Civil War + Reconstruction

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

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 12

Underground Railroad

Answer 12

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

Most of the Union Army was made up of young white men born in North America. Although soldiers generally ranged in age from 18 to 45, boys as young as 12 often served as cavalry buglers or drummer boys, and some men in their fifties and sixties enlisted as privates. Most of the Union soldiers were under 30.

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 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.

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

Question 25

Battle of Gettysburg

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

Appromattox Court House

Answer 27

The Appomattox Court House cultural landscape marks the beginning of the country’s transition to peace and reunification following four years of Civil War. This is the site of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant in April, 1865.

Question 28

Surrender

Answer 28

to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress:

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 act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed:

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.

Question 34

Segregation

Answer 34

the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group:

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

a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.

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 man who has been freed from slavery.

Question 39

Integrate

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Sharecropping

Answer 40

A system of farming that developed in the South after the Civil War, when landowners, many of whom had formerly held slaves, lacked the cash to pay wages to farm laborers, many of whom were former slaves. The system called for dividing the crop into three shares — one for the landowner, one for the worker, and one for whoever provided seeds, fertilizer, and farm equipment.

Question 41

Lynching

Answer 41

to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority: