1861-1877

  • Emancipation proclamation

    • He had been waiting for Union victory so he could announce proclamation

  • Shermans march

    • Large union campaign, marching from Atlanata to Georgia

  • Union and Central pacific

    • 2 major companies in building trans continetal RR

  • Homestead act of 1862

    • Could claim 160 acres of land

    • Land was usually rough

  • 13th amendment

    • Forbids slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control

  • 14th amendment

    • `granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War

  • 15th amendment

    • the right to vote cannot be based on race, color, or condition of previous servitude

  • Election of 1876

    • 20 votes disputed over 4 states

    • 15 man commission

    • Hayes wins

  • Compromise of of 1877

    • Hayes takes office

    • Republicans withdraw troops

  • Anaconda Plan

    • Take control of Mississippi river region to cut Confederacy in half

  • Winfield Scott

    • Wrote Annaconda plan

  • George McClellan

    • Unions first general

    • Super cautious 

  • Peninsula Campaign

    • Push the Union army up the peninsula

  • USG

    • Lead 2 major wins for the Union, Henry & Donelson

    • Known as the “butcher”

  • Battle of Shiloh

    • Tennesee, major turning point in war

  • 1862 Battle of Antietam

    • This was the battle Lincol was waiting on

  • Matthew Brady

    • Photographer of the Civil War

  • NY race/draft riots

    • result of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation

  • National bank act

    • allowed the creation of national banks, set out a plan for establishing a national currency

  • Trans-Continental RR Act

    • designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route and gave huge grants of lands for rights-of-way

  • Morrill Tariff 

    • high import duties not for the traditional purpose of national revenue but to protect American industry from overseas competition.

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    • halting General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North and leading to significant Confederate losses.

  • Battle Vicksburg

    • completed the anaconda plan

  • Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction

    • To restore Southern states to the Union

  • 10% olan

    • 10% of the voters in a Confederate state take loyalty oath and they are back in the union

  • Wade Davis Bill 1864

    • Lincoln pocket vetoes

    • Required 50% of states white males to vow that they never assisted the confederacy

  • 1864 Election

    • Lincoln, Johnson VP

  • Ironclad Oath

    • a person had to swear he had never borne arms against the Union or supported the Confederacy

  • Fort Pillow Massacre

    • Tenn.

    • Some 300 African American soldiers were killed

  • Nathan Bedford

    • KKK founder

  • John Wilkes Booth

    • Lincoln assinator

    • Fords theatre

  • Mary Surratt

    • Housed Wilkes Booth

  • 1st Freedman Bureau Bill

    • Sent agents into the south (Only 900 agents for the entire south)

  • Carpet Baggers

    • Southern nickname for agents

  • Exodusters

    • African Americans who moved out into the great plains

  • Sharecroppers

    • landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

    • Crop Lien System

  • Thaddeus Stevens

    • Congressmen from Penn.

    • Driving force behind the 13,14th Amendments and civil rights

  • Charles Sumner

    • Tried to pass Civil Rights Act that would ban segregation in the south

  • Southern Homestead Act

    • Slaves were given previously white-owned land

    • Most of the land was not great (swampy/heavily forested)

  • Black codes

    • Immediately established after slaves were freed 

    • restricted the freedom of African Americans

  • Andrew Johnson

    • Became president when Lincoln was pronounced dead

  • Blanket Pardon

    • Southerners who have less than $20,000 worth of property can’t be charged with a crime 

  • Alexander Stephens

    • VP of Confederacy voted into Georgia senate

  • 2nd Freedman Bureau Bill

    • Vetoed by johnson

    • Congress override his veto

  • Command of the Army Act

    • Prohibited the president from issuing military orders except through the commanding general of the army

  • General Amnesty Act-

    • state cannot deprive individuals of their civil liberties

  • 1868 Election

    • US Grant wins

  • Nepotism

    • Practice of electing family and friends into office

  • Whiskey Ring + Indian Ring- scandals 

    • Conspiracy among whiskey distillers and distributors to bribe U.S. government officials to avoid paying government excise taxes on liquor

  • The Coinage Act of 1873; The Crime of ‘73

    • dropping silver dollars from official coinage

    • pivot the country toward the gold standard and away from silver

  • Martial Law

    • Suspends Writs of Habeas Corpus

  • Fort Sumter

    • Kick start of civil war