Civil War + Reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory

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

Reform movements bring issues into public discussion. One set of reformers will usually generate opposing groups who often use the same techniques to persuade public opinion and elected officials.

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

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

Prohibition

Answer 9

the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption

Question 10

Revolt

Answer 10

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 11

Underground Railroad

Answer 11

a system for helping African Americans fleeing slavery to escape into Canada or other places of safety.

Question 11

Union Troops

Answer 11

a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War

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

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 12

upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

Question 13

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 13

a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859

Question 14

Confederacy

Answer 14

an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose.

Question 15

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 15

issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.

Question 16

Jefferson Davis

Answer 16

During the Civil War, Davis guided the Confederacy’s policies and served as its commander in chief.

Question 17

Secession

Answer 17

(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 17

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 17

Federal forces under General Irwin McDowell attempted to flank Confederate positions by crossing Bull Run but were turned back. The end result of the battle was a Confederate victory and Federal forces retreated to the defenses of Washington, DC.

Question 18

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 18

The Battle of Shiloh fought was the bloodiest battle fought during the American Civil War up to that point in the conflict. Fought on April 6-7, 1862, the two days of carnage led to around 23,000 casualties, making it the deadliest battle of the Civil War up to that point.

Question 18

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 18

forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Question 18

Militia

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Battle of Antietam

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 20

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 21

Gettysburg Address

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the notable short speech made by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.

Question 22

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 23

Surrender

Answer 23

to give oneself up, as into the power of another; submit or yield.

Question 24

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 24

the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, that freed the people held as slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union from January 1, 1863, forward.

Question 25

13th Amendment

Answer 25

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery.

Question 26

US Civil War

Answer 26

the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery.

Question 27

Reconstruction

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 28

any state law discriminating against Black persons.

Question 29

Segregation

Answer 29

the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.

Question 30

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 30

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

Question 30

Amnesty

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 31

allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths

Question 32

Freedman

Answer 32

a man who has been freed from slavery.

Question 33

Integrate

Answer 33

to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do.

Question 34

Sharecropping

Answer 34

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 35

Lynching

Answer 35

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