Civil War Vocab

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  1. 4. Amendment to the Constitution which granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
  2. 5. Law proposed that determined that slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories.
  3. 8. Holiday in the US commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves.
  4. 11. The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union.
  5. 12. Supreme Court decision that ruled that blacks were not citizens, and that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
  6. 14. Union military campaign that included the destruction of not just Confederate military outposts, but also civilian property.
  7. 15. An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam, freeing slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
  8. 16. Biracial political party in Virginia after the Civil War that was focused on paying the State's war debts.
  9. 17. This agreement admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico & Utah to popular sovereignty.
  10. 19. Preserved the balance of power and stalled tension between North and South allowing Missouri to join US as a slave-holding state and Maine as a free state.
  11. 20. Location of the first conflict in the Civil War on April 12, 1861.
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  1. 1. Amendment to the Constitution that granted voting rights to African American males.
  2. 2. The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
  3. 3. Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery.
  4. 6. A famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of a battle.
  5. 7. Era that emerged after the Civil War as former Confederates regained political power in the South.
  6. 9. Provided support to former slaves & poor whites in South.
  7. 10. The greatest battle of the Civil War that ended in a major victory for the North and is considered the turning point of the war.
  8. 13. Republicans in Congress who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote.
  9. 18. Town in central Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.