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Blood Drawn Study Guide – Chapter Four
1. Who wrote the compromise that was created in which both the North and the South could accept?
2. Who was the person known to favor political reform, anti-slavery legislation, and was a leading American editor?
3. List the “long-term” causes of the Civil War.
4. Define conscription.
5. Why did the South feel that an attack on slavery was an attack on the southern people?
6. What was Lincoln’s attitude towards the Civil War halfway through the war?
7. Define the 13th / 14th / and 15th Amendments.
8. Define scalawags:
9. Define carpetbaggers:
10. Why did Reconstruction fail?
11. Who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?
12. Define Reconstruction:
13. Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
14. What did the Supreme Court declare about the Dred Scott decision?
15. Which area did he South have an advantage over the North during the Civil War?
16. What was the key difference between the North and the South that ultimately led to the Civil War?
17. List the Union’s three-part plan to conquer the South.
18. What was the important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
19. What was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal when the Civil War began?
20. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
21. What was an example of “total war” from the Civil War?
22. What state was the first to secede from the union?
23. Define secession:
24. What were the turning points of the Civil War?
25. Define popular sovereignty:
26. Define sharecropping: the division of land amongst freed slaves
27. Define income tax:
Matching
28. the Union general who burned a path of destruction through Georgia
a. Ulysses S. Grant
29. wrote a novel that incited protests against the Fugitive Slave Act
b. William Tecumseh Sherman
30. general who surrendered the Confederate Army to Union forces
c. Harriet Tubman
31.conductor on the Underground Railroad
d. Abraham Lincoln
32. general who won a Vicksburg and became commander of all Union armies
e. Robert E. Lee
33. U.S. Senator who debated Abraham Lincoln on slavery in the territories
ab. Stephen A. Douglas
34. Republican who won the presidency in 1860
ac. Harriet Beecher Stowe