Civil war + reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

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

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

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

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums

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Co Education

Answer 6

the education of students of both sexes together.

Question 7

Abolitionist

Answer 7

a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

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 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

a network of routes, places, and people that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to the North

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29

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

planter, politician and soldier

Question 19

Secession

Answer 19

the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States

Question 20

Militia

Answer 20

military organization of citizens with limited military training, which is available for emergency service, usually for local defense.

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.

Question 22

Battle of Bull Run

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a stream running through the battlefield.

Question 23

Battle of Shiloh

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The Battle of Shiloh, 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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pitted Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 25

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 25

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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The Gettysburg Address was a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the official dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery (now called the Gettysburg National Cemetery) at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Question 27

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 28

Surrender

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

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

Question 30

13th Amendment

Answer 30

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime

Question 31

US Civil War

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American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states

Question 32

Reconstruction

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a thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed.

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 legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from whites, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority and mainstream communities.

Question 35

Reconstruction Act of 1867

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outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

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

Answer 37

The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation

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

Answer 40

gerund or present participle

Question 41

Lynching

Answer 41

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