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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 1 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. 2 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. 3 What did President Lincoln promise in the Gettysburg Address? 7 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. 4 5 cultivation. public universities. reservations. housing for immigrants. 8 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 6 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? 9 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. A B B B C D A D D