Civil war + Reconstruction Flashcards
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Reform
make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
Nativist
relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Steam Engine
an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.
Reform Movement
A movement is a group of individuals dedicated to the advancement of a common idea or cause. A reform movement is a group of individuals focused on social change by advancing a common cause, whether political, religious, humanitarian, or other.
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections.
Co-Education
the education of both male and female students at the same institution.
Abolitionist
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
Casualty
a person killed or injured in a war or 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
Prohibition
the action of forbidding something, especially by law.
Three Fifths Compromise
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad. A network of abolitionists that secretly helped slaves escape to freedom by setting up hiding places and routes to the North.
Dred Scott Decision
It declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, The decision that slaves were property and not citizens and therefore had no rights infuriated the North, Essentially, it was yet another factor that brought the North-South divide to a head and contributed to the Civil War.
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
During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.
Confederacy
a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
Abraham Lincoln
Definitions of Abraham Lincoln. 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) synonyms: Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a Mexican War hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war and president of the Confederate States of America for the duration of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Secession
Secession. The withdrawl from the union of 11 southern dtates in the period 1860-61 which brought on the civil war. Articles of secession. A document that claimed the federal government had not and would not protect the rights of sc. Abraham lincoln.
Militia
Militia- A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution.
Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter. Definition: South Carolina location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War in April of 1861, after Union forces attempted to provision the fort. Significance: South ignited the fighting of the Civil War, provoked North to assemble army.
Battle of Bull Run
First Battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1861- First major battle of the Civil War, in which untrained Northern troops and civilian picnickers fled back to Washington. This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war.
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was fought between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. It was fought over two days from April 6 to April 7 in 1862. It took place in southwestern Tennessee and it was the first major battle to take place in the western theater of war. 1 / 19. 1 / 19.
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam. (1862) a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history; Stopped Lee’s 1st invasion of Maryland; cornfield, bloody lane, Burnside’s Bridge; served as the “victory” Lincoln needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. General McClellan.
