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- 3. the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
- 4. sea fort built on an artificial island protecting Charleston, South Carolina from naval invasion.
- 6. town in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,733 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Appomattox County. Appomattox is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- 9. location on the Mississippi River made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy. The Confederate surrender there ensured Union control of the Mississippi River and cleaved the South in two.
- 10. a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
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- 1. United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
- 2. a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
- 5. borough and town in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It’s known for Gettysburg National Battlefield, site of a turning point in the Civil War.
- 7. the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.
- 8. the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."