Civil War + Reconstruction Flashcards
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Reform
to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, 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 group of individuals advocating for social change through the advancement of a common cause.
Suffrage
the right to vote, especially in a political election.
Co-Education
the education of students of both sexes together.
Abolitionist
(especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
Casualty
a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because their whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
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 legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.
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
(often initial capital letters)U.S. History. (before the abolition of slavery) a system for helping African Americans fleeing slavery to escape into Canada or other places of safety.
Dred Scott Decision
1795?–1858, an enslaved Black man whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court (Dred Scott Decision ) on the grounds that enslaved Africans and their descendants were not citizens within the meaning of the Constitution and therefore could not sue in a federal court.
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 land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states
Confederacy
a group of persons, parties, states, etc., united by such a confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
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
(often initial capital letter)U.S. History. the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
Militia
a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers.
Battle of Fort Sumter
forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
Battle of Bull Run
The first land battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, just 30 miles from Washington—close enough for U.S. senators to witness the battle in person. Southerners called it the Battle of Manassas, after the closest town. Northerners called it Bull Run, after a stream running through the battlefield.
Battle of Shiloh
second great engagement of the American Civil War, fought in southwestern Tennessee, resulting in a victory for the North and in large casualties for both sides.
Battle of Antietam
pitted Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
