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USH Ch. 3 Study Guide
Section 1
1. What did the Wilmot Proviso ban? What did this do for politics/help form?
2. What was the Free-Soil Parties political platform?
3. What did the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin do for those who read it?
4. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?
5. This political party was formed in 1854, what type of background did some of the
member belong to?
6. How did northerners and southerners react to the Dred Scott decision? Be specific.
7. How did Lincoln and Douglas differ on the issue of slavery?
8. How did the issue of slavery divide the Union?
Section 2
9. Please name the candidates and their parties’ platform for the 1860 Presidential
election.
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10. How did Lincoln’s election reflect the break between the North and the South?
11. To validate their succession from the Union, what did the Confederate States of
America do as a ‘new’ country?
12. When Lincoln took office and addressed the Union, specifically the South…what did he
say about slavery?
13. What event led to the outbreak of war?
Section 3
14. What were some of the advantages the North had over the South during the Civil War?
15. What strategy did the North develop and use during the war? Explain what it did.
16. What was the Emancipation Proclamation and what did it do?
17. How did the Civil War affect the economies of the North and South? Please be
specific.
18. What did the ‘total war’ method actually do?
Section 4
19. What did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide?
20. What were some of the potential solutions/punishments that were proposed for
Reconstruction in the south?
21. What did the 15th amendment state?
22. What political gains did African Americans make in the early phases of
Reconstruction?
23. What was the primary reason many African Americans lost political power in the
south?
24. How did the influence of Radical Reconstruction in the South erode?