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- 4. ___________ Douglass a formerly enslaved African American
- 7. that outlawed slavery anywhere in the United States
- 9. ______ Amendment (1865) an amendment to the United States
- 11. _____________ Proclamation (1862) an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
- 12. Proclamation arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865
- 13. an annual holiday that celebrates when news of the
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- 1. _________ Amendment An addition to the Constitution in 1868 giving citizenship to anyone born in, or accepted as a citizen into, the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection under the law
- 2. an individual who opposed slavery and actively worked to end it
- 3. ____________ Codes local and state laws adopted in the South that greatly limited the rights of African Americans
- 5. the period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states (1865–1877)
- 6. __________Amendment the 1870 addition to the Constitution that guaranteed the right to vote to all U.S. males without reference to racial or social background
- 8. a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
- 10. taking away someone’s right to vote