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10 Cards in this Set
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Ft. Sumter |
A fort where the first shots of the civil war were shot. |
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Emancipation proclamation |
The act that freed all slaves from their owners. |
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Gettysburg address |
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers' cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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Appomattox courthouse |
A courthouse in Appomattox, where a war was fought. |
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13th amendment |
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. |
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14th Amendment |
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. |
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15th amendment |
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
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Freedman's Bureau |
An act to help former slaves and poor white southerners get started after slavery ended. |
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Black codes |
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy. |
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Civil rights act of 1866 |
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