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- 4. was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
- 7. : the act of nullifying : the state of being nullified
- 9. the largest Confederate victory in the Western theater.
- 11. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 12. The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
- 13. the state of being a slave.
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- 1. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
- 2. The largest and most famous of 150 military prisons of the Civil War,
- 3. was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
- 5. was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864,
- 6. the document affirmed the acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution of the sectional slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on Southern rights by the North would be acceptable.
- 8. he was able to force the surrender of Atlanta in September 1864,boosting Northern morale and greatly improving President Abraham Lincoln's re-election bid.
- 10. demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War.