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History: Civil War and Reconstruction

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abolitionist   A person who believed slavery was wrong and worked to end it  
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Booth   President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes ____ on April 14, 1865.  
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Bureau   The Freedmen’s ____ was set up by Congress to help all who were homeless and without jobs because of the war.  
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carpetbagger   A Northerner who went to the South after the war to help rebuild it  
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fifteenth   The ____ amendment gave former slaves the right to vote.  
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fourteenth   The ____ amendment made former slaves citizens.  
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Gettysburg   The turning point of the Civil War was the 1863 Battle of ____ in Pennsylvania.  
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leaders   At the end of the Civil War, ____ of both the North and South encouraged forgiveness.  
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military   The main advantage of the South during the Civil War was its many ____ leaders.  
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money   Many carpetbaggers and scalawags were dishonest and had no concern for the South, wanting only to make ____ for themselves.  
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Monitor   The first battle of ironclad ships took place during the Civil War between the ____ of the North and the Merrimac of the South.  
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North   The ____ had many advantages during the Civil War: more people, more money, more railroads, and more factories.  
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Radicals   Northern leaders of Congress who believed the South should be punished for the Civil War  
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scalawag   A Southerner who supported the Radicals in Congress  
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Scott   The Dred ____ Decision by the Supreme Court angered the North and delighted the South.  
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secede   South Carolina, the first state to ____ from the Union, did so three months before President Lincoln took the oath of office.  
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Sumter   The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort ____ in South Carolina.  
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thirteenth   The ____ amendment put an end to slavery.  
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Union   Lincoln’s main goal was to save the ____.  
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voting   Members of the Ku Klux Klan used violence to keep blacks, scalawags, and carpetbaggers from ____ and holding office.  
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