Civil war + Reconstruction vocabulary

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Reform

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make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

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nativist

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relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

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steam engine

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Machine that uses steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat

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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

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the right to vote in political 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

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a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery

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casualty

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a person killed or injured in a war or accident

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revolt

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rise in rebellion.

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prohibition

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the action of forbidding something, especially by law

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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

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

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Dred Scott decision

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that a slave who had resided in a free state

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Bleeding kansas

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of the blood shed by pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups

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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 league or alliance, especially of confederate states

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Abraham Lincoln

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Jefferson Davis

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secession

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militia

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Battle of fort Sumter

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battle of shiloh

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battle of bull run

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battle of Antietam

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Gettysburg address

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Appomattox court house

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where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865,

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surrender

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

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Emancipation Proclamation

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all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward

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13th Amendment

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13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States

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US Civil War

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he United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States

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Reconstitution

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the action of reconstructing

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Jim Cow Laws

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Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation

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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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outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states

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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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allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths

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Freedman

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an emancipated slave

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Integrate

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combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole

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Sharecropping

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(of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.

Question 41

Lynching

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(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial