Download Period 5: 1844-1877 Chapters 18-23 CHAPTER 18 Renewing the

Period 5: 1844-1877
Chapters 18-23
Directions: Read and take C-Notes over the chapter assigned. While you are taking notes focus
on defining the bolded terms and people. Also highlight key turning points you find throughout
the chapter. When you finish reading you should be able to answer the following questions in
written form. Notes need to be done by the beginning of class the day of the quiz.
CHAPTER 18
Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848–1854
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1.
How did the California gold rush result in inflaming strong sectional disputes?
2.
Who supported and who opposed the Compromise of 1850, what were its main provisions, and how
did it pass?
3.
What section benefited the most from the Compromise of 1850? Why?
4.
What foreign policy agreements were made with regard to Latin America and Asia?
5.
What were the explicit provisions and implicit understandings of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and what
were some of the consequences of its passage?
CHAPTER 19
Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854–1861
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1.
Who authored literature related to slavery that aroused sympathy in the North and ire in the South?
2.
How did events unfold in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
3.
What was the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?
4.
How did John Brown’s actions further entrench sectional differences?
5.
Who were the candidates for president in 1860, where did each get most of his support, and what
were the results of the election?
6.
What happened in the time between the election of 1860 and the inauguration of the new president?
CHAPTER 20
Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861–1865
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1.
What did Lincoln do that provoked South Carolina to bombard Fort Sumter, and what did Lincoln
do immediately following the attack?
2.
Which states were Border States and how did they influence Lincoln’s statements and actions?
3.
At the outbreak of war, what advantages did the South have and what advantages did the North
have?
4.
Why did the South believe they would be able to enlist foreign intervention and why were they
unable to do so?
5.
What incidents threatened peaceful relations between the Union and Britain?
6.
How did the war impact the economy in the North and the economy in the South?
CHAPTER 21
The Furnace of Civil War, 1861–1865
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1.
How successful was McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac?
2.
What are some of the pivotal battles of the Civil War and what was the outcome of each?
3.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do and how did it affect the Union cause?
4.
How successful was Lee as commander of the Confederate army?
5.
Once he was put in charge of the entire Union army, how did Grant prosecute the war until its end?
6.
What was the political situation as the election of 1864 approached, and how did Lincoln win a
reelection?
7.
What were the costs of the Civil War?
CHAPTER 22
The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1.
How did blacks respond to freedom, and what black organizations flourished?
2.
How had Lincoln hoped to accomplish Reconstruction, and what modifications did Johnson make to
Lincoln’s original plan?
3.
In what ways was Congressional Reconstruction different than Presidential Reconstruction?
4.
After gaining suffrage, how successful were blacks politically?
5.
What circumstances led to the impeachment and trial of President Johnson and what was the
outcome?
CHAPTER 23
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869–1896
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1.
Why were the times so prone to political corruption in the post–Civil War Era?
2.
What were the main issues surrounding the election of 1876? Did the Compromise of 1877 resolve
those issues?
3.
What were the biggest challenges facing the post–Reconstruction South?
4.
What were the main reasons for Chinese immigration in the second half of the nineteenth century?
5.
What were some of the reasons for the depression of 1893 and how did Cleveland deal with it?