Chapter 15 & 16 Civil War and Recontruction

Federal agency set up in 1865 to help poor whites and Free Africans in the South

a law set forth by a government agency

Gave all Americans the rights to sue anyone who was trying to restrict their rights.

One of the costliest battles of the Civil War and was a turning point for the United States

First major battle of the American Civil War

The site where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861.

This proclamation freed all slaves in states still in rebellion against the United States

When Reconstruction ended.

Commander of Union Army during the Civil War and future president.

Laws passed by South after the Civil War, limiting the freedom of Africans in the South

American President who ended Reconstruction

A series of hiding places forming a route to freedom for runaway slaves

This amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of race.

He was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and of all the Confederates forces.

holding extreme political views that call for extreme action

a pardon

Civil War nurse who founded the American Red Cross

insulting name for a Northerner who came south after the Civil War.

This was the Union War plan to defeat the Confederate States during the Civil War.

the process of rebuilding the South