Civil war + Reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

Question 2

Nativist

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relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Question 3

Steam Engine

Answer 3

an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.

Question 4

Reform Movement

Answer 4

A movement is a group of individuals dedicated to the advancement of a common idea or cause. A reform movement is a group of individuals focused on social change by advancing a common cause, whether political, religious, humanitarian, or other.

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote in political elections.

Question 6

Co-Education

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

Question 7

Abolitionist

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

Question 8

Casualty

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a person killed or injured in a war or accident.

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 action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Question 11

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 11

Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

Question 12

Underground Railroad

Answer 12

The Underground Railroad. A network of abolitionists that secretly helped slaves escape to freedom by setting up hiding places and routes to the North.

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

It declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, The decision that slaves were property and not citizens and therefore had no rights infuriated the North, Essentially, it was yet another factor that brought the North-South divide to a head and contributed to the Civil War.

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.

Question 15

Union Troops

Answer 15

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

Question 16

Confederacy

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a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

Definitions of Abraham Lincoln. 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) synonyms: Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln.

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a Mexican War hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war and president of the Confederate States of America for the duration of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Question 19

Secession

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Secession. The withdrawl from the union of 11 southern dtates in the period 1860-61 which brought on the civil war. Articles of secession. A document that claimed the federal government had not and would not protect the rights of sc. Abraham lincoln.

Question 20

Militia

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Militia- A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution.

Question 21

Battle of Fort Sumter

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Fort Sumter. Definition: South Carolina location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War in April of 1861, after Union forces attempted to provision the fort. Significance: South ignited the fighting of the Civil War, provoked North to assemble army.

Question 22

Battle of Bull Run

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First Battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1861- First major battle of the Civil War, in which untrained Northern troops and civilian picnickers fled back to Washington. This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war.

Question 23

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 23

The Battle of Shiloh was fought between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. It was fought over two days from April 6 to April 7 in 1862. It took place in southwestern Tennessee and it was the first major battle to take place in the western theater of war. 1 / 19. 1 / 19.

Question 24

Battle of Antietam

Answer 24

Battle of Antietam. (1862) a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history; Stopped Lee’s 1st invasion of Maryland; cornfield, bloody lane, Burnside’s Bridge; served as the “victory” Lincoln needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. General McClellan.

Question 25

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 25

Gettysburg. A large battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. The battle is named after the town on the battlefield. Union General George G. Meade led an army of about 90,000 men to victory against General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army of about 75,000.

Question 26

Gettysburg Address

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what is the gettysburg address? The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

Question 27

Appomattox Court House

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Appomattox courthouse. April 1865., the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the 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

View in National Archives Catalog. Español. 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

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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

Question 31

US Civil War

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The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war in the United States of America. It was fought when 11 Southern states left the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy). The US government and the states that remained loyal to it were called the Union. The Union won.

Question 32

Reconstruction

Answer 32

the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed.

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

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Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. Those who attempted to defy Jim Crow laws often faced arrest, fines, jail sentences, violence and death.

Question 34

Segregation

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

Question 35

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 35

Landmark Legislation: The Reconstruction Act of 1867. 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

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

Question 37

Ten Percent Plan

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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

an emancipated slave.

Question 39

Integrate

Answer 39

combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.

Question 40

Sharecropping

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(of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.

Question 41

Lynching

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(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.