Unit 6 The Civil War and Reconstruction

A court order requiring authorities to bring a prisoner before the court so that the court can determine whether the prisoner is being held legally.

• Habeas Corpus

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Imminent Domain

• Gettysburg Address

An executive order issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.

• Habeas Corpus

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln Doctrine

A speech delivered by Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. Stressed the importance of keeping the Union together.

• Lincoln Doctrine

• Emancipation Address

• Gettysburg Address

• Gettysburg Doctrine

This Union general was vital in the Union winning the Battle of Vicksburg. Would eventually be in charge of all Union Forces.

• Robert E. Lee

• George B. McClellan

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

Commander of the Confederate States Army.

• Robert E. Lee

• Stonewall Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

Confederate General that died from a injury sustained at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Stonewall Jackson

• George Pickett

• Jefferson Davis

Union General famous for his march to the sea campaign that waged total war through the heart of the confederacy.

• William T. Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

President of the Confederate States.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stonewall Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

An island fort in the Charleston harbor and the site of the Confederate attack on Union troops that began the Civil War.

• Fort Sumter

• Antietam

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

Site of the bloodiest single day battle in the American history during the Civil War. Shortly after the battle Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Atlanta

• Antietam

• Vicksburg

• Fort Sumter