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Jefferson Davis

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the president of the Confederacy

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Anaconda Plan

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the plan that was made by the U.S. Navy to block southern ports and stop supplies from reaching the South, and divide the South into two by taking the Mississippi River

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U.S. Grant

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the West Point graduate that captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and who was surprised at Shiloh but turned around and came to victory

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Robert E. Lee

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the man that captured John Brown, the man who led the attack on Harper’s Ferry; (He also surrendered to Grant at Appomattox)

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George McClellan

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the strategist that planned Antietam and should have followed Lee when he retreated? This man also ran for president in the election of 1864

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Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

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Lee’s right hand man and was also shot by his own men

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Monitor

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Union ship that went to the battle with an ironclad ship and helped revolutionize naval warfare

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Merrimac

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ironclad Confederate ship was a dangerous to the Union’s ships because the Union’s ships were made of wood

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Sherman's March to the Sea

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title of Sherman’s action when he walked through Georgia burning its cities

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Matthew Brady

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the photographer of the civil war

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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the act that encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges

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Pacific Railroad Act

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act authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad over a northern route in order to link the economies of California and the western territories with the eastern states

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National Bank Act

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act raised money for the Union during the Civil War by enticing banks to buy federal bonds, and taxed state bonds out of existence

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Wade-Davis Bill

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Bill that required 50 percent of the voters of a state to take a loyalty oath and permitted only non-Confederates to vote for a new state Constitution;Lincoln refused to sign the bill but pocket vetoed it

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John Wilkes Booth

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the man who assassinated President Lincoln

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13th Amendment

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abolished slavery

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14th Amendment

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declared that all persons born in the U.S. were citizens and obliged states to give the citizens “equal protection of laws” and “due process of law”

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15th Amendment

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amendment prohibited states from denying a citizen’s right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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act pronounced all African Americans citizens and attempted to provide a shield against the Black Codes

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Andrew Johnson

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the man the succeeded Lincoln and created a Reconstruction proclamation similar to Lincoln’s

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Radical Republicans

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party of people hoped to revolutionize southern society through an extended period of military rule in which blacks would be free to exercise their civil rights

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Freedmen's Bureau

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agency that Congress created to provide food, shelter, and medical aid for those made destitute by the war;This included blacks and poor whites

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Reconstruction Acts (1867)

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act divided the Confederacy into five military sections and increased the requirements of getting into the Union

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Tenant Farms

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was the farm in which people live and farm on but it is owned by a landlord type person. Also sharecropping is usually involved.

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Ku Klux Klan

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“invisible empire” burned black-owned buildings and murdered and flogged freemen to keep them from voting

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Force Acts

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act that was passed by Congress shortly after the Civil War that helped protect the voting rights of African Americans

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Election of 1876

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the year of the election of Rutherford B. Hayes

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Samuel Tilden

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the running mate against Rutherford B. Hayes