Quarter 1 - Key Vocabulary

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Anaconda Plan

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Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

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Sectionalism

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Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict.

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Freedman's Bureau, 1865

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Set up to help freedmen and white refugees after Civil War. Provided food, clothing, medical care, and education. First to establish schools for blacks to learn to read as thousands of teachers from the north came south to help. Lasted from 1865-72.

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Freedmen

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Enslaved people who had been freed by the Civil war

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Frederick Douglass

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(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights

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Sharecropping

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A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

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Presidential Reconstruction

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President Johnson's idea of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.

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Radical Reconstruction

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Reconstruction strategy that was based on severely punishing South for causing war

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Radical Republicans

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After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.