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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+ ,% defineeach term listed and $%

eplain its significance/ importanceto the topic bein& studied in this unit%

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1. Secession The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to

the Civil War.

2. 4opular soverei&nty The principle that the authorit of the government is created and

sustained ! the consent of its people.

". Con'ederacy #riginall formed ! seven slave states in the $ower %outh region of the

United %tates whose regional econom was mostl dependent upon agriculture.

&. "mancipation 4roclamation '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 The !loodiest single da !attle in *merican militar histor. +t ended with a

Union victor, though !oth sides too heav losses.

6. 5ettysbur& 0ddress -ade the proposition that all men are created eual. +t was to tr

to reunite *merica and never distinguished !etween Union and Confederac.

/. 6ort Sumter +t started the civil war and was the first militar action of the civil war.8. 0ppomatto Courthouse +ts what ended the civil war when after & ears of war, the

Confederates finall surrendered.

. Reconstruction The transformation of the %outhern United %tates from 186" to 18//,

as directed ! Congress, with the reconstruction of state and societ.

10. 6reedmen7s )ureau * U.%. federal government agenc that aided distressed freedmen

freed slaves3 during the 4econstruction era of the United %tates.

11. Wade Davis )ill * !ill proposed for the 4econstruction of the %outh written ! two

4adical 4epu!licans, %enator 5enamin Wade of #hio and 4epresentative 7enr

Winter avis of -arland.

12. Scala#a& %outhern whites who supported 4econstruction and the 4epu!lican

'art after the *merican Civil War.

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1". Carpetba&&er * 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& * 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 *!olished slaver and involuntar servitude, e(cept as

punishment for a crime.

16. 6ourteenth 0mendment *ddresses citi:enship rights and eual protection of the laws,

and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the *merican

Civil War.

1/. 6i'teenth 0mendment 'rohi!its the federal and state governments from dening a

citi:en the right to vote !ased on that citi:en;s

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2/. :u :lu :lan 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.