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Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote.

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Amendment that granted former slaves citizenship.

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Amendment that banned slavery

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Slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom.

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The author of the Declaration of Independence.

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Passage in the first amendment that states that people have the right to practice their religion freely.

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Tax paid if you wanted to vote. Many African Americans could not afford to pay this tax, which kept them disenfranchise.

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Government agency that provided jobs, education, sheltered, and housing for war refugees in the South, especially newly freed slaves after the Civil War.

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Rebuilding the South America after the Civil War, along with dealing with former confederates and newly freed slaves. Decided by President Lincoln.

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Religious group that supported the abolitionist movement.

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People who wanted an immediate end to slavery. They launched the abolitionist movement to try to end slavery.

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A Protestant revival movement during the early nineteenth century. Its goal was to encourage people to reform their lives.

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The followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They settled in Utah due to harassment.

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This idea argued that because states had created the federal union, they had the right to declare a federal law null, or not valid.

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1823 statement declaring that the American continents should no longer be viewed as open to colonization.

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The power to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional and strike down laws that were not. It plays an essential role in ensuring that each branch of government recognizes the limits of its own power.

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Power divided between federal (national) government and state government. A system that strengthened the central government but still preserve the rights of the states.

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When drafting the constitution this solution split congress into two houses, the House of Represnetatives (based on population) and the Senate equal representation.

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A written agreement ratified in 1781 prior to our current constitution; it provided a legal symbol of their union but made the country weak.

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Wrote by John Locke, described that all people were born with natural rights, including the right to life, liberty, and property. Influenced the Declaration of Independence.

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This 1776 document was influenced by John Locke's ideas of natural rights. It contains the arguments the colonists used to explain why they wanted to be free of British rule.

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When government's power is divided into the three branches: Legislative, executive, and judical. It prevented the concentration of power and provide for checks and balances.

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17th and 18th century intellectual movement that promoted science, knowledge, and reason. Led to question the British.