Vocabulary Terms:

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory,

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

advocates a change that will preserve the existing values but will provide improved means of implementing them.

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums

Question 6

Co-Education

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Abolitionist

Answer 7

a person who is in favor of abolishing especially slavery

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

something that is lost or hurt.

Question 9

Revolt

Answer 9

to rise up against the authority of a ruler or government.

Question 10

to rise up against the authority of a ruler or government.

Answer 10

an outbreak against authority.

Question 11

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 11

agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States

Question 12

Underground Railroad

Answer 12

refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters,

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

sporadic violence existed in the territory since 1855.

Question 15

Union Troops

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Confederacy

Answer 16

a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 17

issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

Answer 18

He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.

Question 19

Secession

Answer 19

the action of withdrawing formally

Question 20

Militia

Answer 20

an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional and/or part-time soldiers

Question 21

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 21

marked the official beginning of the American Civil War

Question 22

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 22

a stream running through the battlefield.

Question 23

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 23

a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War.

Question 24

Battle of Antietam

Answer 24

pitted Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 25

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 25

it involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war’s turning point.

Question 26

Gettysburg Address

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declared that the United States had to stand as a country where all men are created equal and should be treated as equals.

Question 27

Appomattox Court House

Answer 27

site in Virginia of the surrender of the Confederate forces to those of the North on April 9, 1865.

Question 28

Surrender

Answer 28

to give up or hand over

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”Jan 28, 2022

Question 30

13th Amendment

Answer 30

the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States

Question 31

US Civil War

Answer 31

fought between the Northern and the Southern states from 1861-1865.

Question 32

Reconstruction

Answer 32

after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 33

Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Enacted after the Civil War.

Question 34

Segregation

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 35

outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

Question 36

Amnesty

Answer 36

to grant a pardon to those who have committed an offense.

Question 37

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Freedman

Answer 38

a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery,

Question 39

Integrate

Answer 39

equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution.

Question 40

Sharecropping

Answer 40

giving a part of each crop as rent.

Question 41

Lynching