APUH S2 Vocab Flashcards

Constitutional amendment prohibiting all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude.

Former Confederate states were required to ratify the amendment prior to gaining reentry into the Union.

American general who led troops against "Pancho" Villa in 1916.

last reigning queen of Hawaii, whose defense of native Hawaiian self-rule led to a revolt by white settlers and her dethronement.

Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft, and, after 1863, emancipation.

American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement

26th President of the United States. He was a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War

hated both slavery and blacks. Argued that nonslaveholding whites actually suffered most in a slave economy and wrote antislavery tract

American abolitionist and author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized

declared that the Reconstruction of the South was a legislative, not executive, matter

required that 50 percent of a state’s voters pledge allegiance to the Union and set stronger safeguards for emancipation.

Prison and asylum reformer

plan proposed to create a constitutional amendment to protect slavery from federal interference in any state where it already existed

United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism

site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and where confederate army surrendered

Location of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination

Republican senator who disagreed with the Versailles Treaty and crusaded against League of Nations

officer in the United States Army who replaced George B. McClellan

Congressional group that wished to punish the South for its secession from the Union

American inventor who created the electric light bulb, the phonograph, the mimeograph, and the moving picture

Northern businessmen and politicians who came to the South after the Civil War to work on Reconstruction

Gave aid to newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support.

speech given by Abraham Lincoln where he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty.

battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North.

est. by Congress during the Civil War to oversee military affairs

Spanish general who arrived in Cuba in 1896 to put down the insurrection