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1
NINE
WEEKS
REVIEW
US HISTORY CIVIL WAR –EARLY 1900S
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
•Name the advantages that the Confederacy had
over Union forces
they were fighting in their own territory
Their population was larger
Better leadership from top rate generals
Highly motivated to fight; had a strong cause to
fight
•What group helped the runaway slaves on the
Underground Railroad?
Abolitionists
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
•What caused the first southern states to secede
from the Union?
President Lincoln is elected
•What is habeas corpus?
Can’t be held in jail without being accused of a crime
•Why did Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
Arrest and hold Confederate sympathizers living in
the Union
•What is significant about the Gettysburg Address
when it says “…of the people, by the people, for the
people…”?
It reminds the people of the true nature of a
democratic government.
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
•Which terms of the Compromise of 1850 would
have most pleased southerners?
Admitting Missouri as a slave state or the
creation of the Fugitive Slave Act
•What was Clara Barton best known for in
regards to the Civil War?
Served as a nurse for the wounded on both sides
•What is Clara Barton’s lasting legacy today?
Started medical practices that formed the basis
of modern battlefield medicine (Red Cross)
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
•What was the significance of the Battle of
Gettysburg?
It was the last time the South would invade the Union
•What is the main reason why there was such a high
mortality rate during the Civil War?
New, deadlier technology was too much for the older
war tactics armies were using
•Why did the US draft laws of 1863 anger the poor,
working class?
Because people could pay $300 to have someone
replace them and the poor did not have that kind of
money
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
• What is popular sovereignty?
The people choose how the government run
and/or officials to represent them in the
government
• Under this notion, who would decide whether
slavery would be allowed in a new territory?
The people of that territory
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
•Which law allowed for FL to join the Union as a
slave state while Iowa joined as a free state in
1945?
The Missouri Compromise
•Why did violence erupt in “Bleeding Kansas”?
The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
•What did Lincoln and Andrew Johnson have in
common in regards to Reconstruction?
Both wanted the Southern states to reenter the
nation as quickly as possible.
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
• For which amendment did the Emancipation
Proclamation lay the foundation for?
13th amendment (ended slavery)
• Did the Emancipation Proclamation end
slavery?
NO!!!
• Who issued it? Congress or President
Lincoln?
Lincoln since he was commander-in-chief
CIVIL WAR AND
RECONSTRUCTION
•Why were the Radical Republicans opposed to
Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
They thought he was too lenient; they wanted the
South to pay for everything; he offered
forgiveness to nearly all Confederates who
would support the US
•What is sharecropping?
•How did it continue the cycle of oppression of
newly freed slaves?
It made them economically dependent on
farmers since the majority, if not all, of their
wages went back to the landowners
CIVIL WAR &
RECONSTRUCTION
•Name what each of the following Amendments did.
•13th
Ended slavery
•14th
Allowed for equal rights for all men
•15th
Allowed for all men to vote
CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
•What was the main reason why Andrew Johnson
was impeached (removed from being president).
He constantly opposed Congress’s proposals for
Reconstruction; there was always a power
struggle between the two
•Which Supreme Court Decision decided that
slaves were considered property and not citizens.
Therefore they could not sue another citizen?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
•What was the greatest success of the Freedman’s
Bureau?
Secured funding and support for education
CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
•What were the end results of the Compromise
of 1877?
Hayes elected president & withdrawal of troops
from the South to end Reconstruction
INDUSTRIALIZATION
•What is Social Darwinism?
•What are some of the ideas did Social Darwinism
supported?
Accumulation of wealth
Hard work
Industrialization
People become rich because that is the law of nature and the
law of God
INDUSTRIALIZATION
•What is Samuel Gompers best known for?
He was a leader in the labor union movement
•Why were time zones invented?
To accommodate the schedules of railroad
companies and train travelers
•Why did business tycoons establish trusts
during the late 1800s?
To reduce competition
•What law outlawed the formation of trusts that
interfered with free trade?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
INDUSTRIALIZATION
•What was the main goal of the ICC (Interstate Commerce Act)?
To decrease excessive railroad shipping rates
•Describe vertical integration
-It was used by Andrew Carnegie
-Allows companies to reduce costs and charge higher prices to
competitors
-Companies buy out raw material producers and distributors
INDUSTRIALIZATION
•What is the Bessemer process?
A process for purifying iron which made steel; allowed for
mass production of steel (easier and cheaper)
•Why was the Bessemer process so important?
Without it, buildings and suspension bridges could not be
made as quickly as they were made
IMMIGRATION
•What was the name of the island where Asian immigrants were
processed? Where was it located?
Angel Island; San Francisco
•Name the four “native” characteristics based on the acronym
WASP
(1)White (2)Anglo-(3)Saxon (4)Protestant
•What was the purpose of Americanization?
To assimilate people of various cultures into one dominant culture
IMMIGRATION
•Name some of the countries from where the “new
immigrant” would have come.
Poland
Austria
Spain
Italy
•Name pull factors
Jobs, religious freedom, better living conditions
•Name push factors
Unemployment, religious persecution, famine, civil
war