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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

Abraham Lincoln President of the Union during the Civil War

Civil War ABC Project

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

Black codes Law passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of the former slaves

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

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