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- the battle that was the turning point of the war won by the North
- President Lincoln's announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any states fighting against the North
- an escaped slave and one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad
- 16th President; President during the Civil War
- event in 1889 when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma to claim land for themselves
- brought the steel industry to America; donated much of his fortune to charity
- Produced the Model T; developed the assembly line method of production
- once called Russian America and later nicknamed "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox"; became the 49th state in 1959; gold discovered there in 1896
- land set aside by the U.S. for Indian tribes
- act passed by government stating that any family that settled in certain areas of the West could receive 160 acres of land
- Name the system of tapping dots and dashes over telegraph wires
- organized the oil industry in America; created the Rockefeller Foundation to give money to charities
- What is the name given to a person who comes into a new country to live?
- First permanent English settlement in the New World
- America's most famous evangelist during the 19th century
- 32 African Americans were elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1868 and shortly expelled for being African American
- Plan for rebuilding the South after the Civil War
- System where freed slaves agreed to work white landowners' land in exchange for housing and a share of the crops
- the killing of African Americans that arrived in Camilla GA for a political meeting by the KKK after the expulsion of the African Americans in the General Assembly
- Majority of white men must swear loyalty to the Union, must ratify the 13th Amendment and former confederate officials may vote and hold office