Civil War

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.:

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 type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community’s ideal.

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote, especially in a political election.

Question 6

Co-Education

Answer 6

the education of students of both sexes together.

Question 7

Abolitionist

Answer 7

(especially prior to the Civil War) 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 act of prohibiting.

Question 11

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Underground Railroad

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Union Troops

Answer 15

the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states,

Question 16

Confederacy

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

Question 18

Jefferson F. Davis

Answer 18

Jefferson F. Davis was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.

Question 19

Secession

Answer 19

(often initial capital letter)U.S. History. the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.

Question 20

Militia

Answer 20

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