Civil war

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory,

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 worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.

Question 4

Reform Movement

Answer 4

a group of individuals advocating for social change through the advancement of a common cause.

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote, especially in a political election. A vote given in favor of a proposed measure, candidate, or the like.

Question 6

Co-Education

Answer 6

the education of both male and female students at the same institution. coeducational.

Question 7

Abolitionist

Answer 7

a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because their whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.

Question 9

Revolt

Answer 9

to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny

Question 10

Prohibition

Answer 10

the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.

Question 11

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 11

A compromise where every 5 enslaved people counted as 3 in the states population. Constitutional Convention. Leaders that came together to change the Articles of Confederation.

Question 12

Underground Railroad

Answer 12

a system for helping African Americans fleeing slavery to escape into Canada or other places of safety.

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

1795?–1858, an enslaved Black man whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court (Dred Scott Decision ) on the grounds that enslaved Africans and their descendants were not citizens within the meaning of the Constitution and therefore could not sue in a federal court.

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

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 15

Union Troops

Answer 15

the northern army during the American Civil War

Question 16

Confederacy

Answer 16

an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose.

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

Today Abraham Lincoln is widely recognized as one of the great American orators. He didn’t use lofty and verbose language, but rather Lincoln’s speeches were–and continue to be–powerful because they are clear and direct. His other trick was using very precise and powerful words

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

Answer 18

Jefferson Davis was a celebrated veteran of the Mexican War (1846–1848), a U.S. senator from Mississippi (1847–1851; 1857–1861), secretary of war under U.S. president Franklin Pierce (1853–1857), and the only president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

Question 19

Secession

Answer 19

an act or instance of seceding.

Question 19

Militia

Answer 19

a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.

Question 20

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 20

opening the Civil War, which redefined American freedom.

Question 21

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 21

the first full-scale battle of the Civil War.

Question 22

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 22

ended the Confederacy’s hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West.

Question 23

Battle of Antietam

Answer 23

pitted Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 24

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 24

fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

Question 25

Gettysburg Address

Answer 25

defined the meaning of the Civil War.

Question 26

Appomattox Court House

Answer 26

marks the beginning of the country’s transition to peace and reunification following four years of Civil

Question 27

Surrender

Answer 27

to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress

Question 28

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 28

declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Question 29

13th Amendment

Answer 29

abolished slavery in the United States.

Question 30

US Civil War

Answer 30

four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.

Question 30

Reconstruction

Answer 30

the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

Question 31

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 31

discrimination.
segregation.
apartheid.
prejudice.
separatism.
racism.
narrowness.
racialism.

Question 32

Segregation

Answer 32

the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender.

Question 33

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 33

outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

Question 34

Amnesty

Answer 34

to grant a pardon to those who have committed an offense.

Question 35

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 35

In December, President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.

Question 36

Freedman

Answer 36

formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

Question 37

Integrate

Answer 37

to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.

Question 38

Sharecropping

Answer 38

to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.