| A | B |
|---|
| scalawags | Southerners who helped the government during reconstruction |
| strengths of South | 1. good leaders 2. most fighting there |
| strengths of the North | 1.22 million people lived there 2. more factories |
| Battle of Vicksburg | union now controlled the Mississippi River |
| Sherman's "March to the Sea" | burned everything he could |
| Why did General Lee surrender? | Southern army was starving |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed the slaves |
| General Sherman's strategy | cut off supplies |
| Appomattox Court House | Lee surrendered to Grant |
| popular sovereignty | the right for people to make political decisions themselves |
| Underground railroad | helped slave runaway during slavery |
| 13th Amendment | ended slavery |
| 14th Amendment | can't limit rights of civilians |
| 15th Amendment | guaranteed all men could vote including African American men |
| Freedman's Bureau | helped African Americans by providing hospitals, food, clothing, schools and advice |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of Confederacy |
| Ulyssses S. Grant | Commander of Union Army |
| Jefferson Davis | president of Confederacy |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President, issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| William T. Sherman | used total war to make South surrender |
| John Wilkes Booth | Actor, assassinated Lincoln |
| Andrew Jackson | 17th President; impeached and acquitted |
| Jim Crow | nickname for laws that kept African Americans segregated |
| Booker T. Washington | President of the Tuskegee Institute |
| Rutherford Hayes | ended Reconstruction and ordered soldiers to leave the South |
| casualties | soldiers who were killed or wounded |
| assassination | murder of an important leader |
| civilian | person who isn't in the military |
| Reconstruction | period when the South rejoined the Union |
| draft | government selects people to serve in the military |
| desert | to leave an army without permission |
| sharecropping | poor farmers used a landowner's field. In return, the landowner loaned sharecroppers tools and seeds |
| carpetbaggers | wanted to make money from helping South rebuild |
| impeach | charge a government official with a crime |
