Chapter 14 Terms

Richmond, Virginia - Capital of the Confederacy

Fredericksburg - Where Lee and Jackson defeated Burnside's Union troops

Vicksburg - The West fell into Union hands when General Grant seized this city; served as a supply port on the Mississippi

Appomattox Court House, Virginia - Served as a meeting place for Lee’s surrender

Tuskegee Institute - School founded by Booker T. Washington; the most innovative educational institution for Black Americans

Compromise of 1850 - Would resolve several disputes between North and South

Underground Railroad - A series of secret routes leading North that helped enslaved people escape from the South

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Dramatized the cruelty of slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act - Created two new states, Kansas and Nebraska, with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty

Civil War - Began when the first shot was fired by the Confederates

Anaconda Plan - The Union's strategy to blockade and divide the Confederacy

Emancipation Proclamation - Declared the freedom of enslaved people in states that had seceded from the Union

Gettysburg Address - Given by Lincoln in a three-minute speech

Reconstruction Era - A difficult time period for America following the Civil War

13th Amendment - This amendment outlawed slavery

Freedmen’s Bureau - Provided relief for both Black and White Americans who lost everything in the war

14th Amendment - Made freedmen citizens of the United States and attempted to safeguard their civil rights

Reconstruction Act of 1867 - Divided the former Confederacy into five military districts and appointed military officers with broad powers to govern each district

Ku Klux Klan - A secret society notorious for violence and cruelty toward freedmen

15th Amendment - Prohibited the states from denying the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Compromise of 1877 - Agreement that ended Reconstruction in the South