| Lincoln-Douglas debates | focused national attention on senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln |
