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- The Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free ___________ people in the South becayse the South was not following the _______ of the United States. The proclamation did, however, let everyone know that the ________ believed that slavery was ________.
- What term is used to explain the freeing of someone from another person's control, or freeing them from slavery?
- Lincoln did not view the Civil War as a battle to end ________. his main goal was to keep the ________ together. Lincoln did not _________ slavery, but he was afraid that he would lose the support of the _______ states if he moved against slavery.
- In the Compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes (a Republican) would become president if the Republicans agreed to do what?
- What was put into place by former Confederates in political offices that made African Americans out to be second class citizens?
- What did Lincoln claim that the goals of the war were in his Gettysburg Address?
- What plan intended to encircle the Confederate states and cut them off from the Union and all other possible allies?
- Who became president after President Lincoln?
- What helped maintain the voting rights of white men after 1877?
- When the people living in an area decide on a law for themselves we refer to this as what?
- The Emancipation Proclamation made it clear that this war was about what?
- What do we call the series of escape routes and hiding places that enslaved people could use while running away from the South to the North or to Canada?
- Which amendment formally abolished slavery in the U.S.?
- What do we call the idea of weakening an enemy by crippling their ability to fight?
- What organization was a welfare agency that helped the formerly enslaved become full U.S. citizens?
- What political group agreed with Lincoln that the Union should just forgive the Confederate soldiers?
- Where did General Lee and General Grant agree to meet to discuss the terms of surrender?
- What political candidate running for president in 1860, opposed slavery but did not intend to end it in the South?
- Under the Missouri Compromise, what state would enter as a free state?
- What group of people wanted to end slavery throughout the whole U.S.?