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Question 1

Nativist

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relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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Steam Engine

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a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Reform Movement

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The nineteenth century was a time for social reform in the United States. Some historians have even labeled the period from 1830 to 1850 as the “Age of Reform. .

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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

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Co-Education

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the education of students of both sexes together.

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Abolitionist

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

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Casualty

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a person killed or injured in a war or accident.
“the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties

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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

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Prohibition

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legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933

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.

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Underground Railroad

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he resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War

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Dred Scott Decision

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

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Bleeding Kansas

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

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Union Troops

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At the start of the Civil War, the AGD numbered just fourteen Regular Officers: the Adjutant General (AG) with the rank of colonel

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Confederacy

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The Confederacy was formed on February 8, 1861, by seven slave states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,

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Abraham Lincoln

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He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years.

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Jefferson Davis

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was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States

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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.

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Militia

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The 1st Amendment Praetorians, founded by believer, are providing free security for “patriotic and …

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Battle of Fort Sumter

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he Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia.

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Battle of Bull Run

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Bull Run was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the .

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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.

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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.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Adams County, PA | Jul 1 - 3, 1863. The Battle of Gettysburg marked the turning point of the Civil War. With more than 50,000 estimated casualties, the three- …

Question 25

Gettysburg Address

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men

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Appomattox Court House

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The Visitor Center and McLean House will be closed on Wednesday, February 21 for staff training. The park grounds and the bookstore will remain open from 9:00 …

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Emancipation Proclamation

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863

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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

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Reconstruction

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the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems,

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US Civil War

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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union (“the North”) and the Confederacy (“the South”),

Question 30

Jim Crow Laws

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mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.

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Segregation

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the separation of races

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

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outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

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Amnesty

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an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
“an amnesty for political prisoners”

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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

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Freedman

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a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Lynching

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

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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