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Chapter 4 The Civil War and its Aftermath
4-1 The Nation Splits Apart
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I can statement:
What was the Marais des Gygnes Massacre?
Why did Kansas become known as “Bleeding Kansas”?
Why was California’s application for statehood controversial?
Who introduced the Compromise of 1850?
What was one major cause of passage of the Compromise of 1850?
What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
What legislation made it a federal crime to aid runaway slaves?
What famous novel is about slavery’s cruelty?
What proposal did Stephen A. Douglas present to secure a northern route for the first
transcontinental railroad?
How did he gain support for his proposal?
What is popular sovereignty?
What effect did popular sovereignty have on the Kansas and Nebraska?
What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Democratic and Whig parties?
What was a key effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
How was the Republican Party formed?
What was the “Sack of Lawrence”?
What action did John Brown take in response to the “Sack of Kansas”?
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
Who was nominated by the Democratic Party in the 1856 Presidential election?
What did he pledge regarding slavery?
How did the Democratic candidate win?
How did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?
Who led the plot to start a slave rebellion in Virginia?
Who was sentenced to death for capturing the U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?
Who was born in a one-room cabin near Louisville, Kentucky in 1809?
What radical idea did Lincoln propose in 1846?
Why did Lincoln resign from Congress in 1849?
Why did he re-enter politics?
What debate brought national attention to senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln?
The Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during which political event?
When Lincoln talks about a “house divided”, whose house is he speaking of?
Who were Lincoln’s opponents for president in 1860 and what parties did the represent?
Why was Abraham Lincoln nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in the 1860
election?
What was a major effect of the election of Abraham Lincoln (an anti-slavery candidate), lead to?
36. What did South Carolina’s legislature do one week after Abraham Lincoln won the election of
1860?
37. Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
4-2 The Civil War
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I can statement:
What orders did President Lincoln give regarding Fort Sumter?
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
What did Lincoln call for as a result of the attack?
Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were examples of what?
At the outbreak of the Civil War, which state was President Lincoln most concerned about
preventing from seceding, because of its location near Washington, D.C.?
At the outbreak of the Civil War, why was the North better equipped for war than the South?
What was the major advantage for the South?
What was one of the most important goals in the Confederate war strategy?
What new military tactics were employed in the Civil War?
How were railroads used in the Civil War?
What battle ended the hopes of a short war for both North and South?
What battle forced the North to acknowledge that the rebellion would not collapse on its own?
What actions did Admiral Farragut take?
Why did Lee want to invade Maryland?
In which battle did the bloodiest day of the Civil War occur?
Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free enslaved people?
What ended slavery in the United States?
How many African Americans served in segregated units of the Union Army?
What was the cause of death for most soldiers who died during the Civil War?
Who were “copperheads”?
Why is Clara Barton remembered in history?
What were some international repercussions of the U.S. Civil War?
What did the Confederacy do to try to break the Union blockade?
What role did Native Americans play in the Civil War?
In what three major battles did General Joseph Hooker lead the Union?
Where was General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory?
How did Lee trick General Hooker?
Where was the scene of Pickett’s charge in which thousands of Confederate soldiers died?
How did General Grant defeat Vicksburg?
What action did Grant take once he was given complete control of Union forces?
Why did Abraham Lincoln win the presidential election of 1864?
What name was given to General Sherman’s destructive march across Georgia?
Why did General Robert E. Lee surrender to General Ulysses Grant?
What were the terms of surrender?
4-3 Reconstruction
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2. How was Congress able to abolish slavery in the United States?
3. Which Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States (except Native
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4. What legislation gave African American men suffrage?
5. According to the provisions of the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, how could
states be readmitted to the union?
6. What was Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
7. What was the Wade-Davis Act?
8. What were the provisions of the Wade Davis Act?
9. What action did Lincoln take regarding the Wade-Davis Act?
10. Who assassinated President Lincoln?
11. Who became president as a result of the Lincoln assassination?
12. What was the new president’s background and political party?
13. What changes did Johnson make to Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan?
14. Why?
15. Which southern laws were designed to keep freedmen in a slave-like condition?
16. What methods did the Ku Klux Klan use?
17. What was the original function of the Ku Klux Klan?
18. What state laws led Congress to take a more active role in Reconstruction?
19. Which group advocated for tougher standards for re-establishing southern state governments?
20. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
21. What were the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
22. What led Radical Republicans to take over Reconstruction?
23. What does the 14th Amendment provide for?
24. What were the provisions of the four Reconstruction Acts?
25. What are the provisions of the Tenure of Office Act?
26. How did President Johnson challenge the Tenure of Office Act?
27. What was the result?
28. Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1868?
29. What was the deciding factor in his election?
30. What were white southern who supported the political changes of Reconstruction called by exConfederates?
31. What groups were included in this label?
32. What term is used to describe Northerners who went south to participate in Reconstruction?
33. What functions did they provide?
34. What changes did freedom bring for Southern African Americans?
35. What was sharecropping?
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What was tenant farming?
What groups were targeted by the KKK and other terrorist organizations in the South?
The Enforcement Acts empowered the army and federal courts to punish which group?
Who were the Liberal Republicans?
How did they impact the Congressional election of 1872?
What were the Slaughterhouse cases?
What term is given to the post-Reconstruction South?
How did Rutherford B. Hayes win the presidency?