Civil War+ Reeconstruction

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

Question 5

Suffrage

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the right to vote, especially in a political election.

Question 6

Co-Education

Answer 6

What is the meaning of co educational?
having male and female students being taught together in the same school or college rather than separately

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 8

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 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

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

Question 11

Three Fifth’s 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

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

Question 13

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 14

Bleeding Kansas

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when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29

Question 15

Union troops

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

Question 16

Confederacy

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

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

16th President of the United States

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

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efferson Davis was a celebrated veteran of the Mexican War (1846–1848), a U.S. senator from Mississippi (1847–1851; 1857–1861), secretary of war under U.S. president Franklin Pierce (1853–1857), and the only president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

Question 19

Secession

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an act or instance of seceding.

Question 20

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 21

Battle of fort Sumter

Answer 21

The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War—a war that lasted four years, cost the lives of more than 620,000 Americans, and freed 3.9 million enslaved people from bondage.

Question 22

Battle of Bull Run

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the first full-scale battle of the Civil War.

Question 23

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 24

Battle of Antietam

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Antietam, the deadliest one-day battle in American military history, showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater. It also gave President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation at a moment of strength rather than desperation.

Question 25

Battle of Gettysburg

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described as the war’s turning point.

Question 26

Gettysburg Address

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

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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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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The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Question 31

US Civil War

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fought over the moral issue of slavery.

Question 32

Reconstruction

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the act or process of rebuilding, repairing, or restoring something. reconstruction efforts to repair hurricane damage. the reconstruction of the dam.

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.

Question 34

Segregation

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the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means.

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

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

Question 38

Freedman

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a person freed from slavery.

Question 39

Integrate

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to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole

Question 40

Sharecropping

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

Question 41

Lynching

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