Secession. Mobilization of North and South. Strategy, diplomacy, and war. Presidential and Radical Reconstruction.
Crittenden Compromise (1860)
Confederate States of America (1861), Richmond
Fort Sumter
Homestead Act (1862), Morrill Land-Grant Act (1862)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863), Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee
King Cotton diplomacy
Reconstruction: Freedmen's Bureau (1865), Lincoln's Reconstruction plan (1863), Wade-Davis Bill (1864), Andrew Johnson's Restoration (1865), Black Codes (1865-1866), Civil Rights Act (1866), Fourteenth Amendment (1866), Radical Reconstruction (1867-1869), five military districts, Fifteenth Amendment (1869)
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping, crop-lien system
Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the White Camellia
Compromise of 1877
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