| A | B |
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| 13th Amendment | this officially outlawed slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | guarantees citizenship and rights to all people ? aimed at former slaves ? allows the Federal Govt. to protect those rights when States interfere |
| 15th Amendment | gives all men, including former slaves, the right to vote |
| 1861 - 1865 | dates when the Civil War occurred |
| Abolition | to get rid of slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | led the fight 1860s to keep the nation together |
| acquire | to get |
| Black Codes | laws down South .. With the intent to keep slavery even after it was abolished |
| Bleeding Kansas | a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act .. Bloodshed over slavery or no slavery in 1 state |
| Booker T. Washington | believed social & economic equality could be achieved through vocational training & OJT (on the job training) |
| Cash Crop | you grow something in order to sell it and make money ? i.e COTTON .. |
| ceded | to give ? to acquire |
| Compromise of 1850 | California admitted as a Free State .. Rest of the States gained from Mexico can decide if they want to allow slavery .. Any slaves caught in a free state must be returned to their owner |
| Confederacy | the South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | President Abraham Lincoln frees the slaves |
| Frederick Douglass | abolitionist .. Against slavery |
