Humphrey United States History

Unit 3- The Civil War and Reconstruction

Vocabulary IDs
Directions! "ach ID belo# is #orth $ points% To &et 'ull points ma(e sure you complete
)*TH o' the parts o' an ID% Usin& complete sentences+ ,% define each term listed and $%
e-plain its significance/ importance to the topic bein& studied in this unit%
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1. Secession 3 The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to
the Civil War.
2. 4opular soverei&nty 3 The principle that the authorit of the government is created and
sustained ! the consent of its people.
". Con'ederacy 3 #riginall formed ! seven slave states in the $ower %outh region of the
United %tates whose regional econom was mostl dependent upon agriculture.
&. "mancipation 4roclamation 3 'roclaimed the freedom of slaves in the eleven states that
were still in re!ellion, e(cluding areas controlled ! the Union and thus appling to "
million of the & million slaves in the U.%. at the time.
). 0ntietam 3 The !loodiest single da !attle in *merican militar histor. +t ended with a
Union victor, though !oth sides too, heav losses.
6. 5ettysbur& 0ddress 3 -ade the proposition that all men are created e.ual. +t was to tr
to reunite *merica and never distinguished !etween Union and Confederac.
/. 6ort Sumter 3 +t started the civil war and was the first militar action of the civil war.
8. 0ppomatto- Courthouse 3 +t0s what ended the civil war when after & ears of war, the
Confederates finall surrendered.
1. Reconstruction 3 The transformation of the %outhern United %tates from 186" to 18//,
as directed ! Congress, with the reconstruction of state and societ.
10. 6reedmen7s )ureau 3 * U.%. federal government agenc that aided distressed freedmen
2freed slaves3 during the 4econstruction era of the United %tates.
11. Wade Davis )ill 3 * !ill proposed for the 4econstruction of the %outh written ! two
4adical 4epu!licans, %enator 5en6amin Wade of #hio and 4epresentative 7enr
Winter 8avis of -arland.
12. Scala#a& 3 %outhern whites who supported 4econstruction and the 4epu!lican
'art after the *merican Civil War.
1". Carpetba&&er 3 * 9ortherner who moved to the %outh after the U.%. Civil War,
especiall during the 4econstruction era, in order to profit from the insta!ilit and power
vacuum.
1&. Sharecroppin& 3 * sstem of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the
land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
1). Thirteenth 0mendment 3 *!olished slaver and involuntar servitude, e(cept as
punishment for a crime.
16. 6ourteenth 0mendment 3 *ddresses citi:enship rights and e.ual protection of the laws,
and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the *merican
Civil War.
1/. 6i'teenth 0mendment 3 'rohi!its the federal and state governments from dening a
citi:en the right to vote !ased on that citi:en;s <race, color, or previous condition of
servitude<.
18. Harriet )eecher Sto#e 3 Wrote =Uncle Tom0s Ca!in>, which !rought worldwide
attention to the growing crisis of slaver in the U.%. +t also showed the horrors of slaver.
11. Dred Scott 3 *n enslaved *frican *merican man in the United %tates who
unsuccessfull sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters.
20. 0braham 8incoln 3 The 16
th
president of the United %tates. 7e led the United %tates
through its Civil War?its !loodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and
political crisis. +n doing so, he preserved the Union, a!olished slaver, strengthened the
federal government, and moderni:ed the econom.
21. Clara )arton 3 * pioneer nurse who founded the *merican 4ed Cross.
22. 9e''erson Davis 3 *n *merican soldier and politician, and 'resident of the Confederac.
2". Robert "% 8ee 3 *n *merican soldier !est ,nown for commanding the
Confederate *rm of 9orthern @irginia in the *merican Civil War from 1862 until his
surrender in 186).
2&. 9ohn Wil(es )ooth 3 *n *merican stage actor who assassinated 'resident *!raham
$incoln at Aord;s Theatre.
2). Radical Republicans 3 * faction of *merican politicians within the 4epu!lican 'art
from !efore the *merican Civil War until the end of 4econstruction in 18//.
26. Ulysses S% 5rant 3 The 18
th
'resident of the United %tates. 7e led the Union *rmies to
victor over the Confederac in the *merican Civil War, which ended shortl
after 4o!ert B. $ee surrendered to him at *ppomatto(.
2/. :u :lu- :lan 3 The name of three distinct movements in the United %tates. The first
plaed a violent role against *frican *mericans in the %outh during the 4econstruction
Bra. The second was a ver large controversial nationwide organi:ation.