Civil War + Reconstruction

Question 1

Reform

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the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.:

Question 2

Nativist

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a person who urges the promotion of the interests of inhabitants born in a country over those of immigrants:

Question 3

Steam Engine

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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

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A reform movement or reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also political system closer to the community’s ideal.

Question 5

Suffrage

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the right to vote, especially in a political election.

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Co-Education

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a system of education where males and females are educated 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 slavery.

Question 8

Casualty

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a person killed or injured in a war or accident.

Question 9

Revolt

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rise in rebellion.

Question 10

Prohibition

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officially banning the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in America

Question 11

Three Fifths Compromise

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. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Question 12

Popular sovereignty

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is a government based on the consent of the people.

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Underground Railroad

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

Question 14

Dred Scott Decision

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having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.

Question 15

Bleeding Kansas

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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

Question 16

Union Troops

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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

Question 17

Confederacy

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a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Question 18

abraham lincoln

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As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Question 19

Jefferson Davis

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an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States 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 20

Secession

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the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Question 21

Militia

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a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

Question 22

Battle of Fort Sumter

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was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.

Question 23

Battle 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 sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody.

Question 24

Battle of Shiloh

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Two Union armies combined to defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi. Major General Ulysses S. Grant was the Union commander, while General Albert Sidney Johnston was the Confederate commander.

Question 25

Battle of Antietam

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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 26

Battle of Gettysburg

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The Battle of Gettysburg marked the turning point of the Civil War. With more than 50,000 estimated casualties, the three-day engagement was the bloodiest single battle of the conflict.

Question 27

Gettysburg Address

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Abraham Lincoln delivered remarks, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. Though he was not the featured orator that day, Lincoln’s brief address would be remembered as one of the most important speeches in American history.

Question 28

Appomattox Court House

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The Appomattox Court House cultural landscape marks the beginning of the country’s transition to peace and reunification following four years of the Civil War.

Question 29

Surrender

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To cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.

Question 30

Emancipation Proclamation

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

Question 31

13th Amendment

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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 32

US Civil War

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The United States Civil War was a brutal war that lasted from 1861 to 1865. It left the South economically devastated, and resulted in the criminalization of slavery in the United States

Question 32

Reconstruction

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Was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

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Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.

Question 34

Segregation

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

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to the representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

Question 36

Amnesty

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an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

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Ten Percent Plan

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a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.

Question 38

Freedman

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A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

Question 39

Integrate

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combine one thing with another so that they become a whole.

Question 40

Sharecropping

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is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. This encouraged tenants to work to produce the biggest harvest that they could, and ensured they would remain tied to the land and unlikely to leave for other opportunities.

Question 41

Lynching

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Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people Lynchings typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutalities, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration.