Civil War + reconstruction

Question 1

reform

Answer 1

to make changes in.

Question 2

Nativity

Answer 2

an advocate or supporter

Question 3

Steam Engine

Answer 3

performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

Question 4

reform movement

Answer 4

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

Question 5

suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote in political elections.

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 favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

Question 8

causality

Answer 8

the connection between a cause and its result or consequence.

Question 9

revolt

Answer 9

to rise up against the authority of a ruler or government

Question 10

Prohibition

Answer 10

the action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Question 11

three fifths compromise

Answer 11

three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Question 12

the underground railway

Answer 12

refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage

Question 13

Dred Scott decision

Answer 13

invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

sporadic violence existed in the territory since 1855.

Question 15

union troops

Answer 15

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

Question 16

confederacy

Answer 16

a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

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

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

Answer 18

Jefferson Davis was a celebrated veteran of the Mexican War (1846–1848), a U.S. senator from Mississippi (1847–1851; 1857–1861), secretary of war under U.S. president Franklin Pierce (1853–1857), and the only president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

Question 19

Secession

Answer 19

the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Question 20

Militia

Answer 20

a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

Question 21

battle of fort Sumter

Answer 21

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 22

Battle of bull run

Answer 22

a stream running through the battlefield.

Question 23

battle of Shiloh

Answer 23

Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior.

Question 24

Antietam

Answer 24

that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater.

Question 25

battle of Gettysburg

Answer 25

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war’s turning point. Union Maj.

Question 26

the Gettysburg address

Answer 26

ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals.

Question 27

Appomattox Court House

Answer 27

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

Question 28

surrender

Answer 28

cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

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

Question 30

13th Amendment

Answer 30

abolished slavery in the United States.

Question 31

US Civil War

Answer 31

fought over the moral issue of slavery

Question 32

Reconstruction

Answer 32

the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed.

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

Question 34

Segregation

Answer 34

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