civil war

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Reform

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The abolition of slavery

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Nativist

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the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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Steam Engine

Answer 3

a way to turn heat into motion.

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Reform Movement

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

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Suffrage

Answer 5

the right to vote in public elections

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Co-Education

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

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Abolitionist

Answer 7

a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

a person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed

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Revolt

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to rise up against the authority of a ruler or government

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Prohibition

Answer 10

when my mom placed a prohibition on watching TV during dinner

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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

Answer 12

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

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Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

slavery legal in all the territories

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Bleeding Kansas

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Abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers fought about whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.

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Union Troops

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

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Confederacy

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a group of people, countries, organizations, etc. joined together for a common purpose or by a common interes

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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis was a celebrated veteran of the Mexican War

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Secession

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the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity

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Militia

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a band of civilians trained to do army type business, without officially joining the army.

Question 21

Battle of Fort Sumter

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marked the official beginning of the American Civil War

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Battle of Bull Run

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a stream running through the battlefield.

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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

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Battle of Antietam

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

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Battle of Gettysburg

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the war's turning point.

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Gettysburg Address

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Less than 275 words in length, Lincoln's three-minute-long Gettysburg Address defined the meaning of the Civil War.

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

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Surrender

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to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand.

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

About 9,860,000 results (0.30 seconds) President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.

Question 30

13th Amendment

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abolished slavery in the United States

Question 31

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 32

Reconstruction

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the action of reconstructing

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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

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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.

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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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The government gave amnesty to all political prisoners

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Ten Percent Plan

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allowed Southern states a pathway to reconstruction once 10 percent of citizens agreed to swear an oath to the union and agree to abolish slavery.

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

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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

Question 41

Lynching

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