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Chapters 19-20 U.S. History Study Guide
Chapter 19:
1) Describe the circumstances of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853.
2) What was the significance of the concept of “organized territory?”
3) Who came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and what was it?
4) Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act significant? What were its consequences?
5) Describe the circumstances of the North-South contest for Kansas.
6) What was the Lecompton Constitution and how was it adopted?
7) Who was Dred Scott? AND What did the Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court determine?
8) Describe the Freeport Doctrine and its consequences.
9) How did Abraham Lincoln appeal to different groups of people during the campaign of 1860?
10) What was the consequence of Lincoln’s election as President?
11) What were the reasons for the secession of the first seven Southern states?
12) What was the Crittenden compromise about and how successful was it?
Chapter 20:
1) What was President Lincoln’s position on the secession?
2) Why was not just letting go of the seven secessionist states practical or acceptable?
3) Explain the circumstances of the attack on Fort Sumter?
4) Why was Fort Sumter important both for the Union and for the Confederacy?
5) What were the consequences of Fort Sumter’s surrender to the Confederacy?
6) What were the “Border States?”
7) Analyze the balance of forces between the North and the South.
8) Explain why Great Britain refused to directly support the Confederacy against the Union.
9) How did Great Britain nevertheless support the Confederacy?
10) How and why did President Lincoln restrict civil liberties during the Civil War? With what argument did
he justify his tyrannical actions? Was he right?
11) What were the roles of volunteers and the draft in the Civil War? How did it affect the South and state
rights?
12) What were some of the early economic stresses and consequences of the Civil War?