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U.S. History: Civil War Activity
Use your notes and (or) your textbook, pages 454-549, to answer all the questions and complete the activities.
1. In the early 1800s, the Northern economy began to develop more
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2. In the early 1800s, the Southern economy relied on ______________________________________________.
3. The Compromise of 1850, another in a series of compromises between free and slave states. It had two parts:
To please the North: ______________________________________________________________________
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To please the South: ______________________________________________________________________
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4. List the three parts of the fugitive slave act.
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5. How was the federal commissioner paid for each case he ruled on? (What were the two different ways?)
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6. What was the name of the novel that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anger about slavery motivated her to write?
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7. Define popular sovereignty. _________________________________________________________________
8. What did the Kansas-Nebraska act do to the territory of Nebraska? __________________________________
9. The Kansas-Nebraska act turned Kansas into ___________________________________________________.
10. Name the extreme abolitionist who avenged the Sack of Lawrence by murdering five proslavery neighbors?
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Free and Slave State and Territories, 1820-1854
You must only use colored pencils.
Complete the Key below. Color all three maps with the same color scheme.
Free States
Slave states
Territory closed to slavery
Territory open to slavery
Missouri Compromise (1820-1821)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
11. Who was Dred Scott? _____________________________________________________________________
What did his owner do? ___________________________________________________________________
After his owner’s death, what did Dred Scott do? _______________________________________________
What court heard Dred Scott’s case? _________________________________________________________
12. The Dred Scott decision said:
about Scott and citizenship: ________________________________________________________________
about Congress and slavery: _______________________________________________________________
13. What did John Brown plan to capture as part of his plan to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom?
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14. After Lincoln’s election in 1860, what was the first state to secede? ________________________________
15. In February 1861, the seven states that seceded formed their own country called the:
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16. Who did the “Southern” states name as their first president? ______________________________________
17. What was the first battle of the Civil War? ____________________________________________________
18. What was the population of the North when the war started? ______________________________________
19. What was the population of the South when the war started? ______________________________________
What was the population of slaves in the South when the war started? ______________________________
20. List the percentages for the following:
Manufacturing Plants: North _______________________________ South _____________________________
Railroad Mileage:
North _______________________________ South ____________________________
21. Define Border States. _____________________________________________________________________
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22. List the original four Border States.
1) _______________________________________
2) _______________________________________
3) _______________________________________
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23. Federal troops helped a group of counties break away and form the state of? _________________________
24. How many states made up: The Union?___________________ The Confederacy?_____________________
25. What crop was the most important to the Southern economy? _____________________________________
26. What was the name of General Winfield Scott’s strategy to smother the South’s economy?
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27. Define blockade._________________________________________________________________________
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28. What was the significance of the First Battle of Bull Run?
South thought: __________________________________________________________________________
North realized: __________________________________________________________________________
29. Define Ironclads. ________________________________________________________________________
30. Name the two ships that fought in the first ironclad battle. __________________ and __________________
31. What was the name of the structure from where the captain steered the ironclad? ______________________
32. Which side won the Battle of Shiloh? ________________________________________________________
33. What was the first battle in the North during the war? ___________________________________________
34. What was the executive order, which promised to free all slaves in the Confederate territory, issued by
President Lincoln on January 1, 1863?
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35. By the end of the war, about how many black soldiers fought for the Union? _________________________
36. What was one of the first African-American regiments organized in the North that insisted on fighting
without pay rather than accepting lower pay than white soldiers?
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37. Define Copperheads. _____________________________________________________________________
38. Define Conscription. _____________________________________________________________________
39. Name the women called “the angel of the battlefield.” who would later found the American Red Cross
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40. How long did the Battle of Gettysburg last? ___________________________________________________
41. What was the famous southern attack at the middle of the Union line? ______________________________
42. Which side won the Battle of Gettysburg? ____________________________________________________
43. Why was President Lincoln furious after the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg?
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44. What was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River? ________________________________
45. Which Union general won the battle that gave the North complete control over the Mississippi River?
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46. Which Union general led a march to the sea through Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah, that cut a path of
destruction up to 60 miles wide and 300 miles long?
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47. Where did General Lee and General Grant meet to arrange the surrender that basically ended the Civil War?
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48. The Civil war was fought from the year (started)________________ to the year (ended)________________.
49. What did the thirteenth Amendment do? ______________________________________________________
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50. Who assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater? __________________________________________
51. Define Reconstruction. ___________________________________________________________________
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52. Define black codes. ______________________________________________________________________
53. What did the fourteenth Amendment state? ____________________________________________________
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54. Under the Reconstruction act of 1867, what two things did the Southern states have to do before they could
reenter the Union?
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2) _____________________________________________________________________________________
55. Define carpetbaggers. ____________________________________________________________________
56. Describe the sharecropping system.__________________________________________________________
What did the landowner provide? ___________________________________________________________
When harvest time came, what did the sharecropper do? _________________________________________
How did sharecropping benefit families without land? ___________________________________________
How did sharecropping benefit landowners? ___________________________________________________
57. What did the fifteenth Amendment state? _____________________________________________________
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The States Choose Sides, 1861
1. Label each state with its name. Do not use abbreviations.
2. Complete the key below with your color choices and color the map (each area a different color). *You must only use colored pencils.*
Union state
Confederate state
Border state not seceding
Territories
Critical Thinking and Inference Questions: Use your knowledge, your understanding of cause and effect and
your ability to make inferences to answer the following questions.
Answer with complete sentences! Write complete, full sentences to answer each of the following questions.
Make sure that each sentence is a whole, complete thought that can stand alone.
Make sure that your sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with the proper punctuation.
*Use all the lines provided to answer the following questions. You must use every line for each question.*
58. Where did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas each stand on slavery? ________________________
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59. How did Southerners justify secession? ______________________________________________________
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60. What advantages did the North have at the beginning of the war? __________________________________
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61. Why did so many people volunteer to fight in the Civil War? _____________________________________
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62. How did black soldiers aid the war effort? ____________________________________________________
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*Use all the lines provided to answer the following questions. You must use every line for each question.*
63. How did Sherman’s march help the Union? ___________________________________________________
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64. How was the Thirteenth Amendment different from the Emancipation Proclamation? __________________
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65. Who were scalawags and carpetbaggers? _____________________________________________________
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66. How did sharecropping create a cycle of poverty? ______________________________________________
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67. Why did the Fifteenth Amendment arouse anger in many women? _________________________________
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