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Study Guide Unit 8; Civil War & Reconstruction
1. Why did Lincoln originally fight the Civil War?
2. Describe the Border States and name them.
3. How did Lincoln keep the Border States under control? Explain.
4. ID Copperheads
5. List the southern advantages.
6. Who did the south rely on for trade?
7. Why could the north’s victory be called a war of attrition?
8. Capital of Union and the Confederacy
9-11. ID the three parts of the Anaconda Plan
12. Significance of Bull Run
13. Significance of Vicksburg
14. What Union fort was taken by the south after the secession of South Carolina?
15. What Union leader took control of the lower Mississippi and New Orleans?
16-18. ID ironclads and name the two we discussed.
19. Significance of Antietam.
20. Id Emancipation Proclamation.
21. How many slaves did it free?
22. After what battle was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
23. Who pledged support for the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation?
24. ID Radical Republicans, who led them?
25. ID conscription and problems associated with them.
26. ID Clara Barton
27. What was the Union Party?
28. What is “Total War”?
29. Turning point of the war
30. Who was the main general of the south?
31. How did Grant plan to win the war?
32. ID tactics used by Sherman
33. Who became president after Lincoln?
34. Where did the south surrender and end the war?
35. Who killed Lincoln and where?
36. Why did Lincoln have to replace so many generals?
37. ID 10% Plan
38. What did Congress and the President agree on over Reconstruction?
39. Who wanted a harsh Reconstruction?
40-42. ID 13,14,15 Amendments
43. ID Freedman’s Bureau
44. ID Black Codes
45. Why is it significant that Republicans gained a majority in the 1866 elections in
Congress?
46. ID Reconstruction Act, 1867...explain.
47. Was Johnson impeached? Convicted?
48. What president ended Reconstruction?
49. How did the election of 1876 end Reconstruction? (what was the compromise?)
50. What was created to stop the illiterate vote and to keep blacks from voting?
51. How did poor whites get around this?
Study Guide Unit 8; Civil War & Reconstruction
52. ID Jim Crow Laws
53. ID Plessy v. Ferguson, 1898
54. What can be called the immediate cause of the Civil War?
55. Who controlled the Reconstruction Act: President or Congress?
56. After which battle did the British fail to support the South?
57. What battle led to the division of the Confederacy?
58. Who were the three Presidents during Reconstruction?
59. Was the Gettysburg Address a cause of the Civil War?
60. ID Hiram Revels
61. Id Civil Right Act, 1866
62. ID sharecropping and tenant farming
63. ID scalawags and carpetbaggers
64. What was the purpose Tenure of Office Act.
65. ID Amnesty Act
66. Were Republicans concerned with black equality or political power? Explain.
67. What did Republicans promise the freedmen?
68. ID Greenbacks
69. Id the Solid South
70. Id Redemption
71. The secession of seven slave states was the immediate result of what event?
72. What contributed most to the Northern victory?