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CHAPTER 16
1.
What steps have been taken up to this point to “check” slavery and its growth?
2.
How did cotton’s appeal lead to an economic spiral and demand for labor?
3.
What roles did the North and Britain play in the cotton industry?
4.
How did the power of “King Cotton” extend beyond the South?
5.
Describe the social structure of the Planter Aristocracy.
6.
What were some of the expenses involved in the purchase of slaves?
7.
Why did immigrants choose not to move into the South?
8.
Draw a social pyramid for the south.
9.
Why would non-slaveholders in the south choose to support slavery?
10.
Why were the “mountain whites?”
11.
Describe the life of a free black in the south. The north.
12.
Would it have been better to be a free black in the North or South? Explain.
13.
What accounts for the population increase of blacks from 1800 to 1860?
14.
Why did the Irish immigrants take over a lot of jobs that used to be completed by slaves?
15.
Describe the life and society of the slave population in the South.
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Why would the slaves sabotage the plantations and equipment?
17.
What was Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion?
18.
What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
19.
What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society?
20.
Who were Theodore Weld, Arthur and Lewis Tappan and Lyman Beecher?
21.
Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin so influential?
22.
What were the beliefs of William Lloyd Garrison?
23.
Who were Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass?
24.
How did Southerners react to the radical abolition movements of the North?
25.
Who were the “wage-slaves”?
26.
What was the “Gag Resolution” and who had it repealed?
27.
How did South Carolina violate the first amendment in 1835?
28.
Describe the economic relationship between the North and the South at this time.
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CHAPTER 17
1.
What does the quote of John O’Sullivan mean to the US?
2.
Who are the Whig leaders?
3.
How long was William Henry Harrison in office as president?
4.
Describe the ideas and platform of John Tyler.
5.
Who was John Tyler’s vice president?
6.
What were the Whig financial proposals? Why did Tyler veto them?
7.
How did the Whigs respond to Tyler’s veto?
8.
What was the Whig tariff?
9.
During the “Third War with Britain” why did Americans hate Britain?
10.
What was the financial problems with the British banks?
11.
What was the Caroline? The Creole?
12.
What was the cause of the Aroostook War?
13.
What were the boundary proposals during the war? What was the final outcome under the
Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
14.
What was Mexico’s position regarding the Texas rebellion?
15.
What treaties did Texas sign?
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Why was Britain interested in Texas?
17.
Why were the abolitionists, merchants and manufacturers interested in Texas?
18.
Why did Tyler use a joint resolution to acquire Texas?
19.
Who were the candidates in the 1844 election?
20.
What was Mexico’s response to the joint resolution?
21.
What countries had claims on Oregon?
22.
What was the Oregon Trail?
23.
What areas of Oregon are in dispute?
24.
What are the issues of the 1844 election?
25.
What were the four points to Polk’s four-point program?
26.
In your opinion, was Polk a successful president? Explain.
27.
What was the importance of the port of San Francisco?
28.
Describe the border dispute in Texas.
29.
What led to war with Mexico and what was Lincoln’s “Spot Resolution”?
30.
What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
31.
What were the results of the Mexican War?
32.
How did the Mexican War contribute to the Civil War?
33.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
34.
What area was gained in the Mexican Cession?
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CHAPTER 18
1.
Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1848 presidential election and what were the
positions on slavery?
2.
What is popular sovereignty?
3.
How was popular sovereignty to be used regarding the issue of slavery?
4.
Who was the Whig candidate? Platform?
5.
What was the Free Soil Party? Who was their candidate?
6.
Who supported the Free Soil Party?
7.
What was the outcome of the election and how did the Free Soilers influence the election?
8.
What were the effects of the California Gold Rush in 1848?
9.
Why was the South angered over California entering the union?
10.
What did the South fear about the land gained in the Mexican Cession?
11.
What is the status of slavery in Washington DC at this time?
12.
What is the Underground Railroad?
13.
What was the purpose of the Nashville Convention of 1849?
14.
What were the compromised suggestions of Henry Clay?
15.
What were the ideas of John Calhoun?
16.
Summarize the ideas of Daniel Webster’s “7th of March” speech.
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How did the speech effect the North?
18.
What were the points of the Compromise of 1850?
19.
How did Millard Fillmore become president?
20.
Why is this time period known as the “Second Era of Good Feelings”?
21.
Why did the South look to the Caribbean for new territory?
22.
What were the points of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
23.
What effects did the FSL have in the North?
24.
Who are the candidate for the 1852 election and what are their platforms?
25.
What is the significance of the 1852 election?
26.
Why is President Pierce considered an expansionist?
27.
What is the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty?
28.
What was the Ostend Manifesto?
29.
Both the North and the South wanted the transcontinental RR to go through their regions;
describe the reasoning and plan for each region.
30.
What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?
31.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska plan of Douglas?
32.
How does the Kansas-Nebraska nullify the Missouri Compromise?
33.
What effect does the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Democratic Party?
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CHAPTER 19
1.
How does Lincoln’s quote, to Harriett Beecher Stowe, regarding Uncle Tom’s Cabin reflect the
importance and success of the book?
2.
How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin impact the North?
3.
What was the message of Hinton Helper’s book?
4.
What was the impact of the book in the North and the South?
5.
What was the New England Emigrant Aid Company?
6.
What were the beliefs of John Brown?
7.
How happened at Pottawatomie Creek in 1856?
8.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
9.
What is the Lecompton Constitution and how did it allow for slavery in Kansas regardless of
how the population voted?
10.
How did the Lecompton Constitution affect the Democratic Party?
11.
Describe the events surrounding Brooks’ caning of Sumner in the Senate.
12.
Who were the Democratic and Republican nominees in the 1856 election? What were their
platforms?
13.
What were the beliefs of the American (Know-Nothing) Party? Who was their candidate?
14.
Who won the election of 1856 and why?
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What were the details of the Dred Scott case?
16.
What was the ruling of the Supreme Court?
17.
How did the Dred Scott ruling signal a victory for the South and a loss for the North?
18.
What caused the financial crash of 1857?
19.
Which regions were hurt most by the crash? Why?
20.
What solution did the government propose? Why did Buchanan veto the action?
21.
Who were the candidates in the 1858 Illinois State Senate race?
22.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
23.
What were the effects of Douglas winning the election?
24.
What was John Brown’s goal in the raid at Harper’s Ferry?
25.
In your opinion was John Brown a hero or a murderer?
26.
In the 1860 election why did the Democrats split into three different conventions and
candidates?
27.
Who becomes the Republican nominee in 1860?
28.
What were Lincoln’s views on slavery?
29.
What does it mean when it is stated that Lincoln was a “minority president”?
30.
Why does South Carolina secede from the Union?
31.
What is the CSA and who is Jefferson Davis?
32.
What was the Crittenden Compromise and why did it fail?
33.
What were the reasons for secession?
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CHAPTER 20
1.
What were Lincoln’s view on secession and why?
2.
What were Lincoln’s goals early in the war?
3.
What was the significance of Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s decision to “provision” or “reinforce?”
4.
How did the attack on Fort Sumter affect the Northerners’ views on secession?
5.
Which states were the border states and why were they strategically important?
6.
What happened in Maryland, western VA and Missouri?
7.
What were the war aims for the North?
8.
For which side did the Indians fight and why?
9.
What were the advantages of the South during the Civil War? Disadvantages?
10.
What were the advantages of the North during the Civil War? Disadvantages?
11.
Why did the aristocrats of Britain side with the Confederacy? Why did the commoners side
with the Union?
12.
What caused the failure of “King Cotton?”
13.
What was the “cotton famine?”
14.
What was the Trent Affair? What was Britain’s response?
15.
What was the Alabama?
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What impact did British ships for the Confederacy have on the Union?
17.
What were the Laird Rams?
18.
Who invaded Canada in 1867 and why?
19.
What role did Napoleon III and Mexico play in the Civil War?
20.
What advantages did Lincoln have over Jefferson Davis?
21.
List the 6 military actions taken by Lincoln during the war.
22.
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
23.
Why did the Union institute a draft law in 1863?
24.
Why did the draft law cause riots in NY?
25.
What were the draft laws of the Confederacy?
26.
How did the Union pay for the way?
27.
What was the purpose of the National Banking System instituted in 1863?
28.
What financial problems with the Confederacy face during the war?
29.
Why did the North experience a wartime boom?
30.
How did some dishonest merchants profit from the war?
31.
What new opportunities opened up for women during the war?
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CHAPTER 21
1.
What is the significance of Bull Run?
2.
What is the outcome of Bull Run?
3.
What are the consequences of Bull Run?
4.
Who was General George McClellan? Why did Lincoln have to force him to move his troops?
5.
What is the Peninsula Campaign?
6.
What were the results of the Seven Days’ Battle?
7.
What are the six parts to the new Union strategy?
8.
Why does Britain obey the blockade and the South defy it?
9.
What is the significance of the Merrimack v. Monitor?
10.
Why does Lee invade the North?
11.
What is the significance of the Battle at Antietam Creek? What are the results and
consequences?
12.
How does Antietam change the focus of the war?
13.
Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
14.
What were the impacts of the Emancipation Proclamation?
15.
What were Lincoln’s goals by issuing the EP?
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How did the North respond?
17.
How did the international community react?
18.
Describe the roles Blacks served in the Union military.
19.
How did the South use their slaves during the war?
20.
Describe the Battles at Fredericksburg, VA and Chancellorsville, VA.
21.
What happened to Stonewall Jackson?
22.
What is the significance of the Battle at Gettysburg?
23.
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
24.
What was the significance of Grant’s victories at Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson?
25.
What is General Sherman’s “march to the sea?”
26.
Who were the radical republicans and the Copperheads? What threat did they pose to Lincoln?
27.
Why did Lincoln choose Andrew Johnson as his VP in 1864?
28.
Why did Lincoln gain popularity as the election of 1864 grew near?
29.
Why was U.S. Grant brought to the eastern campaign?
30.
What led to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox?
31.
What is the famous quote of Stanton regarding Lincoln’s assassination?
32.
What was the toll of the Civil War?
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CHAPTER 22
1.
What happened to Jefferson Davis after the Civil War?
2.
Describe the economy, agriculture and attitude of the South after the war.
3.
What were the four questions that had to be answered at the end of the war?
4.
Why weren’t many of the freed slaves of the South actually free?
5.
What effects did emancipation have on African American families and churches?
6.
Who were the Exodusters?
7.
What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
8.
What were the successes and failures of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
9.
What was Lincoln’s 10% plan for Reconstruction?
10.
How did Congress react to Lincoln’s plan?
11.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
12.
What were the opinions of the radical minority in Congress regarding Reconstruction?
13.
What was Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
14.
What was the goal of the Black Codes?
15.
What were the rules of the Black Codes?
16.
What were the consequences of the old Confederate leaders returning to Congress?
17.
What was the Homestead Act of 1861?
18.
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862?
19.
What was the Pacific Railroad Act?
20.
What two bills did Johnson veto and why?
21.
What was the Civil Rights Bill of 1866?
22.
What are the provisions of the 14th amendment?
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What was Johnson’s “swing ‘round the circle”?
24.
What was significant about the 1866 congressional elections? Results?
25.
What were the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
26.
What are the provisions of the 15th amendment?
27.
Who were the “redeemers”?
28.
What criticisms did women have regarding the 14th and 15th amendments?
29.
What was the Union League?
30.
How did Reconstruction create a problem with graft?
31.
What were the goals and tactics of the KKK?
32.
What were the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871?
33.
Why was Johnson impeached?
34.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
35.
What was the verdict of Johnson’s impeachment trial?
36.
Why did Russia agree to sell Alaska to the US? How many did we pay?
37.
Why is the purchase of Alaska known as Seward’s Folly?
38.
What were Republicans’ goals for Reconstruction?
39.
What were the failures of Reconstruction?
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