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AHSGE Social Studies Items – Standard IV
STANDARD IV: The student will understand concepts related to the United States
Civil War Era.
OBJECTIVE
1. Identify and evaluate events, causes, and effects of the Civil War Era. (8 items)
ELIGIBLE CONTENT
• Recognize and analyze the factors leading to sectional division.
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Formation of Republican Party
- Dred Scott Decision
- John Brown Raid
• Identify and relate the election of Lincoln to the division of the nation.
- Background
Issues debated
Democratic Party split
- Secession and the federal response
Examples: formation of Confederacy (Note: include Montgomery, Alabama),
Ft. Sumter, Northern goals, Southern goals
- Northern Alabama’s perspective on secession (Note: include Winston County,
Alabama, and western counties of Virginia)
Pockets of resistance to secession
• Identify and analyze the non-military events of the Civil War.
- Political
Example: creation of black military units
- Economic
Examples: Homestead Act, Morrill-Land Grant Act
- Cultural
Examples: draft opposition, Emancipation Proclamation
- Legal
Example: suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
 Examine the military defeat of the Confederacy.
- Geographic
Examples: Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Sherman’s March
- Political
Gettysburg Address
- Economic
Lee’s surrender
Cost of war
• Identify and compare the successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era and the
emergence of the New South.
- Plans for Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan
Congressional Plan
- Radical Reconstruction
Examples: Southern Military Districts, Black Codes, carpetbaggers, scalawags,
organized resistance groups
- Presidency of U.S. Grant
- End of Reconstruction
Examples: election of 1876, Compromise of 1877
- The New South
Politics
Industrialization
Race relations
Example: Jim Crow Laws
Black cultural structures
Examples: schools, churches, and family
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The Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg were:
A Northern victories which marked the
turning point of the Civil War.
B Southern victories that convinced other
countries to support them.
C Southern victories that secured control
of the Mississippi River.
D not important to the outcome of the
Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was
an order that
A demanded immediate freedom for
all enslaved African Americans
in the North.
B freed all enslaved African
Americans in the United States.
C freed all the slaves in states
loyal to the Union.
D called for all slaves in the areas
rebelling against the Union to be
freed.
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What did President Lincoln promise in the
Gettysburg Address?
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A We would never have another war between
the states.
B A cemetery would be provided for all who
died in the Civil War.
C Every soldier would receive money for
any lost property.
D The South would recover all of its previous
wealth.
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cultivation.
public universities.
reservations.
housing for immigrants.
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citizens of the United States.
free if they moved to a free area.
the property of their masters.
to receive 160 acres of land.
One area of the South that did not secede prior
to the Civil War was:
A
B
C
D
Richmond, Virginia.
Montgomery, Alabama.
Atlanta, Georgia.
Winston County, Alabama.
A law that was attached to the
Compromise of 1850 that mandated
that northern states forcibly return
escaped slaves to their owners in the
South was the
A
B
C
D
In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme
Court declared that slaves were
A
B
C
D
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A passage of Jim Crow laws in the
latter part of the 19th century
B ratification of the 13th, 14th, and
15th amendments
C refusal of Southern states to allow
sharecropping
D passage of the Civil Rights Act of
1866
The Morrill Land Grant Act allotted each state
thousands of acres of land to be used for
A
B
C
D
“Although important strides were made,
Reconstruction failed to provide lasting
guarantees of the civil rights of the
freedmen.” Which evidence best
supports this statement?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Missouri Compromise.
New Jersey Plan.
Fugitive Slave Law.
Andrew Johnson assumed responsibility
for Reconstruction after
A Congress passed the 15th amendment.
B carpetbaggers and scalawags undermined the efforts of the Freedmen’s
Bureau.
C southern Democrats agreed to the
Compromise of 1877.
D John Wilkes Booth assassinated
President Lincoln.
AHSGE Social Studies
Answer Key
Standard IV: The student will understand concepts related to the United States
Civil War Era.
IV-1 Identify and evaluate events, causes, and effects of the Civil
War Era.
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