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  1. 3. A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level
  2. 4. Racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level
  3. 7. A village were Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865, ending the war
  4. 8. A controversial ruling made by the supreme court in 1857
  5. 9. A United States federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans
  6. 10. An infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Lee on Major General George G.(Union). On the last day of Gettysburg
  7. 11. Amendment of the United States Constitution that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
  8. 12. A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, campaigning for election, U.S. Senate from Illinois
  9. 14. A speech by Lincoln, one of the best known in American History
  10. 16. A plan carried out by John Wilkes Booth, in order to revive the Confederate cause
  11. 19. An agency of the war department set up in the 1865 to assist freed slaves
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  1. 1. The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory
  2. 2. Major event leading to the American Civil War. Five bills proposed by Henry Clay
  3. 5. A presidential proclamation issued by Lincoln, directed to all areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive Branch
  4. 6. Amendment of the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
  5. 13. A bill proposed for the reconstruction of the south written by two radical republicans
  6. 14. Battle between the Union and the Confederate on July 1-3, 1863 (Union Won)
  7. 15. Preserved the balance between slave and free states in the senate and brought about a lull in the bitter debate in congress over slavery. Banned slavery north of the 36 30 line
  8. 17. A United States federal law, that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate
  9. 18. A legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned