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- 3. Ratified in 1865, the amendment stated “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”
- 4. Supreme court case whose ruling stated that non-citizens (slaves) could not sue in federal court
- 8. a system in which landowners divided their land and assigned each head of household a few acres of land along with seeds and tools
- 9. General of Confederate army who drove McClellan away from the confederate capital of Richmond
- 13. Prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any US citizen. This amendment overruled the Dred Scott decision.
- 14. The most notorious and widespread southern vigilante group that used violence to intimidate African Americans
- 15. General of the Union Army
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- 1. Issued by President lincoln, it stated that all slaves in areas currently under rebellion would be freed immediately
- 2. The period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 to 1877
- 5. Bureau that assisted formers slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food
- 6. Ratified in 1870, this amendment stated that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
- 7. The Confederate States of America, formed from states that seceded from the Union
- 10. A minority of Republicans in Congress who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders
- 11. The president who succeeded Abraham Lincoln and oversaw much of Reconstruction
- 12. Laws that severely restricted African Americans’ lives