Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 5. passed by Congress following a wave of KKK violence, banned clan membership
  2. 6. Constitutional amendment that ended slavery
  3. 7. Union general in command of the Union army from 1861-2862
  4. 8. created to aid newly emancipated slaves
  5. 9. Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft, and emancipation
  6. 11. declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free
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  1. 1. Constitutional amendment that extended civil rights to freedmen
  2. 2. Landmark battle in the Civil War that essentially ended in a draw but it gave Lincoln the opportunity to declare emancipation
  3. 3. first major battle of the war that dispelled northern illusions of a swift victory
  4. 4. introduced by President Lincoln, it proposed that a state be readmitted to the Union once 10% of its voters had pledged loyalty to the United States
  5. 10. bloodiest battle of the Civil War which took place in July of 1863
  6. 12. Confederate General in command of the Confederate army
  7. 13. passed in 1866 over Andrew Johnson's veto, the bill aimed to counteract the black codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans