TCI Lesson 21- The Civil War

draft

• people who were made to serve in the army whether they wanted to or not

• people who were in charge of the army

• people who cooked for others in the army

Emancipation Proclamation

• A speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement

• A document outlining the rules of the American Revolutionary War

• An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, declaring all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be set free.

• A treaty signed by European powers to end World War I

Gettysburg

• the site that started the Civil War

• the site the North lost the Civil War

• the site of an 1863 Civil War battle won by the North that was a turning point in the war

Reconstruction

• the process of the South leaving the states

• the process by which Congress tried to rebuild the South and reunite it with the Union after the Civil War

• the process of building the army to fight in the Civil War

sharecropping

• Sharecropping was a system of industrial manufacturing

• Sharecropping was a system of banking practices

• Sharecropping was a system of transportation

• Sharecropping was a system of agriculture in which landowners allowed tenant farmers to use their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced.