Download File - 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies

Georgia Studies/8th
Name: _____________________________________ Class Period: ________________
SS8H6: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
SETTING THE STAGE FOR WAR
1. List the 4 events that led to the Civil War. 1)_________________ 2)____________________
3)__________________________________ 4)________________________________________
2. Define secession: ____________________________________________________________
3. Southern states did not want which laws to overrule the laws of the state?________________
4. Why could Northern businesses not compete with businesses in the South?_______________
_____________________________________________________________________________
5. Did most Georgia farmers own slaves?____________________________________________
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820
1. What did the U.S. have an equal number of?________________________________________
2. What did the compromise seek a balance of?_______________________________________
3. Which state joined the Union as a slave state?_____________As a free state?______________
5. Which latitude line did the compromise ban slavery above?___________________________
THE TARIFFS OF 1828 AND 1832
1. Why was the Tariff (tax) of 1828 put in place?______________________________________
2. Define nullification:___________________________________________________________
3. Which state ignored the Tariff of 1828?___________________________________________
4. Why was the tariff modified in 1832?_____________________________________________
5. Which president threatened to use military force in S.C. in order to collect taxes?__________
COMPROMISE OF 1850
1. Which two states wanted to become states? 1)________________ 2)__________________
2. List the five parts of the Compromise of 1850: 1)___________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
2)_______________________________________3)___________________________________
4)____________________________________________________________________________
5)____________________________________________________________________________
3. What act says that all states must return runaway slaves to their owners?_________________
4. Define Popular Sovereignty:____________________________________________________
GEORGIA PLATFORM
1. What did the GA Platform support?______________________________________________
2. What is Alexander Stephens credited with?________________________________________
DRED SCOTT
1. Who was Dred Scott?__________________________________________________________
2. How long did he live in free territory?________ Why did Scott go to court in Missouri in
1846?_________________________________________________________________________
3. Did the U.S. Supreme Court allow Dred Scott to be a free man?________________________
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT OF 1854
1. What 2 states did the Act create? 1)_____________________ 2)_______________________
2. What did the 2 states use to determine the issue of slavery?____________________________
3. In 1857, Kansas voted to be a slave state. But U.S. Congress overturned the results, and in
1861, what did Kansas become?____________________________________________________
THE ELECTION OF 1860
1. Who ran under the Republic Party and won the election?______________________________
2. Lincoln won the election without what?____________________________________________
3. What did Lincoln’s election cause the South to debate?_______________________________
4. What was the first state to secede from the Union?___________________________________
5. GA became which state to secede from the Union?___________________________________
THE CIVIL WAR
1. Where did the first shots of the Civil War occur?_____________________________________
2. Who surrendered the fort to the Confederate (Southern) army?__________________________
3. The Union Navy blocked the ports from this state to this state?_________________________
THE CIVIL WAR – UNION BLACKADE OF GEORGIA’S COAST
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1. What GA fort did the Union bombard in April of 1862?_________________Where is it
located?_______________________________________________________________________
2. What were the 2 results of the Union blockade of the port? 1)__________________________
_____________________________2)_______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
THE CIVIL WAR – ANTIETAM/EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
1. What is important about the Battle of Antietam?_____________________________________
2. Who won this battle?____________ Who escaped to Virginia?_________________________
1. Who announced the Emancipation Proclamation?____________________________________
2. What did the Emancipation do?___________________________________________________
3. Why did the Confederacy not follow this new law?___________________________________
4. Why was the Emancipation Proclamation significant?
1)____________________________________________________________________________
2)____________________________________________________________________________
3)____________________________________________________________________________
4)____________________________________________________________________________
THE CIVIL WAR – WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN/BATTLE OF ATLANTA
1. What is the name of the Union General that invaded Atlanta?_________________________
2. Why was Atlanta important to the Confederacy?___________________________________
3. After Sherman won the Battle of Atlanta, what did he do to Atlanta?____________________
4. Define total war:______________________________________________________________
5. Sherman’s March to the Sea went between what 2 cities?______________________________
6. What did the Union do on the March to the Sea?_____________________________________
THE CIVIL WAR BATTLES– GETTYSBURG/CHICKAMAUGA
1. Where is Gettysburg located?________________ When was it fought?___________________
2. How many casualties of Gettysburg?__________________ How long?__________________
3. Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?_______________________________________________
4. What is Gettysburg considered?__________________________________________________
1. What was the bloodiest battle in Georgia?_________________ How long?________________
2. What were they fighting over?___________________________________________________
3. Who won the battle?_______________________ How many casualties?__________________
THE CIVIL WAR – ANDERSONVILLE PRISON (GEORGIA)/APPOMATTOX
1. Who was imprisoned in Andersonville Prison?_______________________________________
2. Because of bad conditions, how many men died out of 45,000?__________________________
3. When did the South surrender to the North at Appomattox?_____________________________
RECONSTRUCTION
1. What happened during Reconstruction?____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. Under Lincoln, what percentage of the voting population needed to promise loyalty to the
Union?__________ Under Lincoln, what did the states have to outlaw?____________________
3. Define Radical Republicans:_____________________________________________________
4. Who killed Lincoln on April 14, 1865?______________The next president?_______________
6. Under Johnson, who could not vote?______________________________________________
7. Under Johnson, the states had to ratify what amendment?_______ What did this amendment
say?__________________________________________________________________________
8. What 4 things did the Freedmen’s Bureau do? 1)____________________________________
2)______________________________________ 3)____________________________________
4)____________________________________________________________________________
9. Define the 14th Amendment:__________________________________________________
10. Define the 15th Amendment:_________________________________________________
11. Who was Henry McNeal Turner?_____________________________________________
12. Who was Tunis Campbell?__________________________________________________
13. Define sharecropping:_______________________________________________________
14. Define tenant farming:_______________________________________________________
15. Who were/are the Ku Klux Klan?______________________________________________
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