Goal 2: Expansion and Reform Study Guide



Goal 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction Study Guide

Textbook Chapters 6, 7 and 8 and internet resources

Terms and Concepts to Understand:

|Chapter 6 |Chapter 7 |Chapter 8 |

|Know-Nothings |Anaconda Plan |Freedman's Bureau |

|Abolitionist movement |Blockade |Radical Republicans |

|Slave Codes |First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas |Reconstruction Plans |

|Underground Railroad |Antietam |Thaddeus Stevens |

|Harriet Tubman |Vicksburg |Andrew Johnson |

|Free Soil Party |Gettysburg |Compromise of 1877 |

|Compromise of 1850 |Gettysburg Address |Tenure of Office Act |

|Popular Sovereignty |Sherman's March |Johnson's Impeachment |

|Fugitive Slave Act |African-American participation |Scalawags |

|Harriet Beecher Stowe |Robert E. Lee |Carpetbaggers |

|Uncle Tom's Cabin |Ulysses S. Grant |Black Codes |

|Kansas-Nebraska Act |George McClellan |Ku Klux Klan |

|Bleeding Kansas |Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |Sharecroppers |

|Republican Party |Strengths and weaknesses of each side: |Tenant farmers |

|Brooks-Sumner Incident |• New military technology |Jim Crow Laws |

|Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) |• Strategies of both sides |Solid South |

|Lincoln-Douglas Debates |• European support |Grandfather Clause |

|Freeport Doctrine |• Major political and military leaders |Military Reconstruction |

|John Brown and Harpers Ferry |• Economy and industrialization |13th amendment |

|Election of 1860 |Writ of Habeas Corpus |14th amendment |

|Fort Sumter, S.C. |Copperheads |15th amendment |

|Abraham Lincoln |Election of 1864 |Civil Rights Act of 1866 |

|Jefferson Davis |Emancipation Proclamation |Election of 1876 |

|Confederacy |Appomattox Courthouse |Compromise of 1877 |

| |John Wilkes Booth | |

Goal 3 – TEST REVIEW AND REMEDIATION QUESTIONS

Answer on your own paper and for clear, detailed answers, you can earn up to 2 points per question to be added to your unit test grades. You can only do test remediation for grade below 70% These MUST be turned in within 1 week of the test to earn credit. You will “max out” at 75% on the final test grade if you do remediation.

1. How did the Mexican War lead to an increase in tensions between the North and the South?

2. How did territorial expansion lead to an increase in tensions between the North and South?

3. How did Congress attempt to solve the problems created by territorial expansion?

4. How did the issue of slavery lead to the civil war?

5. What were the major causes of the civil war?

6. Why did the election of Lincoln lead to southern secession?

7. Who were the key personalities and major battles of the Civil War?

8. Why were the Battle of Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg were considered the turning points of the war?

9. Explain the idea behind the Anaconda Plan?

10. In what ways did politics affect the outcome of the war?

11. How are civil liberties (freedoms) challenged during times of conflict?

12. What role did politics play in designing plans to rebuild the economy of the south?

13. How did the economy of the south change following the Civil War?

14. How did Reconstruction impact the lives of former Slaves, and poor Whites?

15. To what extent did Reconstruction establish the supremacy of the National government?

16. To what extent did the government of the south change as a result of the Civil War?

17. To what extent were African Americans represented in the new government?

18. How and why did Reconstruction come to an end?

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