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Reform

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The abolition of slavery

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Nativist

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the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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Steam Engine

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a way to turn heat into motion.

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Reform Movement

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advocates a change that will preserve the existing values but will provide improved means of implementing them.

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Suffrage

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the right to vote in public elections

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Co-Education

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

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Abolitionist

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a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery

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Casualty

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a person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed

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Revolt

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to rise up against the authority of a ruler or government

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Prohibition

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when my mom placed a prohibition on watching TV during dinner

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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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slavery legal in all the territories

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Bleeding Kansas

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Abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers fought about whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.

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Union Troops

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

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Confederacy

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a group of people, countries, organizations, etc. joined together for a common purpose or by a common interes

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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis was a celebrated veteran of the Mexican War

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Secession

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the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity

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Militia

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a band of civilians trained to do army type business, without officially joining the army.

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Battle of Fort Sumter

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marked the official beginning of the American Civil War

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Battle of Bull Run

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a stream running through the battlefield.

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Battle of Shiloh

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

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Battle of Antietam

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one of the key turning points of the American Civil War.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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the war’s turning point.

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Gettysburg Address

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Less than 275 words in length, Lincoln’s three-minute-long Gettysburg Address defined the meaning of the Civil War.

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Appomattox Court House

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

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Surrender

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to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.

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13th Amendment

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abolished slavery in the United States

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US Civil War

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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.

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Reconstruction

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the action of reconstructing

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Jim Crow Laws

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mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others

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Segregation

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the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means.

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

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outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states

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Amnesty

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The government gave amnesty to all political prisoners

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Ten Percent Plan

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allowed Southern states a pathway to reconstruction once 10 percent of citizens agreed to swear an oath to the union and agree to abolish slavery.

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Freedman

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a person freed from slavery.

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Integrate

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to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole

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Sharecropping

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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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the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process

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