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| Election of Lincoln | Sparked the Secession of the Southern States |
| Confederacy | Name given to the groups of states attempting to secede |
| Ft. Sumter | Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
| secession | the act of leaving the Union |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the war |
| Battle of Antietem | After this battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Appomattox | Where Lee surrendered to Grant, which ended the Civil War |
| Robert E. Lee | The primary Confederate General who urged quick re-unification |
| Abraham Lincoln | president of the United States during the Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Primary Union military commander at end of war after others failed |
| George McClellan | One of the early failed Union Commanders (he had the "slows") |
| William T. Sherman | Union leader who used a scorched earth policy in his march through Georgia |
| Jefferson Davis | The President of the Confederacy |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave and abolitionist who pushed for using black troops in the Union |
| John Wilkes Booth | The man who shot Abraham Lincoln |
| Emancipation Proclamation | This order freed the slaves only in "rebelling" states |
| Border States | These were slave states that stayed loyal to the Union |
| Gettysburg Address | "That this nation, of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth" |
| Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan | With malice toward none, with charity for all... |
| Radical Republicans | Congress members who wished for harsh reconstruction |
| Reconstruction | Attempt to bring the Union back together after the Civil War |
| Grant's Presidency | Remembered mostly as series of bungles and corruption |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's successor who was impeached |
| Impeach | Process of charging a President of a crime and attempting to remove from office |
| 13th Amendment | Slavery was abolished in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | Due process and citizenship was given to blacks |
| 15th Amendment | Voting rights given to freed MEN (former slaves) |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes was chosen as President as compromise to end Reconstruction |
| Jim Crow Era | period when African-Americans were denied full rights of citizenship |
| Tenant Farming and Sharecropping | These replaced the old plantation system of farming |
