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Dred Scott
The Civil War
Emancipation
Reconstruction
Amendments
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Who was Dred Scott? 

A slave who sued for his freedom.

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Who was the U.S. President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
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Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln

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What was the Reconstruction period?
The time after the Civil War to solve differences between the North, South, and Slavery
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What was the 13th amendment?
It abolished slavery in the U.S.
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Was Dred Scott born in free or slave territory?

Slave territory

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Who was the Confederate President during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
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Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all slaves in the US? 

No, only in rebel states. 

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What were the laws designed to restrict freed slaves rights in the South?

Black Codes or Jim Crow laws

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What is the 14th amendment?
This gives complete citizenship to freedmen (Freed slaves) that were naturalized on U.S. soil
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What does "free territory" mean before the civil war?

This was a territory in the US where if slaves made it there, they were no longer considered slaves.

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What was the Union?
The U.S., The North
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Was the Emancipation Proclamation given before, during or after the Civil War?

During

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Who were carpetbaggers?

Northern business men who went to the South after the Civil War  to help Freedmen, or sometimes take advantage of them?

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What is the 15th Amendment?
This gives black men the right to vote
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"Buchanan was inaugurated on March 4, 1857, and on March 6 Chief Justice Roger Taney issued the decision Buchanan wanted." Who wanted Dred Scott to be kept a slave?

Buchanan

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What is Slavery?
Black/ african Men who were forced to work for free.
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What did the European Powers (France and England) think about the Emancipation Proclamation?

They liked it and sided with the Union

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What organization was put together to help newly free slaves to find work and get property in the South?

The Freedmen's Bureau

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Who was not included in the 15th amendments?

Women during the Reconstruction Amendments

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According to this quote, could Dred Scott ever be considered a citizen? "First, Taney's opinion stated that African Americans, free or slave, could never be citizens of the United States. He maintained that blacks were "beings of an inferior order" who "had not rights which the white man was bound to respect." 

No, because he was a person of color. 

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What battle was the Unions turning point in the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
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What did this line of the Emancipation Proclamation mean, "And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence…” ?

It meant Lincoln was not giving Slaves permission to use violence.
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What were the Radical Republic?

Republicans that were in favor of abolitionists and wanted the South to pay for their mistakes and be managed. 

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Which Amendments are the Reconstruction/ Civil War Amendments?

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments