3/18/19

TEST THURSDAY (3-21-19)

Total war – all-out war to destroy people’s ability and will to fight

Emancipation Proclamation – ended slavery in the Confederacy

Gettysburg Address – famous speech by Abraham Lincoln

Civil War – Union vs. Confederates

Anaconda Plan – Union’s plan for victory

Blockade – to block off

Reconstruction – rebuilding the South

Segregation – separation of people by race

14^th Amendment – guarantees all male citizens the same legal rights

Jim Crow Laws – made the separation of white and black people legal

13^th Amendment – abolished slavery

Ku Klux Klan – former Confederate officers that terrorized African Americans

15^th Amendment – all males can vote regardless of race

Carpetbaggers – Northerners who started a business in the South

Black Codes – described the rights and duties of freed African Americans

Impeach – charge a government official with wrongdoing

Sharecropping – rent land and give part of their crops as rent

Ulysses S. Grant – main general Union Army

Robert E. Lee – main general Confederate Army

Abraham Lincoln – President of the Union

Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederacy

54^th Massachusetts – first African American regiment

Merrimack – Confederate Ironclad ship

Monitor – Union Ironclad ship

Fort Sumter – 1^st battle, 34 hours, 0 dead

Most people thought the war would last a few short months.

TJ Jackson – “Stonewall”

Great Skedaddle – Union retreat at Bull Run

Draft – men age 20 – 45 were chosen to fight in the war

Appomattox Courthouse – place where Lee surrendered to Grant

Between 620,000 and 680,000 people died during the Civil War.