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- After going to war with each other, Great Britain and France seized U.S. merchant ships in order to
- According to the Federalists, the best form of government was one in which decisions were made by:
- Which statement about the results of the War of 1812 is INCORRECT?
- Make Inferences: What is the main goal of the first ten amendments, of the Bill of Rights?
- What factors do you think contributed to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?
- Interpret: What principle of our government does the Seventeenth Amendment protect?
- Issued in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln declaring that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate States would be free. This was a gradual freeing,as it did not apply to slaves living in border areas or states occupied by Federal troops. All slaves were not free until the ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865
- Explain: What is the biggest challenge facing the new nation?
- Passed in 1866 as part of Reconstruction and known as the Civil Rights Bill it protected the rights and involvement of citizens in government. It declared all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. (except Indians) were citizens,and were entitled to equal rights and due process of law regardless of their race. It wasn't until the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's that unequal treatment of black sand women was truly addressed, but this was a start
- The period from 1867-1877 when the U.S. confronted the process for readmitting the southern states to the Union and integrating the freed slaves into society.
- Passed in 1865 as part of Reconstruction, it legally forbade slavery in the U.S. without compensation to slave owners
- Efforts to change society for the better increased in the early 1800s. These included reforms for Education, Prisons, Slavery, Women's Rights, and Temperance (limiting alcohol).
- Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the dedication of the national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought.
- As president of the Confederate States he tried to lead the southern states during the Civil War, despite the lack of consensus among southerners. He continued to support the confederate cause after the war.
- President during the Civil War. He helped build the Republican Party and debated Stephen Douglas for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858.He lost that election, but became a rising political star and won the Republican nomination andPresidency in 1860, reelected in 1864 and assassinated in 1865. He managed to preserve the unity of the U.S. and took steps to abolish slavery, but was assassinated before he could implement post war plans.
- A group of Radical Republicans wished to punish the South for the Civil War and allow all freemen, including blacks, full citizenship and voting rights. They also wanted to seize land from the plantation owners to redistribute to freedmen and fund schools for African Americans. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 marked the beginning of Reconstruction. The 14th amendment or the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was part of the process.
- What year did the Lexington and concord happen
- He gained recognition for his outstanding military leadership during the Civil War. When the South seceded, Lincoln offered him the command of Union forces but Lee refused, he resigned from the U.S. Army and returned to Virginia to serve with Confederate forces. After his surrender to Grant at Appomattox, he urged southerners to pledge allegiance to the north and to rebuild the nation
- a seaman born in Chile, South America. He was a United StatesNavy seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decorationof the United States for valor in combat. He distinguished himself during the Civil Warin the battle for Fort Fisher, which was in North Carolina and the last major portavailable to the Confederates. He entered the fort as it was being shelled in order todeliver messages to the commander.
- He was a leading American writer and philosopher who lived at Walden Pond, where he wrote an essay "Civil Disobedience". He also lectured and wrote against slavery.