Civil War

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  1. 3. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
  2. 4. An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state that allowed enslavement and Maine was admitted as a state that banned enslavement.
  3. 8. A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
  4. 9. Confederacy another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union.
  5. 12. A war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country.
  6. 15. An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed Black Americans.
  7. 16. An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.
  8. 17. The period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union as the federal government addressed the impact of slavery.
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  1. 1. A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.
  2. 2. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law.
  3. 5. An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate states to be free.
  4. 6. A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.
  5. 7. The United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North.
  6. 10. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  7. 11. The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state in which slavery was illegal. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger law targeting fugitives from slavery.
  8. 13. Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
  9. 14. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."