civil war

Question 1

reform

Answer 1

Reform is to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc. to cause (a person) to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct.

Question 2

Nativist

Answer 2

the practice or policy of favoring native-born citizens as against immigrants. the revival or preservation of a native culture.

Question 3

Steam Engine

Answer 3

A steam engine is a machine that uses heat and steam pressure to create mechanical motion. The steam engine was the first machine capable of converting thermal energy to mechanical energy while being convenient and practical.

Question 4

Reform Movement

Answer 4

Reform Movement is 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.

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.

Question 7

Abolitionist

Answer 7

a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery : an advocate of abolition.

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.

casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.

Question 9

Revolt

Answer 9

Revolt means to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.

Question 10

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 10

The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Question 11

Prohibition

Answer 11

Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.

Question 12

Underground Railroad

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The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Wherever slavery existed, there were efforts to escape.

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court 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

Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

Question 15

Union Troops

Answer 15

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

Question 16

Confederacy

Answer 16

The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Jefferson Davis was their President. Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri were called Border States. In 1865, the Union won the war.

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

Answer 18

Jefferson Davis (1808-89) was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, the nation formed in 1861 by the secession from the Union of 11 southern states.

Question 19

Secession

Answer 19

an act or instance of seceding.

(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

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Beginning in 1636 regiments were formed by region and county comprising of several companies within their designated geographic area. In times of war, the militia served as the immediate defense during an attack, or as a pool of available soldiers to be drafted for extended service.

Question 21

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 21

The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with its surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.

Question 22

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 22

The First Battle of Bull Run, called the Battle of First Manassas by Confederate forces, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The battle was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about thirty miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C.

Question 23

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 23

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war’s Western Theater.

Question 24

Battle of Antietam

Answer 24

The Battle of Antietam, or Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s

Question 25

The Battle of Gettysberg

Answer 25

The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Question 26

Gettysburg Address

Answer 26

The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National.

Question 27

Appomattox Court House

Answer 27

The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is a preserved 19th-century village in Appomattox County, Virginia.

Question 28

Surrender

Answer 28

What is surrender in spirituality?
To surrender in spirituality and religion means that a believer completely gives up his own will and subjects his thoughts, ideas, and deeds to the will and teachings of a higher power. It may also be contrasted with submission.]

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.

Question 30

13th Amendment

Answer 30

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Question 31

US Civil War

Answer 31

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union.

Question 32

Reconstruction

Answer 32

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, was a time of significant transformation within the United States.

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 33

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.

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, “Jim Crow” being a pejorative term for an African American. Such laws remained in force until 1965.

Question 34

Segregation

Answer 34

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.

Question 35

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 35

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

Question 36

Amnesty

Answer 36

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organisation says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world.

Question 37

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 37

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 38

Freedman

Answer 38

A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission, emancipation, or self-purchase. A fugitive slave is a person who escaped enslavement by fleeing.

Question 39

Integrate

Answer 39

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

to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do.

Question 40

Sharecropping

Answer 40

Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system.

Question 41

Lynching

Answer 41

Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate people.