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- 4. ___ riots; uprising against African Americans by Irish immigrants in New York
- 6. ___ corpus; right for a person not to be detained without being brought before a judge
- 7. President Andrew Johnson was impeached, but not removed from office; he was seen as favoring the South
- 13. ___ musket; made guns more accurate, causing more bloodshed than previous wars
- 15. when ___ ended, lynchings of African Americans increased, African American voters were denied the vote, and courts ruled that you could legally separate the races
- 18. over 100,000 African Americans served in the ___ Army during the war
- 19. ___ address; speech that called for America to live up to its ideals
- 20. Clara ___; served as a battlefield medic for the North and founded the American Red Cross
- 21. ___ Plan; Union strategy to create a naval blockade of Confederate forts
- 22. Andrew ___; became president after Lincoln was killed
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- 1. 15th Amendment granted this for all voting age male citizens, regardless of race
- 2. Freedman's ___; intended to aid former slaves during Reconstruction
- 3. African Americans who served in the Confederacy, including the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
- 5. 13th Amendment abolished this
- 8. had experienced military leaders and was motivated to defend their home land
- 9. Northern General whose march to the sea used total war strategy to get the South to surrender
- 10. restricting or prohibiting trade or travel with another nation
- 11. 54th ___ Regiment; first entirely African American military unit
- 12. ___ Republicans strongly supported civil rights during the Reconstruction era
- 14. Lincoln was assassinated in this city
- 16. 14th Amendment defined this
- 17. the bloodiest single day of the war took place in this battle
- 20. John Wilkes ___; killed Lincoln and conspired to kill other officials
