20. The occasion of this speech was the dedication of a military cemetery at a battlefield after 51,000 soldiers were killed there four months earlier.
21. This was suspended during the Civil War to hold Confederate sympathizers without trial or a judge to agree that they were legally imprisoned.
23. Which reconstruction plan did Radical Republicans consider too lenient and did not go far enough to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves?
24. Congress and this president were at odds with one another during Reconstruction. He vetoed many bills and fired many Republicans from executive offices. Congress impeached him for ignoring the Tenure of Act.
25. This was created to help former slaves and homeless Whites by providing food, clothing, shelter, and medical assistance.
26. What laws were passed in southern states to deny newly freed slave certain rights?