Civil war

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reform

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make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

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Nativist

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relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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Steam Engine

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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Reform Movement

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Reform movements bring issues into public discussion.

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Suffrage

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the right to vote in political elections.

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Co-Education

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the education of students of both sexes together.

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Abolitionist

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

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Casualty

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a person killed or injured in a war or accident.

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Revolt

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

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Prohibition

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legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933

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Three Fifths Compromise

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three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

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Underground Railroad

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the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War

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Dred Scott Decision

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upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

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Bleeding Kansas

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a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859.

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Union Troops

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During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states

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Confederacy

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The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia

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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, and also ended slavery.

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Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States.

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Secession

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

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Militia

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

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Battle of Fort Sumter

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The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia.

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Battle of Bull Run

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First Manassas · Fairfax County and Prince William County, VA | Jul 21, 1861 · Bull Run: Featured Resources · All battles of the Manassas Campaign - July 1861.

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Battle of Shiloh

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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior.

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Battle of Antietam

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Antietam, the deadliest one-day battle in American military history, showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Adams County, PA | Jul 1 - 3, 1863. The Battle of Gettysburg marked the turning point of the Civil War. With more than 50,000 estimated casualties.

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Gettysburg Address

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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Appomattox Court House

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The Visitor Center and McLean House will be closed on Wednesday, February 21 for staff training.

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Surrender

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cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863

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13th Amendment.

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The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof.

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US Civil War

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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union (“the North”) and the Confederacy

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Reconstruction

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The Reconstruction era (1861 to 1900), the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems

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Jim Crow Laws

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In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.

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Segregation

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the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

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Amnesty

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an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

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Ten Percent Plan

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allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths

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Freedman

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A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Integrate

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

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Sharecropping

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Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

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Lynching

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