Civil War + Reconstruction Flashcards
(41 cards)
reform
the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.:
Nativist
a person who urges the promotion of the interests of inhabitants born in a country over those of immigrants:
Steam Engine
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.
Reform Movement
a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community’s ideal.
Suffrage
the right to vote, especially in a political election.
Co-Education
the education of students of both races together.
casualty
one who is injured or killed in an accident
Revolt
to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny
abolition
a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
Prohibition
the act of prohibiting.
Three Fifths Compromise
three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.
Underground Railroad
the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
Confederacy
included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia
Dred Scott Decision
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Bleeding Kansas
a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859
Union Troops
the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states
Abraham Lincoln
As the war drew to a close with the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865, and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, there were Southern sympathizers who believed that the Confederacy could be restored. John Wilkes Booth held that belief, and it was the motive behind his plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician and soldier born in Kentucky and raised in Mississippi
Secession
the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
Militia
a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
Battle of Fort Sumter
forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the fort surrendered. No one was killed
Battle of Bull Run
a Confederate victory and Federal forces retreated to the defenses of Washington, DC
Battle of Shiloh
United States (Union) victory over Confederate forces
Battle of Antietam
ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
