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| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 |
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| a law ordering all citizens of the United states to assist in the return of slaves |
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| anti-war northern Democrats |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| presidential decree affective January 1, 1863, that freed slaves in the Confederate states |
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| the term used to refer to the Union strategy of surrounding the enemy and crushing them to death (defeat) |
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| equal protection of law for all citizens |
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| president of the Confederate States of America |
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| with draw from Union / organization |
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| tax paid with goods rather than money |
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| Brilliant general of the Confederate forces during Civil War |
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| emergancy rule by military authority |
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| war between people of same country |
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| small town in Virginia where Grant and Lee sighned the surrender that end the war |
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| green colored national currency that was created because of the nations banking reformation by Congress |
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| a war where one side inflicts continuous losses on the enemy in order to wear them out |
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| tatic where the enemy is surrounded and starved in order to make it surrender |
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| items siezed from enemy during war time |
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| voting rights for African Americans |
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| federal government's effort between 1865 and 1877 to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore southern states to the Union |
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| provided food and clothing to former slaves and helped poor whites as well...provided medical care, sent agents into the south to setup schools |
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| agreement in which the Democrates agreed to give Ruthford B. Hayes the victory in the presidential election of 1876, but Hayes had to remove remaining federal troops from the Southern states |
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| against Ruthford B. Hayes in the disputed election of 1876 |
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| laws that restricted the rights of freed men's rights |
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| 19th President, promised to withdraw remaining federal troops from Southern states as a condition to help him win the victory to become president instead of Samuel Tilden |
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| group that opposed reconstruction ideas because they believed that the Civil war had been fought over slavery. Therefore the goal of reconstruction should be a total reconstruction of society to guarantee equality |
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| white southern Republican following the Civil War |
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| secret group first setup in the South after the Civil war. Members terrorized blacks and others they hated |
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| Northern Republican who moved to the south after the Civil War |
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| farmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner a share of the crop |
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| special fee a person must pay in order to vote |
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| examination to see if a person can read and write |
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| passage that exempts a group of people from obeying a law if they met certain conditions before the law was passed |
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