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Civil War Test Study Guide Write on a separate sheet of paper Turn in on day of test 1. Seceding states believed that they had to leave the Union in order to do what? Use the chart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question. Causes of the Civil War The Long-term Causes Sectional economic and cultural differences Debate over expansion of slavery into the territories Political compromises failed to ease sectional differences and resolve questions of expanding slavery Missouri Compromise (1820) Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Laws increased sectional tension Fugitive Slave Act (1850) Dred Scott decision Tariff policy Growth of the anti-slavery movement Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Short-term Causes Kansas-Nebraska Act splits political parties Breakdown of the party system Lincoln elected president South Carolina secedes 2. What long-term causes directly influenced short-term causes? 3. After the Emancipation Proclamation, many African Americans did what? 4. How did sharecroppers pay the rent for the land they used? 5. Why was the Battle of Antietam important to the Civil War? 6. Describe the 13th Amendment. 7. How did the South attempt to compensate for its disadvantages? 8. How could Northern advantages primarily be categorized? 9. What is one geographic advantage the South had over the North during the Civil War? 10. What did Dred Scott give as the reason he should be free? 11. What was the goal of Reconstruction? 12. What was a key problem with the sharecropping system? 13. What did the south enact in the years immediately following the Civil War? 14. What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson? 15. Why was Vicksburg a strategic location for a Union victory? 16. Why did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry fail? 17. Describe the South’s economy at the end of the Civil War. 18. What were the Black Codes? 19. Describe Sherman’s March to the Sea. 20. Why did the House of Representatives impeach President Johnson? 21. The election of 1860 showed that the North and the South were two distinct political entities. How does the map above show this? 22. How did Hayes’s election effectively end Reconstruction? 23. The Missouri Compromise line was 36º30’N latitude. Slavery was prohibited above this line in what territory? 24. The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed thewhat flaw in American society? 25. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncles Tom’s Cabin infuriated the South due to what reasons? 26. Under the new Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850, Southerners could do what? 27. The Supreme Court said that because the US Constitution protected people for having their property taken by the government… 28. During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan committed what actions? 29. Which of the following was a strategy of the Confederate government? Use the chart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions. 30. How was the issue of slavery decided in the territory ceded by Mexico? Answer all 50 questions’ answers on a separate sheet of paper. Civil War Test Study Guide Write on a separate sheet of paper 31. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 angered Northerners due to what reasons? 32. What events directly caused the outbreak of the Civil War? 33. Reconstruction was successful in what ways? 34. What was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 35. In the late 1840s, what led to the question of whether slavery should expand to the territories? Use the map and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions. Turn in on day of test 41. Describe the 14th Amendment 42. Why did the Freedmen’s Bureau have to take back land they had given to freed slaves? 43. Why did South Carolina secede from the Union? 44. The Freedmen’s Bureau was meant to help what group of people? 45. What did the Wilmot Proviso ask for? 46. The territories of the Mexican Cession received popular sovereignty. What does this mean? 47. Why was abolitionist John Brown executed? 48. The term “Bleeding Kansas” can be attributed to what? 49. What was Abolitionists belief on slavery? 50. The Emancipation Proclamation freed who? 36. What was the final Northern destination for most people escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad? 37. How did African Americans support the war effort? 38. During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the 15th amendment was adopted to grant African American males what right? 39. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the South never attempted to do what again? 40. Using your knowledge and the textbook, fillout the missing block with the correct event. Answer all 50 questions’ answers on a separate sheet of paper. Civil War Test Study Guide Write on a separate sheet of paper Turn in on day of test Answer all 50 questions’ answers on a separate sheet of paper.