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Pink= Made freedom for enslaved people more attainable Green= Solidified Slavery Triangle trade- a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another manumission- act of a slave owner freeing his or her slave fugitive slave law- a law that provided southern slave holders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to free states abolition- the action or act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution Gag Rule- A regulation or directive that prohibits public, discussion of a particular matter, in particular Reconstruction Amendments. 13th- Officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day 14th- All persons born or naturalized int eh U.S. are american citizen including African American 15th- prohibits each government in the U.S. from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens race, color, or previous condition of servitude.