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| Missouri Compromise | Set a boundary of 36'30 for lands in Louisiana Territory; north of line free; south of line slave |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a slave, was property even if taken to a free state |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln's election led the southern states to secede from union |
| Fort Sumter | Site of first battle in the American Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Lincoln; freed the slaves in the Confederacy |
| Confederacy | Southern states that seceded from the U.S. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Site where the Lee surrendered to Grant to end the Civil War |
| 13th Amendment | Ended slavery in U.S. |
| 14th Amendment | Extended "due process" to states |
| 15th Amendment | Granted black men the right to vote |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Assisted distressed freed slaves after the Civil War; started schools for former slaves |
| Military Districts | Reconstruction Act (1867); military rule for southern states until they wrote new state constitutions guaranteeing black men the vote |
