Hist. Final

Front 1

Battle of Bull Run
(First Battle of Manassas)

Back 1

Railroad Junction
South pretended to be N. soldiers
It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.

Front 2

Paroll Agreement

Back 2

Put civial to end

Front 3

Jefferson Davis

Back 3

the President of the Confederate States of America

Front 4

Black Codes

Back 4

Laws passed on the state and local level in the United States to limit the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.

Front 5

Andrew Johnson

Back 5

The 17th President of the United States (1865–1869). Following the assassination of President Lincoln

Front 6

General Oliver O. Howard

Back 6

General Howard was commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees

Front 7

14th amendment

Back 7

Citizenship to slaves

Front 8

Robert E. Lee

Back 8

Served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee's first field command for the Confederate States came in June 1862 when he took command of the Confederate forces in the East

Front 9

Appomattox Court House

Back 9

where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the War Between the States.

Front 10

Thaddeus Stevens

Back 10

was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives.
Radical Republicans

Front 11

13th Amendment

Back 11

Abolished Slavery

Front 12

Siege of Peters

Back 12

The campaign was nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully
Crater

Front 13

George McClellan

Back 13

a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army.
Despised Lincolon

Front 14

Hard Tack

Back 14

Hard food eaten by soldiers
Durable

Front 15

Anaconda Plan

Back 15

an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.

Front 16

Fort Sumptner

Back 16

the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.

Front 17

CSA

Back 17

Confederate States of America
VA, capitol

Front 18

15th

Back 18

Freed Salves
Right to vote

Front 19

Battle of Shiloh

Back 19

Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack against the Union Army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day but were ultimately defeated on the second day.

Front 20

Peterson's House

Back 20

Boarding house where Abe died

Front 21

Freedmans Bureau

Back 21

established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed black Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom. Headed by Major General Oliver O. Howard

Front 22

Battle of Antietam

Back 22

was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties

Front 23

Emancipation Proc.

Back 23

Declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America

Front 24

Carpet Bagger

Back 24

a negative term Southerners gave to opportunistic Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era

Front 25

Scalawags

Back 25

a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.

Front 26

Army Appropriations act

Back 26

Any president wouldn't be able to remove any officer w/o approval of senate

Front 27

Tenure of Office act

Back 27

provided that all federal officials whose appointment required Senate confirmation could not be removed without the consent of the Senate.

Front 28

Edwin Stanton

Back 28

Johnson's attempt to dismiss Stanton led the House of Representatives to impeach him.
Spy in congress

Front 29

Impeachment of Johnson

Back 29

First President to be impeached
Trial concluded on May 16 with Johnson's acquittal, the final count falling one vote shy of the required tally for conviction.
Edmund Ross

Front 30

Ku Klux Klan

Back 30

Formed in TN
Goal was to not allow any blacks to hold power in old fed. states
Nathan Bedford Forrest

Front 31

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Back 31

was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years. He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization which launched a "reign of terror" against blacks and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South.

Front 32

Transcontinental Railroad

Back 32

a railroad line built in the United States between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected

Front 33

Paddies

Back 33

Irish Immigrants that worked on the Union Pacific railroad

Front 34

Coolies

Back 34

Chinese immigrants that worked on the central pacific railroad
Central was rougher

Front 35

Horace Greeley

Back 35

was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician.

Front 36

Jay Gould/Jim Fisk

Back 36

Gould and Fisk began to buy gold in an attempt to corner the market

Front 37

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Back 37

The railroad's major stockholders created Crédit Mobilier of America to divert its construction profits and gave or sold stock to influential politicians in return for favours

Front 38

Homestead Act

Back 38

gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres (1/4 section, 65 hectares) of undeveloped federal land outside the original 13 colonies. The law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title.

Front 39

Grant Peace Policy

Back 39

Indians were required ti relocate to reservations
If done peacefully, they would be taken care of

Front 40

Little Big Horn

Back 40

263 soldiers, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer and attached personnel of the U.S. Army, died fighting several thousand Lakota, and Cheyenne warriors.

Front 41

George A. Cluster

Back 41

a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Today he is most remembered for a disastrous military engagement known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Front 42

Sitting Bull

Back 42

a Sioux holy man who led his people as a war chief during years of resistance to United States government policies.

Front 43

Crazy Horse

Back 43

a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He fought against the U.S. federal government to preserve the land and traditions of the Lakota way of life, participating in the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Front 44

Rutherford B. Hayes

Back 44

Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876. Losing the popular vote to his opponent, Samuel Tilden, Hayes was the only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission

Front 45

Congressional Commision

Back 45

a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed United States presidential election of 1876. It consisted of 15 members.

Front 46

Bargain of 1877

Back 46

The removal of all Federal troops from the former Confederate States. (Troops only remained in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, but the Compromise finalized the process.)
The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes' cabinet. (David M. Key of Tennessee became Postmaster General.) Hayes had already promised this.
The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the South (this had been part of the "Scott Plan," proposed by Thomas A. Scott, which initiated the process that led to the final compromise).
Legislation to help industrialize the South.

Front 47

William T. Sherman

Back 47

He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Total War

Front 48

William T. Sherman

Back 48

He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Total War