Antebellum America, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Vocabulary

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  1. 2. klux klan Often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right,
  2. 4. amendment Extended the right to vote for all males
  3. 7. of 1850 Legislation passed by congress by which California entered the union as a free state
  4. 9. Confedarate prison for union soliders
  5. 11. compromise Legislation passed by congress in 1820
  6. 13. The ability to buy something now and pay for it later or over a period of time
  7. 14. The act of pulling out of the union
  8. 15. The right to vote
  9. 17. Unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
  10. 20. sovereignity The ability of the residents of an area to decide upon issue such as whether they would allow slavery
  11. 21. right's The belief that a states interest should preceedence over the interest of the Nation government
  12. 23. bureau A federal government organization established in 1865 that helped the newly freed slavery after the Civil War
  13. 24. The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution
  14. 26. codes A set of laws passed by Georgia, and most Southern states, after the Civil War to restrict the rights of freedom
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  1. 1. amendment A granted citizenship to the former slaves and forbade the states from denying anyone the equal protection of the law
  2. 3. amendment An amendment to the U.S constitution ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal
  3. 5. To declare invalid
  4. 6. The period immediatley after the Civil war when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
  5. 7. gin Used to seperate the seeds from the cotton fiber
  6. 8. lincoln Elected in 1860
  7. 10. proclamation A document issued by the president Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in the confedaracy
  8. 12. states A state that allowed slavery
  9. 15. Landowners provided land, a house, farming tools, and fertilizer
  10. 16. of chickamauga Union general led his troopa seven miles South of Chattanooga at Chickamauga Creek
  11. 18. The period before the civilwar
  12. 19. states A state that didn't allow slavery
  13. 22. farming Owned some agriculture equipment
  14. 25. runners Mostly private ships that slipped around the blockade