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| Susan B. Anthony | one of the women associated with the women's suffrage movement before and after the civil war. |
| George McClellan | an early unsuccessuful union commander (He had the slows) |
| Licoln's reconstruction plan | "With malice toward none, with charity for all" |
| confederacy | name given to the groups of states which seceded |
| impeach | process of charging a president with a crime |
| Appomattox | where Lee surrendered to Grant, which ended the civil war |
| Election of Licoln | sparked the scession of the southern states |
| Nat Turner | Led a violent rebellion in Virginia, which resulted in stricter slave codes |
| Jim Crow Era | period when African-American were denied full rights of citizenship |
| Popular Sovereignty | rights of people to vote to decide the issue of slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | event when fighting erupted over the issue of popular sovereignty in the territories |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | the novel that inflamed northern abolitionist sentiment; written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Battle of Antietam | afyer this battle, Licoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Tenant farming & sharecropping | these replaced the old plantation system of farming |
| 15th amendment | voting rights given to free men (former slave) |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes was chosen as president as a compromise to end reconstruction |
| Kansas-Nebraska act | gave people in territories the choice whether to allow slavery in their states-led to violence |
| Fugitive slave act | allowed southerners to hunt for runaway slaves in the north, made it illegal to help slaves escape |
| Jefferson Davis | the president of the confederacy |
| Southern economy | agriculturally-based; consisting of a slavery-based system of plantation |
| Fredrick Douglass | Former slave who spoke against the evils of slavery |
| Reconstruction | attempt to bring the union back together after the civil war |
| Northern economy | industrial-based on manufactruing |
| Republican party | created in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery |
| Balance of power | the drive to be sure that there were equal numbers of slave and free states |
| 14th amendment | Due process and citizenship was given to blacks. |
| Seneca falls declaration | organized statement demanding women's rights, including sufferage |
| Gettysburg address | "That this nation, of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth" |
| Dred Scott | Court ruled that this man was property, not free, and could not be a citizen |
| State's right theory | Idea that states couls nullify national laws. |
| Abraham Licoln | president of the United States during the civil war |
| Grant's presidency | remembered mostly as a series of bungles and corruption |
| John Brown | violent abolitionist associated with bleeding kansas |
| 13th amendment | slavery was abolished in the United States |
| The Liberator | abolitionist paper written by William Lloyd Garrison in the North |
| Abraham Lincoln | He opposed the extension of slavery, but was not an abolistonist |
| Abolitionist | A person who wants to end slavery |
| John Wilkes Booth | The man who shot Abraham Lincoln |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of war |
| Protective Tariffs | made the price of imported manufatured goods so much more expensive |
| Cotton gin | invention which separates from cotton and increased slavery |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | one of the women associated with the women's sufferage movement before and after the the civil war |
| Missouri compromise | an east-west line through the Louisiana purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below |
| Stephen Douglass | he supported popular sovereignty, but disagreed with slavery |
| Robert E. LEE | The primary confederate General who urged quick re-unification |
| sufferage | the right to vote |
| Border state | thses were slave states that stayed loyal to the union |
| compromise of 1850 | California entered as a free state, while the new southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own |
| Radical republicans | congress members who wished for a harsh reconstruction |
| secede | to leave the union |
| William T. Sherman | Union leaders who used a scorched earth policy in his march through Georgia |
| Emancipation Proclamation | this order freed the slaves only in "rebelling" states |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's successor who was impeached |
| Ulysses S. Grant | primary union millitary commander at the end of the war; sucessful after others failed |
| Fort Sumter | where the first shots of the civil war were fired. |
