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This amendment states the no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws." It drastically changed the three-fifths clause and was popular in the North. Many in the South were anxious to return to Congress and have a say.

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This amendment abolished slavery in the entire U.S. It did not, however, give them the right to vote. President Johnson refused to recognize a state as returning to the Union until it ratified the amendment.

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The KKK was originally a social club for Confederate veterans in Tennessee. It soon turned into a vigilante group that terrorized black people in the South. They were committed to ending Reconstruction and returning the South to the way it was.

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These were segregation laws that spread throughout the South. There motto was "separate but equal." This meant that schools, public facilities, transportation, and everything else were separated.

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This was much like slavery, but legal. Instead of working for money, former slaves worked for a share of the crop. They were provided with a house, farm animals, tools, and advanced credit. They just needed to give the landowner a share of the crop as well.

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Based in the South, they were a Republican Party organization led by African-Americans. They became a base for political action and support. They also offered opportunities to gain experience in the political process.

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These were laws passed by states denying most of the rights of citizenship to free African-Americans. They controlled their labor, mobility, and employment. They made it illegal for African-Americans to own guns or taxed guns at high rates.

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This agency was established to provide social, educational, and economic services to former slaves. They also gave them advice and protection. Lincoln used this as a distraction from the readmission of the Confederate stated into the Union.

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To what extent, and in what ways, did Reconstruction alter relationships between the states and the federal government, and lead to debates over new definitions of citizenship for minority groups?

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How did the growth of mass migration to the U.S., the end of slavery, and technology, including the railroad, and military developments transform the environment and settlement patterns in the South and the West?

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The riot mostly consisted of Irish immigrants. They were apposed to the enforced military draft and their protest broke out into violence. This soon turned into class and racial warfare.

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Since most of the fighting took place in the South, the economy in the North was more stable. They had also established a Treasury Department and tax system at the beginning of the war.

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The Confederates issued war bonds that paid 8 percent per year in interest when inflation was at 12 percent per month. This was not a good investment and even rich southerners didn't have much money to give. Their solution was to just print more money. This caused terrible inflation and increased the price of goods drastically.

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This decreed that all slaves in the Confederate states still in rebellion were to be freed. It didn't free a single slave when it was first issued because the South had seceded from the Union and didn't abide by the Constitution.

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This was a last-ditch effort at a compromise to amend the Constitution to protect slavery in states where it existed. The South wanted the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific and protect slavery in California. Lincoln refused and the South seceded.

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How did the Civil War struggle shape the American's beliefs about equality, democracy, and national destiny? To what extent, and in what ways, did the Civil War transform American political and social relationships?

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How did the maturing of northern manufacturing and the adherence of the South to an agricultural economy change the national economic system and impact the Civil War? How was the American conflict over slavery part of larger global events?

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Why did attempts at compromise before the war fail to prevent the conflict?

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How did migration to the U.S. and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny change popular ideas of American identity and citizenship, affect territorial expansion, cause conflict, and impact regional and racial identities?

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Americans believed that it was their God-given right to expand and spread Christianity across the continent. They began expanding west in order to fulfill God's will.

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The on-going wars and increase in population pushed many immigrants to America. Land had become scarce and famines spread due to poor nutrition and many people died of starvation. As a result, people migrated to the U.S. to help their families back home and have a better life.

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Texas enters the Union as a slave state after a war between the U.S. and Mexico. They fought over whether or not the Rio Grande was the border.

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This was a law passed creating the Kansas and Nebraska Territories. However. the question of slavery was left up to the local residents. They could decide whether or not to allow slavery.

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The gold rush in California caused many Americans to move west and pulled many Chinese immigrants to come and work. The gold rush strengthened the American belief that it was Gd's will for them to expand across the continent.

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This is the final acquisition of land in America within the contiguous 48 states. The U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.

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This treaty ended the U.S. war with Mexico. It also granted control of all of Texas, New Mexico, and California. The U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for all of Texas, California, and land as far south as San Diego.

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The potato famine in Ireland caused mass starvation and immigration to the U.S. Many people were able to pay for their trip over to the U.S.