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Reform
make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
“an opportunity to reform and restructure an antiquated schooling model”
Nativist
Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.
Steam Engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure …
Reform Movement
A reform movement or reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community’s ideal.
Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
Co-Education
Coeducation schooling, also called mixed-sex schooling, is the practice of educating males and females together. Single-sex schooling, on the other hand, refers to a form of education in which the two sexes are separated when teaching is conducted.
Abolitionist
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
“the abolitionist movement”
Casualty
a person killed or injured in a war or accident.
“the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties”
Revolt
rise in rebellion.
“the insurgents revolted and had to be suppressed”
Prohibition
Prohibition went into effect on January 17, 1920, officially banning the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors” for beverage purposes in America. No law, however, could suddenly transform the United States into a country of teetotalers. …
Three Fifths Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom. In essence, the decision argued that, as someone’s property, Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court.
Bleeding Kansas
Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.
Union Troops
The Union Soldier. Most of the Union Army was made up of young white men born in North America. Although soldiers generally ranged in age from 18 to 45, boys as young as 12 often served as cavalry buglers or drummer boys, and some men in their fifties and sixties enlisted as privates.
