| A | B |
|---|
| border state | slave states that did not suceede |
| neutral | not favoring either side |
| material law | when military is in charge of citizens |
| blockade | military action to prevent coming or going |
| ironclad | warships covered with protective iron plates |
| george McClellan | a union general |
| casuality | persons or wounded and people MIA |
| grant | southern general |
| emancipate | to free |
| greeley | abolistionist news editor |
| habeus courpus | protection against un lawful prisonment |
| draft | system to get soldiers |
| income tax | tax on money people recive |
| inflation | rise in prices |
| siege | to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces |
| sherman | union general led shermans march to the sea |
| total war | all out attacks |
| linclon | president during and after the civil war |
| amenesty | overlooking of violations of an existing law |
| freedman | formally enslaved people |
| wilkes booth | murder of abe linclon |
| jhonson | president after linclon |
| black codes | new laws used by southern states to control african americans |
| hiram revels | house rep |
| bruce | house rep |
| scalawag | southern whites who opposed sucession |
| carppetbagger | northern whites who went to the south to pusue a career |
| impeachment | formal charges against a public official |
| poll tax | to be taxed on voting |
| literacy test | to see if a person can read or write |
| grand father clause | if father or grandfather were elligable tio vote they could skip the test |
| segragation | enforced separation of races |
| homer plessy | starter of segragated cars |
| sharecropper | worker who works the land for a farmer getting a shared profit |
