Civil War + Reconstruction

Question 1

Nativist

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a person who urges the promotion of the interests of inhabitants born in a country over those of immigrants:

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Reform

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the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.:
social reform; spelling reform.

Question 2

steam Engine

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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 3

Reform Movement

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a group of individuals focused on social change by advancing a common cause, whether political, religious, humanitarian, or other.

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Suffrage

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a vote given in assent to a proposal or in favor of the election of a particular person.
plural noun: suffrages

Question 5

Co-Education

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

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Casualty

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

Question 6

Abolitionist

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

Question 7

Prohibition

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noun
a person who favors or advocates prohibition.

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Revolt

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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 9

Underground Railroad

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Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.

Question 10

Three Fifths Compromise

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

Question 11

Dred Scott Decision

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Dred [dred], 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

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Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29

Question 13

Union Troops

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

Question 14

Confederacy

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a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Question 15

Abraham Lincoln

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Abbey Anna Marie Gaby Wooldridge; Aminata Moseka, 1930–2010, U.S. jazz singer, activist, and actress.

Question 16

Jefferson Davis

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Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.

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Secession

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

Question 18

Militia

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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 Fort Sumter

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opening the Civil War, which redefined American freedom.

Question 20

Battle of Bull Run

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the first full-scale battle of the Civil War.

Question 21

Battle of Shiloh

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ended the Confederacy’s hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West.

Question 22

Battle of Antietam

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one of the key turning points of the American Civil War.

Question 23

Battle of Gettysburg

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the war’s turning point

Question 24

Gettysburg Address

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the sacrifice of over fifty thousand men who laid down their lives in the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 25

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

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Surrender

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

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Emancipation Proclamation

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

Question 28

13th Amendment

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abolished slavery in the United States.

Question 29

US Civil War

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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 30

Reconstruction

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the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed.

Question 31

Jim Crow Laws

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

Question 32

Segregation

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

Question 33

Reconstruction Act of 1867

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outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

Question 34

Amnesty

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

Question 35

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.May

Question 36

Freedman

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an emancipated slave.

Question 37

Integrate

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

Question 38

Sharecropping

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

Question 39

Lynching

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