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Unit 5: The Civil War
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1. The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to
2. What was a result of the Compromise of 1850?
3. The Georgia Platform was a statement supporting
4. To whom did President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan deny a general pardon?
5. What was President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called?
6. What was the difference between Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan and the Radical Republican’s Reconstruction
Plan?
7. Why did President Johnson appoint James Johnson as provisional governor of Georgia in 1865?
8. How are tenant farmers different from sharecroppers?
9. To be pardoned, former Confederates had to agree to
10. The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
11. What did the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution do?
12. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in response to
13. The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to
14. As a result of the Missouri Compromise slavery was
15. The best description of the Freedman’s Bureau during reconstruction was that it
16. What was the Freedman’s Bureau contribution to education?
17. What is the name of the notorious Confederate prison in Georgia?
18. Why did the United States rule against Dred Scott?
19. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change the Missouri Compromise?
20. What is the Underground Railroad?
21. As a result of the Missouri Compromise
22. The purpose of the Constitutional Union Party in Georgia was to
23. What did the 15th Amendment to the Constitution do?
24. What did the 13th Amendment to the Constitution do?
25. What amendment to the Constitution did the southern states have to ratify before it could rejoin the Union?
26. Which Confederate official was from Georgia and what was his position?
27. After Lincoln’s election, which man called for Georgia to remain in the Union?
28. What is the Emancipation Proclamation and how was it a concession to the South?
29. Atlanta’s military importance to the confederacy was that it was the
30. What is the Anaconda Plan?
31. How would the fighting in Georgia during the Civil War be described?
32. Who was the Confederate commander during the battle for Atlanta?
33. Who was the commander of the Confederate Army? The Union Army?
34. What contributed to the lack of success of the Union blockade?
35. After what battle was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
36. Where did the bloodiest one day battle of the war take place?
37. Who was William T. Sherman?
38. Why was Chickamauga important to the North and South?
39. What was King Cotton Diplomacy?
40. Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
41. Why did Sherman attack the civilian infrastructure between Atlanta and Savannah?
42. What system was put in place after the war to provide labor for the former plantations?
43. According to Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction, which group of southerners would be pardoned after taking an
oath of allegiance to the United States?
44. Why was President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction NOT enacted?
45. Who was Henry McNeal Turner?
44. What was the Ku Klux Klan?
45. Sharecroppers paid their landowners by
46. What were the provisions of President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
47. Name the first 7 states to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America:
48. Name the next 4 states to join the Confederate States of America: