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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| an order issued by President Lincoln in 1862 freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union |
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| an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War |
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| 54th Massachusetts Infantry |
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| African American Civil War regiment that captured Fort Wagner in South Carolina |
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| a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War |
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| the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
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| Founder of the American Red Cross, she obtained and administered supplies and care to the Union soldiers during the American Civil War |
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