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- 6. Slaves could receive this in order to move from the United States. They could make the decision to move to countries such as Liberia.
- 8. The number of black volunteers who fought with the Union in the Civil War.
- 9. This branch of government enforces our laws.
- 10. This was the president who was in office during the Civil War, on the Union side.
- 14. This race of people were freed from slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation. Many of them helped fight in the Civil War with the Union.
- 15. The month and year when the 13th Amendment was ratified.
- 17. Lincoln passed this bill that proposed that all slaves in states or territories should be free.
- 19. The name of the war that was started to keep all states in the Union and eventually abolished slavery.
- 20. The month and year Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington DC.
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- 1. Britain continued to buy this popular crop from the Confederate States of America while the Civil War was being fought.
- 2. When this bureau was established, it allowed blacks to fight with the Union Army during the Civil War.
- 3. The capital of the Union, where slavery was first prohibited.
- 4. The month and year that Lincoln prohibited slavery in the Union states and territories.
- 5. The month and year that Lincoln prohibited slavery in the rebellious states and territories.
- 7. The group of people who were angry about the Emancipation Proclamation, because the Civil War was originally meant to keep the Union together, not to free slaves.
- 11. The amendment that was passed that eventually gave slaves their freedom.
- 12. An early device that used electric signals to send messages across long distances invented by Samuel Morse.
- 13. The advisors of the President who help him make decisions.
- 16. The Secretary of the Navy during the time of the Emancipation Proclamation (1862).
- 18. The government institution that passed the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln proposed.