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The Civil War & Reconstruction
American History Vocabulary
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10/30/2003

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Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Definition
a law ordering all citizens of the United states to assist in the return of slaves
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Copperheads
Definition
anti-war northern Democrats
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
presidential decree affective January 1, 1863, that freed slaves in the Confederate states
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Anaconda plan
Definition
the term used to refer to the Union strategy of surrounding the enemy and crushing them to death (defeat)
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13th Amendment
Definition
abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
Definition
equal protection of law for all citizens
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Jefferson Davis
Definition
president of the Confederate States of America
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Secession
Definition
with draw from Union / organization
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Tax-in-kind
Definition
tax paid with goods rather than money
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Brilliant general of the Confederate forces during Civil War
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Martial Law
Definition
emergancy rule by military authority
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Civil War
Definition
war between people of same country
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Appomattox Courthouse
Definition
small town in Virginia where Grant and Lee sighned the surrender that end the war
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greenback
Definition
green colored national currency that was created because of the nations banking reformation by Congress
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war of attrition
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a war where one side inflicts continuous losses on the enemy in order to wear them out
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siege
Definition
tatic where the enemy is surrounded and starved in order to make it surrender
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contraband
Definition
items siezed from enemy during war time
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15th Amendment
Definition
voting rights for African Americans
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Reconstruction
Definition
federal government's effort between 1865 and 1877 to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore southern states to the Union
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
provided food and clothing to former slaves and helped poor whites as well...provided medical care, sent agents into the south to setup schools
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
agreement in which the Democrates agreed to give Ruthford B. Hayes the victory in the presidential election of 1876, but Hayes had to remove remaining federal troops from the Southern states
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Samuel Tilden
Definition
against Ruthford B. Hayes in the disputed election of 1876
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black codes
Definition
laws that restricted the rights of freed men's rights
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Ruthford B. Hayes
Definition
19th President, promised to withdraw remaining federal troops from Southern states as a condition to help him win the victory to become president instead of Samuel Tilden
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Radical Republicans
Definition
group that opposed reconstruction ideas because they believed that the Civil war had been fought over slavery. Therefore the goal of reconstruction should be a total reconstruction of society to guarantee equality
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scalawag
Definition
white southern Republican following the Civil War
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
secret group first setup in the South after the Civil war. Members terrorized blacks and others they hated
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carpetbagger
Definition
Northern Republican who moved to the south after the Civil War
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sharecropper
Definition
farmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner a share of the crop
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poll tax
Definition
special fee a person must pay in order to vote
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literacy test
Definition
examination to see if a person can read and write
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segregation
Definition
forced separation
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grandfather clause
Definition
passage that exempts a group of people from obeying a law if they met certain conditions before the law was passed
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