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Reconstruction
Harsh post Civil War period;North tried to make south pay for expense and destruction of War
John Wilkes Boothe
Pro-South fanatic who assassinated Lincoln on April 14,1865 at Ford's Theater in Washington,D.C.
Quartermaster
is one of two different military occupations
Sojourner Truth AKA Isabella Baumfree
African-American speaker for women's rights and abolition; gave a speech entitled "ain't I a Woman?"
Emancipation Proclamation Document signed by Abraham Lincoln Freeing the slaves in the "rebellious states" in 1863
Industrial revolution in the late 18th- centry Britain, factory machines begane replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work
Kansas-Nebraska act allowed citizens of KS & NE to decide if they would be slave free (popular sovereignty);led to "bleeding Kansas"
Daniel Webster Senator from Massachusetts; He supported the Union and the Compromise of 1850
Thomas Jackson
Popular sovereignty
idea that people vote on slavery issue in a territory or a state
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Series of debates Abe Lincoln & Stephen Douglas over slavery
Fort Sumter First battle of the Civil War; April 1861 South Carolina
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin;Increased awareness of"evils of slavery"and Fugitive Slave Act
By Hunter W.
Confederate States of America
Name for the 11 Southern States that seceded from the U.S.;grey uniforms AKA Rebels
Ordnance could mean weapons and ammo
Monitor was a united states iron ship built during the civil war
Gettysburg Address Lincoln's speech to dedicate a cemetery in memory of those that died at the battle of Gettysburg
North the union part of the united states that did not secede from U.S