civil war and reconstruction

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  1. 1. everyone born in the untied states is automatically american citizen
  2. 6. American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  3. 8. Second Inaugural delivered on March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.
  4. 11. authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ
  5. 15. a group of states or nations united into one political body
  6. 16. battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  7. 18. American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States
  8. 19. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
  9. 21. first American president to be impeached on March 2–3, 1868
  10. 23. period after the Civil War in which the federal government enacted and attempted to enforce equal suffrage
  11. 25. is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people
  12. 26. was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election
  13. 27. last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy, the Anaconda Plan.
  14. 29. American white supremacist hate group, whose primary target is African Americans.
  15. 30. was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  16. 31. near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War
  17. 32. executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 2, 1862
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  1. 2. served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.
  2. 3. actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865
  3. 4. speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War
  4. 5. assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865
  5. 7. he 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876
  6. 9. southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War.
  7. 10. President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom
  8. 12. established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
  9. 13. American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army.
  10. 14. fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia
  11. 17. was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac
  12. 20. was the period in American history which lasted from 1863 to 1877
  13. 22. war between north and south of America from 1861 to 1865
  14. 24. 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election.
  15. 28. were laws governing the conduct of African Americans