Download Chapter 10: The Union in Crisis

Ms. Kirst
U.S. History 1860-WWII
Unit 1: Civil War & Reconstruction Study Guide
Chapter 10: The Union in Crisis
Objectives: By the end of the unit students will be able to:
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Explain how the nation’s expansion led to the Civil War.
Contrast the economies, societies, and political views of the North and South.
Describe the role of the Free-Soil Party in the election of 1848.
Analyze why slavery in the territories was a divisive issue between North and South and
how Congress tried to settle the issue.
Analyze why the Fugitive Slave Act increased tensions between the North and South.
Assess how the Kansas-Nebraska Act was seen differently by the North and South.
Explain why fighting broke out in Kansas and the effects of that conflict.
Analyze how depending sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics.
Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas on the issue of slavery.
Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate.
Compare the candidates in the election of 1860, and analyze the results.
Analyze why southern states seceded from the Union.
Assess the events that led to the outbreak of war.
Key Terms
Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
popular sovereignty
secede
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
personal liberty laws
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
Know-Nothings
Republican Party
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Harpers Ferry
Election of 1860
Confederate States of
America
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter
James Buchanan
Henry Clay
John Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Jefferson Davis
John C. Breckenridge
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Daniel Webster
People
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney
Ms. Kirst
U.S. History 1860-WWII
Unit 1: Civil War & Reconstruction Study Guide
Chapter 11: The Civil War
Objectives: By the end of the unit students will be able to:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
M.
N.
Explain the causes, key events, and effects of the Civil War.
Contrast the resources and strategies of the North and South.
Describe the outcomes and effects of the early battles of the Civil War.
Analyze why Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and what it
achieved.
Assess the different roles that African Americans played in the Civil War.
Analyze how the war changed the economy and society in the North and South.
Discuss how northern and southern soldiers experienced the war.
Explain the impact of war on women.
Explain what the Union gained by capturing Vicksburg.
Describe the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Analyze how the Union pressed its military advantage after 1863.
Analyze the final events of the Civil War.
Explain why the North won the war.
Assess the impact of the Civil War on the North and South.
Key Terms
blockade
Anaconda Plan
War of Attrition
Border state
contraband
Emancipation
Proclamation
Militia Act
54th Massachusetts
Regiment
income tax
bond
Homestead Act
conscription
Copperhead
habeus corpus
inflation
siege
Gettysburg Address
total war
Thirteenth Amendment
Land Grant College Act
Clara Barton
George Pickett
William Tecumseh
Sherman
John Wilkes Booth
Matthew Brady
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Sherman’s March
Appomattox Courthouse
People
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
George B. McClellan
Ulysses S. Grant
Key Battles & Campaigns
Shiloh
Antietam
Ms. Kirst
U.S. History 1860-WWII
Unit 1: Civil War & Reconstruction Study Guide
Chapter 12: The Reconstruction Era
Objectives: By the end of the unit students will be able to:
A. Identify the lasting consequences that arose from the struggle over Reconstruction.
B. Explain why a plan was needed for Reconstruction of the South.
C. Compare the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress.
D. Discuss Johnson’s political difficulties and impeachment.
E. Explain how Republicans gained control of southern state governments.
F. Discuss how freedmen adjusted to freedom and the South’s new economic system.
G. Summarize efforts to limit African Americans’ rights and the federal government’s response.
H. Explain why Reconstruction ended.
I. Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction.
Key Terms
Reconstruction
Radical Republican
Wade-Davis Bill
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black code
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of
1867
Fourteenth Amendment
impeach
Fifteenth Amendment
scalawag
carpetbagger
segregation
integration
sharecropping
share-tenancy
tenant farming
Klu Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts of 1870
“Tweed Ring”
Redeemer
Compromise of 1877
Slaughterhouse Cases
U.S. v. Cruickshank
Plessy v. Ferguson
AWSA
NWSA
People
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Thomas Nast
Ulysses S. Grant
William “Boss” Tweed
Samuel Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
Elizabeth Cady Stanton