Vocabulary 4/25/2018

Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. It declared that "all persons held as slaves … shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"

• Liberation

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Manifest Destiny

• independence

A union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states

• Union

• independence

• State

• Federal

A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially slavery.

• Federalist

• Emancipation

• Abolitionist

• Confederate

Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 2nd

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 3rd

Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

• 1st

• 15th

• 14th

• 13th

Refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States.

• Emancipation

• Rebuild

• Reconstruction

• Manifest Destiny

A republic formed in February, 1861, and composed of the 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in order to preserve slavery and states' rights.

• Union

• Confederate States

• North

• South

American actor and assassin, who murdered US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

• Zachary Taylor

• John Wilkes Booth

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E, Lee

The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.

• Corporation

• Distribution

• Annexation

• Secession