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  • Poll tax
    Personal fee required prior to voting; used in the past to restrict voting rights.
  • Arsenal
    A collection or supply of weapons or munitions.
  • Gettysburg
    A large battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. Turning Point for North
  • Carpetbaggers
    Uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to start a business or pursue a political career.
  • Scalawags
    Southern whites who had opposed secession.
  • Segregation
    Enforced separation based on race.
  • Civil War
    War between people within the same country.
  • Propaganda
    False or misleading information that is spread to further a cause
  • Ku Klux Klan
    a secret organization in the southern U.S which aimed to suppress and terrorize African Americans.
  • Amnesty
    Government pardon.
  • Black codes
    Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
  • Strategy
    The overall plan or method of a military operation to achieve victory.
  • Emancipate
    To set free; liberate.
  • Nullify
    To cancel a federal law.
  • Total War
    All-out attacks aimed at destroying not only an enemy's army but also its resources and people's will to fight.
  • Siege
    Military blockade or bombardment of and enemy town or position to force it to surrender.
  • Blockade
    Shutting a port or roadway to prevent people or supplies from coming into or leaving an area.
  • Draw
    A tie.
  • Impeachment
    Process of bringing formal charges against a public official.
  • Popular Sovereignty
    People decide through voting whether to be a slave or free territory.
  • Massacre
    A general slaughter of people.
  • Sharecropper
    Person who rents a plot of land and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.
  • Draft
    System of required military service.
  • Underground Railroad
    A network of people, both black and white, northerners and southerners, who secretly helped slaves escape.
  • Habeas Corpus
    Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
  • Fifteenth amendment
    Guaranteed voting rights to former male slaves.
  • Separate but equal
    Legal doctrine (1896-1954) which allowed segregation as long as facilities and accommodations were "equal."
  • Tariff
    Tax on foreign goods.
  • Emancipation Proclamation
    Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free
  • Bull Run/Manassas
    First major battle of the war; picnic battle
  • Vicksburg
    Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.
  • Tactics
    The maneuvers of a military operation.
  • Assassination of Lincoln
    Lincoln shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth five days after Confederate surrender
  • Appomattox Court House
    Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
  • Freedman
    Term for former slaves during Reconstruction.
  • Confederacy
    The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860-61.
  • Fourteenth amendment
    Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection of the laws to former slaves.
  • Unconditional
    Not limited by conditions (restrictions and/or circumstances).
  • Antietam (Sharpsburg)
    (September 17, 1862). The bloodiest day of the Civil War: 12,000 Union men lost their lives, as did 10,000 Confederates.
  • Thirteenth amendment
    Abolished slavery in the U.S.Abolition The desire to end slavery.
  • Turning Point
    Point (event/battle) at which a war changes direction.
  • Casualties
    Loss in numerical strength through death, wounds, sickness, capture or desertion.
  • Border States
    Slave states that remained part of the Union during the Civil War.
  • Morality
    Conformity to the rules of right conduct as accepted by society.
  • Literacy test
    Examination to determine whether a person could read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights.
  • Rifling
    Spiral grooves in a gun barrel to improve accuracy.
  • Radical Republicans
    Members of Congress who sought harsh treatment of the South after the war.
  • Union
    The states that did not secede during the Civil War (North, border slave states and west).
  • Assassination
    Politically motivated murder.
  • Compromise
    Agreement in which each side gives up part of what it wants to end a disagreement.
  • Secede
    To break away fromthe Union
  • Jim Crow
    A practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against African Americans.
  • Ironclads
    Warships covered with protective iron plates.
  • Fugitive
    Runaway.
  • Monitor vs. Merrimack
    First Battle of the Ironclads (ships covered in iron plates)Neither side could claim a victory.
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