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This document forbids slavery in the United States
What is Thirteenth Amendment.
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He was an american politician.
What is Stephen Douglas
100
A three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg Address
200
This organization helped blacks in the transition from slavery to freedom.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau.
200
16th president of the united states.
What is Abraham Lincoln
200
Executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
What is Emancipation Proclamation
300
This document declared that no state could take away citizens rights without due process of law.
What is Fourteenth Amendment.
300
American statesman, president of the Confederate States of America.
What is Jefferson Davis
300
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is 13th Amendment
400
This organization set out to keep blacks from voting, to punish scalawags, and to drive carpetbaggers from the south by violent means.
What is Klu Klux Klan
400
General who led the Confederate Armies in Civil War.
What is Robert E. Lee
400
Gave blacks the right of citizenship in America.
What is 14th Amendment
500
Wehen Congress passes a bill and the president does not like it, he returns it to Congress unsigned. The bill does not become law.
What is veto
500
18th president of the United States following his successful role as general only in the second half of the Civil War.
What is Ulysses S. Grant.
500
Passed after the Civil War that guaranteed blacks the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment