Download Study Guide- The Civil War/The New West

Study Guide- The Civil War/The New West
Vocabulary (Matching)
1. Emancipation Proclamation- This freed all _________________________ in the
___________________________________ on January 1, 1863. (Slide 4 of PowerPoint 62: Civil War II)
2. Robert E. Lee- This man was asked by Abraham Lincoln to command the
_________________________________Army, but remained loyal to his home state of
_______________________________ and commanded the
_________________________________________ Army instead. (Slide 12 of PowerPoint 61: Civil War I)
3. 13th Amendment- This banned _______________________________________________ throughout
the United States. (Slide 28 of PowerPoint 65: Reconstruction I)
4. Free-Soil Party- This was founded in 1848. Its main goal was to keep
__________________________________out of the __________________________________________
territories. (Slide 11 of PowerPoint 56: Slavery Divides America I)
5. 14th Amendment- This grants _______________________________________________ to all persons
______________________________ in the United States. (Slide 28 of PowerPoint 65: Reconstruction I)
6. Freedmen- (Slide 11 of PowerPoint 64: Civil War IV)
7. Carpetbaggers- Nickname given to ___________________________________________ who came to
the South hoping to get _____________________________ from the South’s
_____________________________________. (Slide 3 of PowerPoint 66: Reconstruction II)
8. 15th Amendment- (Slide 28 of PowerPoint 65: Reconstruction I)
9. Black Codes- (Slide 16 of PowerPoint 65: Reconstruction I)
10. Jim Crow Laws- (Slide 21 of PowerPoint 66: Reconstruction II)
11. Gettysburg- This battle was considered the _________________________________________ point
of the Civil War. Over ____________________________________________ soldiers were killed or
wounded there. (Slide 10 of PowerPoint 63: Civil War III)
12. Reconstruction- The ___________________________________________________ of the South
after the Civil War (Slide 4 of PowerPoint 65: Reconstruction I)
13. Ku Klux Klan- White Southern secret society who conducted a campaign of
_____________________________ and _______________________________________ to keep
African-Americans and White Republicans out of office (Slide 5 of PowerPoint 66: Reconstruction II)
14. Jefferson Davis- This man was the ____________________________________________ of the
__________________________________ States of America. (Slide 5 of PowerPoint 60: Secession)
15. Scalawags- Nickname given to white Southern
_____________________________________________, who were considered to be
_________________________________________ (Slide 3 of PowerPoint 66: Reconstruction II)
16. Total War- (Slide 4 of PowerPoint 64: Civil War IV)
17. Uncle Tom’s Cabin- ____________________________written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the
evils of _________________________________ and the _______________________________________
of the Fugitive Slave Act. (Slide 14 of PowerPoint 57: Slavery Divides America I)
18. John Brown- This man tried to start a ______________________ uprising in Virginia, but was hanged
for _________________________ and ___________________________ when the plot failed. (Slide 10
of PowerPoint 59: Slavery Divides America IV)
Multiple Choice
1. Know what led to violence in Kansas in 1855. (Slide 5 of PowerPoint 58: Slavery Divides America III)
2. Know how the Civil War began. (Slide 10 of PowerPoint 60: Secession)
__________________________________________troops attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
3. Know why the Civil War was a turning point in American history. (Slide 9 of PowerPoint 64: Civil War
IV)
People began to think of the United States as one ___________________________________,
rather than as a ___________________________________________________ of states.
4. Know what the North’s one official goal was at the start of the Civil War. (Slide 3 of PowerPoint 62:
Civil War II)
5. Know the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty. (Slide 15 of PowerPoint 67: The New West)
__________________ would be reserved for the Indians there ___________________________,
and they would be given money, animals, tools and other goods.
6. Know why sharecroppers became trapped in a cycle of poverty. (Slide 16 of PowerPoint 66:
Reconstruction II)
Because they were in constant _________________________________ to the landowners and
were never able to earn a ______________________________________.
7. Know what killed more men than anything else in the Civil War. (Slide 4 of PowerPoint 63: Civil War
III)
8. Know how the South reacted to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860. (Slide 5 of
PowerPoint 60: Secession)
Several ___________________________________________ states
_________________________________ from the Union and formed the
_____________________________________________ States of America.
9. Know what the issue was that led to the Compromise of 1850. (Slide 4 of PowerPoint 57: Slavery
Divides America I)
Admitting ____________________________________________________ to the Union in 1850
gave ____________________ states an advantage over ________________________ states.
10. Know what Rutherford B. Hayes promised to do when he became the President in 1876. (Slides 1819 of PowerPoint 66: Reconstruction II)
End ____________________________________________________ and remove all federal
__________________________________ from the South
11. Know what Henry Clay proposed when Missouri asked to be admitted to the Union. (Slide 3 of
PowerPoint 56: Slavery Divides America I)
Admit __________________________________________________ as a slave state and
______________________________________ as a free state
12. Know why Congress tried to remove President Andrew Johnson from office. (Slide 20 of PowerPoint
65: Reconstruction I)
13. Know why the Republican Party was formed in the 1850s. (Slide 3 of PowerPoint 59: Slavery Divides
America IV)
The founders of the party believed that neither the ______________________ nor the
_________________________ would take a strong enough stand on ______________________.
14. Know the results of Abraham Lincolns’ debates with Stephen Douglas while running for the U.S.
Senate in Illinois in 1858. (Slide 5 of PowerPoint 59: Slavery Divides America IV)
15. Know who built the Transcontinental Railroad. (Slide 10 of PowerPoint 67: The New West)
16. Know how the Homestead Act encouraged people to move west. (Slide 26 of PowerPoint 67: The
New West)
It offered free land to American citizens who were willing to _____________________ on the
land and _________________ it for 5 years.
17. Know what the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford. (Slide 19 of PowerPoint
58: Slavery Divides America III)
Dred Scott could not file a ____________________________ because he was a
__________________, and Congress had no power to outlaw __________________________.
18. Know the gold mining cycle in the West. (Slide 3 of PowerPoint 67: The New West)
When gold was discovered, ____________________________________________ appeared,
which later became ______________________________ towns.
Short Answer
1. Be able to list the 3 part strategy of the Union to win the Civil War: (Slide 13 of PowerPoint 61: Civil
War I)
(1)
(2)
(3)
2. Be able to list 3 strengths that the North had at the beginning of the Civil War: (Slide 5 of PowerPoint
61: Civil War I)
(1)
(2)
(3)
3. Be able to list 2 weaknesses of the North at the beginning of the Civil War: (Slide 6 of PowerPoint 61:
Civil War I)
(1)
(2)
4. Be able to list 3 strengths that the South had at the beginning of the Civil War: (Slide 5 of PowerPoint
61: Civil War I)
(1)
(2)
(3)
5. Be able to list 2 weaknesses of the South at the beginning of the Civil War: (Slide 6 of PowerPoint 61:
Civil War I)
(1)
(2)
6. Be able to list the 3 part strategy of the Confederacy to win the Civil War: (Slide 13 of PowerPoint 61:
Civil War I)
(1)
(2)
(3)
7. Be able to list the 4 slave states that stayed in the Union during the Civil War: (Slide 9 of PowerPoint
60: Secession)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
8. Be able to list 3 ways in which Southern states prevented African-Americans from voting after the Civil
War: (Slide 20 of PowerPoint 66: Reconstruction II)
(1)
(2)
(3)