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5. confederate general
6. a conflict fought between the united (the union) and the Confederate states of America
10. a secret network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved people in the American South to escape to freedom in the Northern United States and Canada.
12. American abolitionist and social activist
13. a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln
14. to withdraw from an organization
15. effectively ended in reconstruction era

1. made picking cotton easier
2. seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
3. This era involved attempts to rebuild the South, grant freedmen citizenship and voting rights, and establish new state governments.
4. addresses citizenship, equal protection
7. the right of citizens of the United States to vote
8. a period of profound change, roughly from the mid-18th century
9. the untied States government policy of ethnic cleansing
11. the site where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.