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| the process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War |
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| laws passed by Southern states after teh Civil War that limited teh freedom of formerly enslaved people |
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| commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and overall commander of Confederate forces |
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| Civil War nurse who later founded the American Red Cross |
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| Union war plan to blockade all Southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River |
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| the first major battle of the Civil War; won by the Confederacy |
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| single bloodiest day of Civil War; neither side won a clear victory |
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| Emancipation Proclamantion |
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| President Lincoln's announcement freeing all enslaved persons in the Confederate states |
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| one of the costliest battles of the Civil War; won by the Union |
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| fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, whose bombardment marked the beginnin of the Civil War |
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| a series of hiding places forming the route to freedom for African Americans fleeing slavery |
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| a system in which people are required to serve in the military |
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| the first American woman to graduate from mediacl school |
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| laid siege to the important town of Vicksburg, Mississippi |
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| Union general who attacked Lee |
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| succeeded Ellis as governor |
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| a Captian who narrowly escaped the Union |
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| A Confederate ironclad ship that was a threat to Union control of the coastal waters |
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| the fort that protected Wilmington and kept its port open longer than any other Confederate port |
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| the bloodiest Cival War battle in North Carolina; won by the Union |
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| a federal agency set up in 1865 to help both whites and African Americans in the South |
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| 1870 constitutional amendment declaring that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Cival War |
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| Civial Rights Act of 1871 |
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| law taht gave Americans the right to sue anyone trying to restrict their constitutional rights |
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| incident in which Colonel Geroge W. Kirk and his army of followers imprisoned men suspected to be members of the Ku Klux Klan |
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| president who ended Reconstruction in 1877 |
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| a law set forth by a governmental authority |
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| holding a political view that calls for extreme change |
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| a change in a bill or law |
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| Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
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| a plan created by Lincoln whereby all but a few Soutehrners invloed in teh Civil War were to be offered a full pardon |
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| became president when Lincoln was assassinated |
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| constituional amendment that outlawed slavery throughout the US |
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| Joint Committee on Reconstruction |
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| a congressional committee formed to draw up a Reconstruction plan to replace that of President Johnson |
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| the 1868 constitutional amendment declaring that all citiens have the same rights whether they are native-born or naturalized |
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| to charge a public official with wrongdoing |
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| the 1870 constitutional amendment declaring that the right ot vote may not be denied "on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." |
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| a dishonest person; a derogatory name given to any Southerner who aided Reconstruction |
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| the incident in which Governor holden called out the militia under George W. Kirk to restrain the activites o fthe Ku Klux Klan |
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