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Reconstruction
What is the time following the Civil War, where the United States attempted to Unify.
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President who thought that slavery should be abolished
Who is Abe Lincoln
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The deadliest battle of the Civil War

What is the Battle of Gettysburg

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Amendment to the Constitution which made Slavery illegal
What is the 13th Amendment
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What are some ways that southern states restricted African Americans?

Poll taxes, literacy test, violence

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A derogatory term used for a northerner who moved to the south during Reconstruction to either help former slaves or take advantage of the system.

Carpetbagger

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Hiram Revels

First African American Senator

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What were differences between the north and the south as the war began?

South more rural, North more industrialized. South more military leaders, cotton, less resources. North, more factories, larger population, etc... 

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Amendment to the Constitution which: -Granted citizenship to blacks -Equal protection for all citizens -Former Confederate solders could not hold office in Government
What is the 14th Amendment
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Did you see the Barbie movie?

Yes

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Political party that argued for State’s Rights and pressured for Reconstruction to end.

Southern Democrats

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The president who oversaw Reconstruction after Lincoln's assassination.

Andrew Johnson

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an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
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Amendment to the Constitution which granted suffrage (right to vote) for all blacks
What is the 15th Amendment
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The _____________________ put Rutherford Hayes into office as the nation's 19th president; outraged northern Democrats derided Hayes as "His Fraudulency."
What is the Compromise of 1877
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Speech given by Abraham Lincoln to reinvigorate the Union and inspire the cause to fight the Civil War to end slavery

Gettysburg Address

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Explain the impact and details of the Dred v. Scott case

The U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory

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What were the differences between Lincoln's plan and Johnson's plan?

Johnson's plan wasn't as willing to give as much freedom to newly free slaves as Lincolns was. Johnson wanted to give the land back to the south unlike the RR. Johnson's plan gave less protection to freed slaves then the Radical Republican's plan. Unlike the 10% plan, the plan they had wanted to punish the south.

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A speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best-known speeches in American history. Came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. In just over two minutes Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union.
What is the Gettysburg Address
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-Abolition of Slavery -Growth of Federal Government -Growth of industry -Nation reunited
What are Effects of the War
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Radical Republicans

Political Party that believed rebellious states should be punished after the Civil War. They advocated for protecting former slaves and issuing the military to carry out new federal laws.

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Explain the details and impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

The Court's “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson on that date upheld state-imposed Jim Crow laws. It became the legal basis for racial segregation in the United States for the next fifty years.

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Over 23,000 men fell as casualties in the 1-day Battle of _________________, making it the bloodiest day in American history. This Union victory resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam
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Harsh Laws that regulated behavior of African Americans
What are the Black Codes
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-Slavery -States Rights -Economic differences between north and South -Secession of the South
What are Causes of the War