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- 2. Lincoln's wartime order, effective January 1, 1863, declaring enslaved people free in designated areas of rebellion.
- 3. Constitutional change ratified in 1868 that established birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law.
- 7. Postwar Southern laws designed to restrict the rights and freedoms of formerly enslaved people.
- 10. Pennsylvania battle in July 1863 that ended Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
- 11. Federal agency established in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people through relief, education, and legal support.
- 12. 1854 legislation organizing two western territories and allowing settlers to decide the slavery question through popular sovereignty.
- 14. Belief that American territorial expansion across North America was a national mission.
- 15. Political arrangement that resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876 and accompanied the end of federal protection for remaining Republican Southern governments.
- 20. Supreme Court ruling of 1857 that denied Black national citizenship and restricted Congress's power to prohibit slavery in federal territories.
- 21. White supremacist terrorist organization founded in Tennessee in 1866.
- 22. Religious revival movement that helped encourage social reform in nineteenth-century America.
- 23. Territorial acquisition from France in 1803 that roughly doubled the size of the United States.
- 24. Confrontation in which South Carolina claimed the authority to reject federal tariff laws.
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- 1. Constitutional amendment ratified in 1870 prohibiting denial of voting rights on the basis of race.
- 4. Constitutional amendment ratified in 1865 that abolished slavery throughout the United States, except as punishment for crime.
- 5. Federal law of 1850 that strengthened procedures for capturing and returning people accused of escaping slavery.
- 6. Plantation-based Southern economy built around expanding cotton production and enslaved labour.
- 8. Agricultural arrangement in which tenants cultivated land in exchange for a portion of the harvest.
- 9. Southern Democrats who claimed to restore their states from Republican Reconstruction governments.
- 11. Early American political party associated with Alexander Hamilton and a strong national government.
- 13. Economic transformation driven by expanded markets, improved transportation, and industrial production.
- 16. Agreement of 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- 17. Forced removal of Cherokee people and other Indigenous nations from their southeastern homelands during the 1830s.
- 18. Shawnee leader who organized Indigenous resistance to American territorial expansion.
- 19. Mississippi River stronghold that surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in July 1863.
