Civil War + Reconstruction

Question 1

reform

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Nativist

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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

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

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Suffrage

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the right to vote, especially in a political election.

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Co-Education

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the education of students of both races together.

Question 7

casualty

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one who is injured or killed in an accident

Question 8

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

Question 9

abolition

Answer 9

a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

Question 10

Prohibition

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the act of prohibiting.

Question 11

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.

Question 12

Underground Railroad

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Confederacy

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

Question 14

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

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

As the war drew to a close with the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865, and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, there were Southern sympathizers who believed that the Confederacy could be restored. John Wilkes Booth held that belief, and it was the motive behind his plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln.

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Finis Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician and soldier born in Kentucky and raised in Mississippi

Question 19

Secession

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

Question 20

Battle of Fort Sumter

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forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the fort surrendered. No one was killed

Question 21

Battle of Bull Run

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a Confederate victory and Federal forces retreated to the defenses of Washington, DC

Question 22

Battle of Shiloh

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United States (Union) victory over Confederate forces

Question 23

Battle of Antietam

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ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Question 24

Battle of Gettysburg

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The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great loss to the Confederate army. Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia

Question 25

Gettysburg Address

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to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War

Question 26

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

Question 27

Surrender

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the action of surrendering.

Question 28

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. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Question 29

The 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 the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Question 30

US Civil War

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A fight to end slavery

Question 31

Reconstruction

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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

Question 32

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, beginning in the 1870s

Question 33

Segregation

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

Question 34

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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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 formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

Question 38

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

Question 40

Lynching

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