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  1. 2. The President of Confederates.
  2. 4. The Confederate states of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southerner states after their separation from the Union.
  3. 6. The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War.
  4. 9. Union General who headed the Union army on the invasion in Western Tennessee.
  5. 14. A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
  6. 15. Klux Klan A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
  7. 16. Dedicated Union army nurse who found the red cross.
  8. 17. an amendment that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves.
  9. 19. Nickname given to Confederate General Thomas J who stood like a stone.
  10. 21. Lee & Grant met at a private home to arrange the confederate surrender in this very court house.
  11. 23. Famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863.
  12. 26. an amendment that makes all persons born or naturalized in the U.S- including former slaves-citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws.
  13. 28. Group of Republicans led by Senator Charles Sumner.
  14. 30. appointed commander of the military division of Mississippi.
  15. 32. an amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
  16. 35. the drafting of citizens for military service.
  17. 37. A Northerner who moved to the South after Civil War.
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  1. 1. A slave whose owner took him from a slave state to a free state and then back, he also appealed Supreme court for his freedom.
  2. 3. Winner of the Democratic candidate in 1862
  3. 5. Lincolns successor.
  4. 7. A system in which the residents vote to decide and issue.
  5. 8. First bloodshed on the battlefield after Fort Sumter.
  6. 10. the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
  7. 11. wrote a novel called "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  8. 12. An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 freeing the slaves in all regions behind confederate lines.
  9. 13. One of the two strongholds on the Mississippi River. Played important role since its location.
  10. 18. The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
  11. 20. A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.
  12. 22. Republican Congressman, who later on end up as the Union President.
  13. 24. The Confederates general.
  14. 25. on an wind in Charleston Harbor.
  15. 27. Democratic incumbent who had a debate with Abraham Lincoln.
  16. 29. a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise.
  17. 31. Revels The first African American senator.
  18. 33. Historic site in Northwestern Maryland, scene of major Civil War battle in 1862
  19. 34. Tax on earning.
  20. 36. white Southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.