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A Nation Divided
Chapters 21 – 23 Study Guide
Essential Questions:
Chapter 21: Which events of the mid-1800s kept the nation together and which pulled it apart?
Chapter 22: What factors and events influenced the outcome of the Civil War?
Chapter 23: To what extent did Reconstruction bring African American’s closer to full citizenship?
To Prepare:
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It is recommended that you prepare for the unit final by answering the questions below in bullet format on flash
cards – put the question on one side of the card and the answer(s) on the other side. If there are multiple
questions per bullet it might make sense to answer them on different note cards.
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Follow the same format for the terms below.
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Start now. Study a little bit each night. Focus on what you do not know.
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All information, including power point notes, can be found in the A Nation Divided folder in Edmodo. Also, you
should reference your student work packet for each chapter as well as additional notes you took on discussions
and videos.
Test Format:
The unit final will be a combination of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, and true/false. Also, be prepared to
identify specific details from major events covered in these chapters by looking at images and maps.
Questions to Know:
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What were the measures of the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What role did these Compromises have in increasing the dissention between the North and South?
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What was the significance of the election of 1860?
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What advantages and disadvantages did the North and South each have at the beginning of the Civil War?
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
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Which states seceded from the Union? Why did they secede?
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What were the war strategies of the Union and the Confederate armies?
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Why was it important for the Union to not lose the border-states to the Confederacy?
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What was the significance of each major battle of the Civil War (covered in your textbook)?
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Why was capturing Richmond and gaining control of the Mississippi River important for the Union?
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Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War?
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How the South rebuild after the war (types of Reconstruction)?
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What were the three new amendments to the Constitution and how did they impact the South?
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What role did Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe have on
the abolitionist movement?
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What inventions (technology, transportation, communication, and weaponry) impacted the war and its
outcome?
Terms/People to Know
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Dred Scott
Reconstruction
Jefferson Davis
Popular Sovereignty
“Stonewall” Jackson
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Gag” Rule
Robert E. Lee
Border States
John Brown/Harper’s Ferry
Segregation
George McClellan
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Emancipation Proclamation
George McClellan
Dates of Civil War
Tallmadge Amendment
Wilmot Proviso
Civil Rights
Black Codes
Women in the War
Sectionalism
Gettysburg Address
MA 54th Regiment
Total War
Andrew Johnson
Sharecropping
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ku Klux Klan
Bull Run
Vicksburg
Antietam
Sherman’s March
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Battles to Know:
Ft. Sumter
Merrimac v. Monitor