Civil War + Reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, 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 group of individuals advocating for social change through the advancement of a common cause.

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

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(especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.

Question 7

Casualty

Answer 7

a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because their whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.

Question 8

Revolt

Answer 8

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 8

Prohibition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Underground Railroad

Answer 10

(often initial capital letters)U.S. History. (before the abolition of slavery) a system for helping African Americans fleeing slavery to escape into Canada or other places of safety.

Question 11

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 11

1795?–1858, an enslaved Black man whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court (Dred Scott Decision ) on the grounds that enslaved Africans and their descendants were not citizens within the meaning of the Constitution and therefore could not sue in a federal court.

Question 12

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Union Troops

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Confederacy

Answer 14

a group of persons, parties, states, etc., united by such a confederacy.

Question 15

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.

Question 16

Jefferson Davis

Answer 16

Jefferson Finis Davis, 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 17

Secession

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(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 18

Militia

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a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers.

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

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 18

The first land battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, just 30 miles from Washington—close enough for U.S. senators to witness the battle in person. Southerners called it the Battle of Manassas, after the closest town. Northerners called it Bull Run, after a stream running through the battlefield.

Question 19

Battle of Shiloh

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second great engagement of the American Civil War, fought in southwestern Tennessee, resulting in a victory for the North and in large casualties for both sides.

Question 20

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 21

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 22

Gettysburg Address

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a speech delivered in 1863 by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,

Question 22

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 23

Surrender

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Emancipation Proclamation

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

Question 25

13th Amendment

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

Question 26

US Civil War

Answer 26

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 27

Reconstruction

Answer 27

the action of reconstructing

Question 27

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Segregation

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the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender.

Question 29

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 29

outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

Question 30

Amnesty

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

Question 31

Ten Percent Plan

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His “Ten Percent Plan” required that 10% of the voters within the Confederate states swear allegiance to the Union and recognize the emancipation of former slaves. Lincoln also planned to pardon all members of the Confederate states, except the highest-ranking military and civil officers.

Question 32

Freedman

Answer 32

a person freed from slavery.

Question 33

Integrate

Answer 33

to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.

Question 34

Sharecropping

Answer 34

a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

Question 35

Lynching

Answer 35

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