Download Chapter 4 Homework Assignment

Chapter 4: The Civil War
Part I/Map Section
Directions: On the map titled The Civil War, complete the following:
1. Label each of the Union states and color them BLUE.
2. Label each of the Confederate states and color them RED.
3. Label each of the border states and color them YELLOW.
4. Label the Western Territories area and color it ORANGE.
5. Make sure to include a key in the bottom, left-hand corner of the map indicating what each of the colors represent.
Part II/Identifications
Directions: Provide the definition (D:) and significance (S:) for each of the following terms. In writing out your
answers, make sure to follow the model that was demonstrated in class.
1. secession
15. Ulysses S. Grant
26. Thirteenth Amendment
2. popular sovereignty
16. Robert E. Lee
27. Fourteenth Amendment
3. Underground Railroad
17. Antietam
28. Fifteenth Amendment
4. Harriet Tubman
18. Emancipation
29. John Wilkes Booth
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Proclamation
30. Freedmen’s Bureau
6. Dred Scott
19. conscription
31. Reconstruction
7. Stephen Douglas
20. income tax
32. Radical Republicans
8. Abraham Lincoln
21. Gettysburg
33. scalawag
9. Confederacy
22. Gettysburg Address
34. carpetbagger
10. Jefferson Davis
23. Vicksburg
35. Andrew Johnson
11. Harpers Ferry
24. William Tecumseh
36. Hiram Revels
12. election of 1860
Sherman
37. sharecropping
13. Fort Sumter
25. Appomattox Court
38. Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
14. Stonewall Jackson
House
Part III/Short Answer
Directions: Answer each of the following as thoroughly as possible and IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1. How did the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act invalidate the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
(122, 157-158, 160)
2. How did the Dred Scott decision invalidate the boundaries and precedent set by Kansas Nebraska Act? (162163, 166)
3. How did President Lincoln get the Confederacy to attack the Union so that the South looked like the
aggressor? (168)
4. What were the Union’s strengths and weaknesses at the outset of the war? What were the Confederacy’s
strengths and weaknesses? (169)
5. How did President Lincoln use the Emancipation Proclamation to legally (according to the Constitution, as the
“commander in chief”) free the slaves? (172)
6. When were slaves permanently emancipated, as not as “enemy resources?” (172, 183)
7. What were President Lincoln’s and President Johnson’s Reconstruction plans (to readmit the southern states to
the Union?) (184-185)
8. Why did the Republicans in Congress take control of the Reconstruction process in 1866? How was
Congressional Reconstruction different than Presidential Reconstruction under Johnson? (185-186)
9. In what ways did the Republican promote and protect the rights of freedmen in the South? (186-189)
10. Why does Reconstruction end in 1876? Make sure to describe the controversial election and its outcome.
(189)
Part IV/Projects
Directions: Type a five-paragraph essay about one of the following topics. Make sure to follow the essay writing
guidelines as were demonstrated in class. Topics are limited and are assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis.
1. photography during the
5. Frederick Douglass
12. Sherman’s March to the
Civil War
6. John Brown
Sea
2. medicine/medical
7. free soil party
13. the assassination plot
practices during the Civil
8. Battle of Bull Run
against Abraham Lincoln
War
9. Battle of Antietam
14. sharecropping and the
3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
10. Anaconda Plan
lien system
4. The Liberator
11. Clara Barton
15. Ku Klux Klan