Civil War + Reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

amended by removal of faults, abuses, etc..

Question 2

Nativist

Answer 2

Someone who likes people born in their country, not immigrants

Question 3

Steam Engine

Answer 3

a locomotive with an engine worked by steam

Question 4

Reform Movement

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a group of individuals advocating for social change through the advancement of a common cause

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote

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Co-education

Answer 6

the education of students of both sexes together

Question 7

Abolitionist

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a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

a person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed/victim

Question 9

Revolt

Answer 9

to rise up against the authority of a ruler or government

Question 10

Prohibition

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the ban of alchohol

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 way African Americans escaped to the north and Canada

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

The Dred Scott decision is one of the most controversial court rulings in US history. In 1836, a slave named Dred Scott sued for his freedom. The US Supreme Court ruled against him, deciding that he who descended from slaves was not an American citizen

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas

Question 15

Union Troops

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

Question 16

Confederacy

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

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16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

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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 act of becoming independent and no longer part of a country, area, organization, etc

Question 20

Militia

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Volunteer Soldiers

Question 21

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

Question 22

Battle of Bull Run

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the first full-scale battle of the Civil War

Question 23

Battle of Shiloh

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also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior

Question 24

Battle of Antietam

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a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland

Question 25

Battle of Gettysburg

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fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War

Question 26

Gettysburg Address

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a short speech reminding why the Civil War was fought and honoring the sacrifice of the many men who had died fighting it given by A. Lincoln

Question 27

Appomattox Court House

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A village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War

Question 28

Surrender

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to give over to the power, control, or possession of another especially by force

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

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proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free” and was created by A. Lincoln

Question 30

13th Amendment

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abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories

Question 31

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

Question 32

Reconstruction

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the action of reconstructing

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

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state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation,

Question 34

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

Question 35

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 act of clemency by an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted especially to a group of individuals

Question 37

Ten Percent Plan

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required that 10% of the voters within the Confederate states swear allegiance to the Union and recognize the emancipation of former slaves

Question 38

Freedman

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a person freed from slavery

Question 39

Integrate

Answer 39

to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole

Question 40

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 41

Lynching

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