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Goal 3 TEST Study Guide
CRISIS, CONFLICT, & RECONSTRUCTION
1. In the decades before the Civil War (antebellum period) the South prospered because of cotton, the Northeast prospered because
of factories, and the west prospered because of railroads.
2. The Fugitive Slave Act in the Compromise of 1850 was intended to support the institution of slavery; however, it increased the
hostility between North and South.
3. The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act all had to do with the issue of slavery in the
western territories.
4. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin would be MOST sympathetic to the cause of Harriett Beecher Stowe.
5. The result of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was increased hostility over the issue of slavery between the North and the South.
6. The Dred Scott Decision would have received support in the South because it protected the property rights of slave owners and
made slavery legal in every state and territory in the United States.
7. Many northerners were angered by the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it allowed for popular sovereignty in the western
territories.
8. Under popular sovereignty, the issue of slavery in the territories would be decided by a territorial election.
9. “Bleeding Kansas” refers to the increase in violence over the issue the extension of slavery in the western territories.
10. The greatest impact of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was that it deepened the division between North and South.
11. The main supporters of the new Republican Party were antislavery northerners.
12. The idea that the US was created by the states and that the states could therefore leave the Union if so desired was basically the
concept of states’ rights.
13. The event that caused the first southern states to secede from the Union was Lincoln’s election.
14. Initially, President Lincoln believed the main reason for the war was to preserve the Union.
15. The South’s greatest advantage over the North at the beginning of the Civil War was in the area of military leadership.
16. The first shot of the Civil War was ordered by P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general at Fort Sumter.
17. Maryland, Missouri, Delaware and Kentucky were slave states that did not join the Confederacy.
18. The Anaconda Plan was the Union strategy designed to cut the confederacy in half by gaining control of the Mississippi, attack
the Confederate capital at Richmond, and blockade the confederate coast to prevent the South from receiving supplies.
19. The turning point of the Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg.
20. The battle that gave Lincoln the victory he needed to declare the Emancipation Proclamation was Antietam.
21. The South believed that Great Britain would aid them in the Civil War because the South imported so much cotton there.
22. The Confederate strategy during the Civil War was to fight a defensive war and wait for assistance from European countries.
23. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in Southern states.
24. The primary purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau was to provide emergency food, clothing and schooling to freedmen.
25. One reason Congress tried to remove Andrew Johnson from office was he opposed the Radicals’ Reconstruction policies.
26. Members of the Ku Klux Klan would have resisted Congressional Reconstruction
27. The Lincoln plan for Reconstruction aimed to forgive the South and quickly reunite it with the Union.
28. In his impeachment trial Andrew Johnson escaped conviction by one vote.
29. Black suffrage led to the creation of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses that kept African Americans from voting in
the South.
30. After Rutherford B. Hayes became president in 1877 he removed federal troops from the South to end Reconstruction.
31. The passage of the Civil War Amendments was a major success of the Reconstruction period.
32. In Plessy v. Ferguson the decision of the Supreme Court was that the Jim Crow laws in the South did not violate the
constitutional rights of African Americans.
33. The President of the Confederacy was Jefferson Davis and the commander of the Confederate armed forces was Robert E. Lee.
34. Harriett Tubman contributed to abolition and the Civil War by helping former slaves escape to the North via the Underground
Railroad
35. Lee surrendered the Confederate troops and the South was defeated at Appomattox Court House.
36. An escaped slave who became the most famous abolitionist speaker and publisher of the North Star was Frederick Douglass.
37. The Dred Scott v. Sanford decision was based on the idea that African Americans were not and could not be citizens of the
United States.
38. The cotton gin contributed to the expansion of slavery by making cotton growing profitable as long as there was a plentiful
supply of cheap labor.
39. Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the evils of slavery and publicize the need for the abolition of slavery:
40. John C. Calhoun demanded that Congress pass a law that would protect the “property” of Southerners, by requiring that all
fugitives had to be returned to their owners in the South.
41. The northeast was the section of the United States in favor of having protective tariffs placed on all imported products.
42. The political issue that most seriously divided Northern and Southern politicians during the antebellum period was slavery in
the western territories.
43. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg.
44. The ratification of the 15th Amendment allowed the Republican Party to help themselves while at the same time they gave
suffrage to African Americans.
45. The Hayes-Tilden Compromise ended Reconstruction.
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Slavery in the Western Territories
Dred Scott Decision
Bleeding Kansas
States Rights
Military leadership
Anaconda
Antietam
Military leadership
Antislavery northerners
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Cotton
Abolitionism
Popular sovereignty
Confederacy
Factories
Lincoln’s Election
Gettysburg
Railroads
Harper’s Ferry
Fugitive Slave Act
Southern
Fort Sumter
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Great Britain
Preserve the Union
23-45
Rutherford B. Hayes
Fugitives
Hayes-Tilden Compromise
Appomattox Court House
Lincoln
Black suffrage
Antietam
Freedmans’ Bureau
Northeast
Cotton gin
Civil War Amendments
Jefferson Davis
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Cotton gin
Confederate
Andrew Johnson (2)
Ku Klux Klan
Slavery in the western territories
Robert E. Lee
Frederick Douglass
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott
15th Amendment
Harriett Tubman