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| Amendment to the United States Constitution stating: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
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| The first shots of the American Civil War were fired in this year. |
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| This is the year in which the Reconstruction Era came to an official end in the Southern United States. |
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| This amendment, ratified in 1964, forbids the national and state governments from charging a poll tax in order to vote in any election. |
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| He was the founder of the first black labor union and a prominent Civil Rights leader |
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| This term describes the movement to end the slave trade and emancipate American slaves during the 1800s. |
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| He was an Illinois Congressman and the 16th President of the United States during the Civil War. |
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| These are policies designed to promote equal education or employment access for minority groups that have previously been discriminated against. |
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| This was an uprising of Native Americans in the United States that included the seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a standoff at Wounded Knee. |
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| Americans With Disabilities Act |
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| This law was passed in 1990 to prevent social and economic discrimination against people with physical or mental limitation(s) that might impair a major life function. |
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| This was the Union strategy to instigate a complete naval blockade of the Confederacy in order to prevent the export of their major cash crop- cotton- or the import of weapons from Europe. |
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| This was the largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War in Macon county, Georgia. It is estimated that nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 Union prisoners died there due to a variety of causes. |
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| This politician from Tennessee became President following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, later becoming the first President to be impeached (he was found not guilty). |
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| Period used to describe Pre-Civil War in the United States. |
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| This is the city in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. |
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| This was the classic statement on race relations by Booker T. Washington, made in a speech at the Atlanta Exposition (1895). He asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks a chance for economic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office. |
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| These are people who were born during a population "explosion" after World War II. |
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| This was an important Civil War battle fought on September 17, 1862, in Maryland, significant for being both a strategic victory for the Union and for being the first major battle that took place on Northern soil. |
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| This was an important battle fought on July 22, 1864 in Georgia during the Civil War. It was a Union victory led by General Sherman and was subsequently burned to the ground and then he led his March to the Sea. |
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| This was one of the bloodiest battles during the American Civil War. Set in Pennsylvania, it is also credited as a major turning point for the Union in the war against the Confederacy. |
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