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Unit 3 – Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction
A. Causes of the Civil War (Chapter 10)
Complete the following chart
Event
Result
Dred Scott Decision
John Brown’s Raid
Publishing of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Election of 1860
Define the following terms
Secession:
Popular Sovereignty:
Fugitive Slave Act:
Underground Railroad:
Wilmot Proviso:
Nativism:
Answer the following questions
How did the Compromise of 1850 satisfy both the North and South?
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
Why did popular sovereignty lead to bleeding Kansas?
What were the goals of the Free Soil Party?
In effect, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed an earlier important decision. Explain.
Who is considered the founder of the Republican Party?
What was the Confederacy?
Write the letter of the name or term next to the statement that describes it best
a. Abraham Lincoln
_____ 1. I am the senator who succeeded in passing the Compromise of 1850.
b. Harriet Tubman
_____ 2. I am an escaped slave and a leader of the Underground Railroad.
c. Dred Scott
_____ 3. I am the Democratic candidate and the winner of the election of 1856.
d. James Buchanan
_____ 4. I am the Northern abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion by leading a
raid on Harper’s Ferry
_____ 5. I am the Republican candidate and the winner of the election of 1860.
e. John Brown
f. Stephen A. Douglas
_____ 6. I am the person whose case brought a Supreme Court decision that said
slaves were property protected by the Constitution
If the statement is true, write “true” on the line. If it is false, change the underlined word or words to make it true
_____________ The Compromise of 1850 contained a law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves.
_____________ Harriet Tubman wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which told about the horrors of slavery.
_____________ The Underground Railroad was a secret network of volunteers who hid escaped slaves.
_____________ The Southern states that seceded from the Union formed the Confederacy.
_____________ The Republican Party supported slavery.
B. The Civil War (Chapter 11)
Define the following terms
Anaconda Plan:
Copperheads:
Appomattox Court House:
Jefferson Davis:
Ulysses S. Grant:
George McClellan:
Robert E. Lee:
Writ of Habeas Corpus:
Conscription:
Clara Barton:
Answer the following questions
What was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal when the Civil War began?
What advantages did the North have over the South?
What advantages did the South have over the North?
What was goal of Sherman’s March to the Sea?
What was the response of the border states at the outbreak of Civil War?
What new weapons made war on the battlefield more deadly?
Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? (It wasn’t just to free slaves in the South)
Why did so many prisoners die during the Civil War?
Which Civil War battle is considered the turning point of the war?
Why was Vicksburg such an important victory for the Union?
What was General Grant’s nickname?
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln and why?
Fill in each blank with the name or term that best completes the paragraph
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Fort Sumter
Appomattox Court House
Gettysburg
Bull Run
The Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate forces fired on ______________________ in Charleston, SC. Then
in the Battle of _______________________, the South won an early victory only 25 miles from Washington, D.C.
However, the tide turned at ________________________, Pennsylvania. There, Confederate General
______________________ was turned back from his attempt to invade the North. He finally surrendered to the Union
commander _____________________ at ________________________________, VA.
C. Reconstruction (Chapter 12)
Complete the following chart
Reconstruction Plans
Lincoln’s Plan
Republican Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Johnson’s Plan
Military Reconstruction
Define the following terms
Total War:
Freedmen’s Bureau:
Radical Republicans:
Impeach:
Scalawag:
Sharecropping:
Tenant Farming:
Answer the following questions
What did the Civil Rights Amendments do for African Americans in the U.S.?
13th:
14th:
15th:
What were the main goals of the KKK?
What brought an end to Reconstruction?
What is a carpetbagger?
What did Union General William T. Sherman promise freed slaves?
How many military districts was the South placed under? Which southern state was not?
What was no longer “king” in the South?
Who is Hiram Revels?
Which two southern states were the first to pass black codes?
What did the House of Representatives charge President Andrew Johnson of violating?
How many African-Americans were enrolled in elementary schools by 1877?
Fill in the blanks with the letter of the term that best completes the sentence
a. Reconstruction
b. Black Codes
c. Scalawags
d. Carpetbaggers
e. Ku Klux Klan
f. Rutherford B. Hayes
_____1. Congress outlawed _______, which were laws that discriminated against
African Americans.
_____ 2. The _______ was a terrorist organization that used violence to prevent
African Americans from voting.
_____ 3. The election of ________ as president in 1876, helped to bring
Reconstruction to an end.
_____ 4. _______ was the period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War, which
lasted from 1865 to 1877.
_____ 5. The _______ were white Southern Republicans who did not want wealthy
planters to regain power.
_____ 6. _______ were Northerners who moved to the South after the war for
for economic gain.