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Unit 6 Master Objective List and Glossary
Define the major pieces of vocabulary and answer the basic questions before class each day. Use
http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp​
to help you before any other internet resource. If you have trouble
completing this before class, please see your teacher before school. Failure to complete before school will result in
requirement to come in before school the following day. This assignment will be turned in at the end of the unit.
6.01 Identify Lincoln’s stance on slavery before the war and the events leading to secession. (32E)
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What did the ​
Charleston Mercury ​
say about South Carolina being the first state to secede from the Union?
What states made up the Confederate States of America?
Who was elected President of the Confederacy?
What did James Henry Crittenden offer as an attempt to stop the Civil War and appease Southern states?
How did James Buchanan feel about secession and what did he do to stop it? Why?
6.02 Identify the strategies, advantages, and disadvantages for the North and South in the Civil War.
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What happened at Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861?
Name two strengths and two weaknesses of the North (33b):
Name two strengths and two weaknesses of the South (33b):
What were the 5 major goals of the Union Army to try and win the war? (33E)
6.03 Describe the technological changes and the daily lives of soldiers in the Civil War
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When the war began, what did most Americans expect from the fighting? (33c)
What was the impact of the First Battle of Bull Run, which took place at Manassas Junction? (33c)
Google: What were the Monitor and Merrimack?
What was the H.L. Hunley?
What impact do you think these three would have on warfare?
6.04 Describe the significance the Battle of Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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How many Americans died in the one day of the Battle of Antietam? (33e)
Why did Robert E. Lee and the South need a victory so badly? (33e)
What was the main idea of the Emancipation Proclamation? (34a)
Which slaves were actually freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? (34a)
6.05 Identify and describe the major turning points of the Civil War.
1. What was the result of the Battle of Gettysburg and in what ways was it the beginning of the end for the
South? (33g)
2. What was the significance of the Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg? (33h)
3. Describe William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea: (33h)
4. Why did Ulysses Grant have the nickname the Butcher? (33h)
6.06 Describe the impact of the Civil War on the “home front”
1. Who were the Copperheads? (34)
2. What was the policy of conscription that was adopted by the Union? What was the reaction to this policy?
(34c)
3. What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus? (google) Who was Lincoln denying this right to? (34E)
4. What was Clara Barton’s contribution to the war effort? What long term effect did it have? (34c)
5. Describe why the Civil War was often referred to as “A Rich Man’s War and a Poor Man’s Fight!” (34d)
6.07 Describe the events surrounding the end of the Civil War.
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What happened at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865? (33i)
What does John Wilkes Booth say after shooting Lincoln? What does it mean? (34f)
What did the 13th amendment do? (35)
What did the 14th amendment do? (35)
What did the 15th amendment do? (35)
6.08 Analyze the various plans for Reconstructing the United States
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Define Reconstruction: (35)
Describe Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction, which Andrew Johnson would have to try to enact. (35a)
What were the two beliefs of the Radical Republicans? (35b)
What was Andrew Johnson’s reaction to the Civil Rights Bill of 1866? (35b)
Define the Military Reconstruction Act of 1868: (35)
What happened to Andrew Johnson in 1868, for the first time in American history. (35c)
6.09 Identify the causes for the end of Reconstruction.
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Who were the Carpetbaggers? (35d)
Who were the Scalawags? (35d)
Google ​
3 scandals of the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant:
Google​
: What the result of the election of 1876?
6.10 Identify the impact of Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans.
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Describe sharecropping: (google)
Describe tenant farming: (google)
What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan? (35d)
Describe 3 black codes or Jim Crow Laws impacting African Americans after the Civil War:
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