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- 5. abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
- 6. military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war
- 7. ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws
- 12. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
- 13. loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
- 16. an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
- 18. granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 19. as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 21. the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace
- 22. a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North
- 23. officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic
- 24. A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west.
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- 1. conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848
- 2. the movement to end slavery
- 3. the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies
- 4. emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes
- 8. the process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society
- 9. controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
- 10. the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918
- 11. faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877
- 14. withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
- 15. law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
- 17. the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social
- 20. widely held American imperialist cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America