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- 6. first and only President of the Confederate States of America after the election of Lincoln in 1860 led to the secession of many southern states
- 10. meaning scoundrel; name given by former Confederates to those southerners who supported the shift in power to Congress and the army in the South during Reconstruction
- 13. Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
- 17. an order issued by P. Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
- 18. 18th President of the US, received a field promotion to lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces
- 19. a constitutional amendment that gave African-American men the right to vote
- 20. constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery (1865)
- 21. 16th President of the US; he promoted equal rights for African-Americans and issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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- 1. (1861) the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showing the North that the Civil War would not be won easily
- 2. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
- 3. (1863) a Union Civil War battle victory that turned the tide against the Confederates
- 4. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not
- 5. the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy
- 7. American politician and pro-slavery nominee for President; he debated Lincoln about slavery; he proposed the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 8. a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African-Americans from obtaining their civil rights
- 9. (1862) a Union battle victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in US military history
- 11. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
- 12. American general; he refused Lincoln's offer to head the Union Army and agreed to lead Confederate forces
- 14. the laws that put the southern states under US military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th amendment
- 15. (1861) the first battle of the Civil War; surrendered by the Union on April 14, 1861
- 16. a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States (except for American Indians)