The Civil War and Post War Matching 

Match the terms with their definitions. 

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The time period after the Civil War when the South was allowed to regain their statehood and rights as citizens of the United States.   

People had the right to make the laws that benefited the majority of their own state.   

The name chosen by the eleven southern slave states that seceded from the Union to form their own government.    

Elected leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War.  

Abraham Lincoln's document that ordered the slaves to be freed from the territories that were still at war with the Union.  

The Confederate military commander who surrendered, ending the Civil War.   

The Supreme Court ruling that said a slave could not be a citizen of the United States and later contributed to the start of the Civil War.  

The military commander who led the Union Army during the Civil War.  

A contractual  agreement where one person works for minimal or no wages to pay back money provided by another.  

A Supreme Court ruling that required public facilities for people of different races to be separate but equal.  

a.  Emancipation Proclamation 

b. Ulysses S. Grant 

c. Jefferson Davis 

d. Dred Scott Decision 

e. Robert E. Lee

f. indentured servitude 

g. Reconstruction Era

h. Plessy v. Ferguson 

i. popular sovereignty

j. Confederate States of America

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