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Match the term with the definition. a device, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, that separated the seeds from raw cotton quickly and easily the name American Patriots gave to the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act a revival of evangelical Protestantism in the early nineteenth century the twelve-year period after the Civil War in which the rebel Southern states were integrated back into the Union a society in which women have political power a White vigilante organization that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of stopping Reconstruction an 1857 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that Black people could not be citizens and Congress had no jurisdiction to impede the expansion of slavery four acts ( Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Port Act, Quartering Act) that Lord North passed to punish Massachusetts for destroying the tea and refusing to pay for the damage a reference to the violent clashes in Kansas between Free-Soilers and slavery supporters a social movement encouraging moderation or self- restraint in the consumption of alcoholic beverages a campaign by the Catholic Church to root out heresy , especially among converted Jews and Muslims a term meaning "before the war " and used to describe the decades before the American Civil War began in 1861 signed on January 1, 1863 , the document with which President Lincoln transformed the Civil War into a struggle to end slavery

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Here are the terms matched with their definitions:

  1. Cotton Gin: a device, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, that separated the seeds from raw cotton quickly and easily
  2. Intolerable Acts: the name American Patriots gave to the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act
  3. Second Great Awakening: a revival of evangelical Protestantism in the early nineteenth century
  4. Reconstruction: the twelve-year period after the Civil War in which the rebel Southern states were integrated back into the Union
  5. Matriarchy: a society in which women have political power
  6. Ku Klux Klan: a White vigilante organization that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of stopping Reconstruction
  7. Dred Scott v. Sandford: an 1857 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that Black people could not be citizens and Congress had no jurisdiction to impede the expansion of slavery
  8. Coercive Acts: four acts (Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Port Act, Quartering Act) that Lord North passed to punish Massachusetts for destroying the tea and refusing to pay for the damage
  9. Bleeding Kansas: a reference to the violent clashes in Kansas between Free-Soilers and slavery supporters
  10. Temperance Movement: a social movement encouraging moderation or self-restraint in the consumption of alcoholic beverages
  11. Inquisition: a campaign by the Catholic Church to root out heresy, especially among converted Jews and Muslims
  12. Antebellum: a term meaning "before the war" and used to describe the decades before the American Civil War began in 1861
  13. Emancipation Proclamation: signed on January 1, 1863, the document with which President Lincoln transformed the Civil War into a struggle to end slavery