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Key Terms

Gettysburg Address – Lincoln was attempting to shift the purpose of

the war from Union for Union’s sake to Union for freedom’s sake. He
sought to salvage something from the deaths of the 50,000 men at
Gettysburg. Democratic newspapers rebuked Lincoln for his claim,
arguing that white soldiers had “too much self-respect to declare that
Negroes were their equals.” But other Northerners accepted Lincoln’s
exhortation as the definition of their purpose. They might not believe
that blacks deserve to be included as full participants in a government
of, by, and for “the people,” but they did believe that the Union fought
for liberty broadly conceived.

William T. Sherman – Union General under Ulysses S. Grand. Issued

Special Field Order No. 15

Andrew Johnson – The 17th President of the U.S. (1865 – 1869). He

succeeded the assassinated Abraham Lincoln as President. His
administration was marked by reconstruction policies in the South and
the purchase of Alaska. An attempt to unseat Secretary of War Edwin
Stanton led to Johnson’s impeachment on purely political charges
brought by Republican senators.

Emancipation – Freedom of the slaves

Special Field Order 15 – Issued by William T. Sherman in January of

1865, this order reserved land in coastal South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida for former slaves. Those who settled on the land would receive
forty-acre plots

Thirteenth Amendment – Passed in 1865. Constitutional amendment

abolishing slavery forever

Appomattox –
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John Wilkes Booth – A failed actor and Southern Sympathizer who
assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865

Freedmen’s Bureau – A federal agency created in 1865 to supervise

newly freed people. It oversaw relations between whites and blacks in
the South, issued food rations, and supervised labor contracts.

Black Codes – Laws for controlling the former slaves. Southern white
legislatures granted only the barest minimum of rights to black people:
a)the right to marry, b) to hold property c) to sue and be sued

Radical Republicans –

Ku Klux Klan –

Reconstruction Act –

Impeachment – The act of charging a public official with misconduct in

office