Civil Rights + Reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt

Question 2

Nativist

Answer 2

a person who urges the promotion of the interests of inhabitants born in a country over those of immigrants

Question 3

Steam Engine

Answer 3

An engine powered worked by steam

Question 4

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 4

First fired shots of the Civil War. (Confederate Victory, fought in South Carolina)

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote, especially in a political election.

Question 6

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 6

1861- 1st MAJOR battle of Civil War; proved war was going to be long and costly

Question 7

Co-Education

Answer 7

the education of students of both sexes together.

Question 8

Abolitionist

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 9

Confederate forces surprised Union troops & drove them across Tennessee; Union carried on and won the battle, but it was one of the most bloody battles in the Civil War

Question 10

Casualty

Answer 10

a person killed or injured in a war or accident.

Question 11

Revolt

Answer 11

To rise in Rebellion

Question 12

Prohibition

Answer 12

the action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Question 13

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 13

Three of every five slaves were counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Question 14

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 14

Popular sovereignty is a government based on the consent of the people.

Question 15

Battle of Antietam

Answer 15

Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in stopping Lee’s Confederate forces in Maryland. Was THE bloodiest battle of the war, resulting in 25,000 casualties.

Question 16

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 16

The turning point of the Civil War that had made it clear the North would win. (50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade in the North.)

Question 17

Underground Railroad

Answer 17

A network of people offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.

Question 18

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 18

Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.

Question 19

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 19

pro-slavery, Free-Staters, and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29.

Question 20

Gettysburg Adress

Answer 20

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that was later known as the Gettysburg Address. This speech was dedicated to honoring the people during the Civil War and encapsulating everything the U.S. was struggling with at the time.

Question 21

Union Troops

Answer 21

the northern army during the American Civil War

Question 22

Appomattox Court House

Answer 22

Famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant (April 9, 1865)

Question 23

Confederacy

Answer 23

a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Question 24

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 24

The 16th President of the United States

Question 25

Jefferson Davis

Answer 25

American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States

Question 26

secession

Answer 26

the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Question 27

militia

Answer 27

a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

Question 28

Surrender

Answer 28

to yield (something) to the possession or power of another: deliver up possession of on demand or under duress.

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

Proclamation issued by President Lincoln; freeing all slaves in the areas still at war with the Union

Question 30

13 Amendment

Answer 30

Abolished/ended slavery

Question 31

US Civil War

Answer 31

The violent conflict between Union (North) and Confederate (South) forces over states rights and slavery

Question 32

Reconstruction

Answer 32

The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

Question 33

Lynching

Answer 33

(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

Question 34

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 34

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Question 35

Sharecrop(ing)

Answer 35

(of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.

Question 36

integrate

Answer 36

combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.

Question 37

Segregation

Answer 37

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Question 38

Freedman

Answer 38

an emancipated slave.

Question 39

Reconstruction act of 1867

Answer 39

Necessary requirements for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union

Question 40

Amnesty

Answer 40

A general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution

Question 41

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 41

A plan enacted by President Abraham Lincoln in Union-controlled Louisiana in 1863 that offered an amnesty and full restoration of rights, including property except for slaves, to nearly all white southerners who took an oath affirming loyalty to the Union and support for emancipation; when 10 percent of the voters of 1860 had taken the oath, they could elect a new state government, which would be required to abolish slavery.

Question 42

Freedman

Answer 42

A person who has been freed from slavery

Question 43

Integrate

Answer 43

To bring together and make whole

Question 44

Sharecropping

Answer 44

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

Question 45

Lynching

Answer 45

putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law