HCC 1301 Unit III Study Guide
America in Crisis: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
sectionalism
nativism
demonize
watershed
popular sovereignty
secession
total war
the views Americans in the North and the South developed of each other in the 1850’s
the specific goals of the third parties arising in the North in the 1850’s
events in Kansas that became a rehearsal for the Civil War
the momentum of events in the 1850’s that moved the country to war
the significance of the presidential elections of 1860 and 1876
the sequence and political process of Southern secession
the significance of the Border States
reasons why the Civil War was the greatest watershed in U.S. history
Lincoln’s view of secession
the deciding factors, ironies, and characteristics of the war
the Lincoln assassination
the power struggles that occurred during Reconstruction and the elements of Radical Reconstruction
the effects of the war on the South
the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
the legacy of Reconstruction
the Slave Power
the Fire-eaters
the Free Soil Party
the American Party
the Know-Nothings
the Republican Party
the Redeemers
the Ku Klux Klan
Fort Sumter
Antietam
Appomattox
Jim Crow laws
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
the raid on Harper’s Ferry
the Homestead Act
the mini-ball
the Pacific Union RR Act
greenbacks
the Radical Republicans
sharecropping
the 1st Battle of Bull Run
the Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea
de jure segregation
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stephen A. Douglas
Charles Sumner
Andrew Butler
the Anaconda Plan
the Emancipation Proclamation
the Copperheads
the Morrill College Land Grant Act
Ford Theater
the Freedmen’s Bureau
the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
the siege of Vicksburg
the Battle of New Orleans
the siege of Atlanta
the Compromise of 1877
the Black Codes
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Preston Brooks
Ullysses.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
John Wilkes Booth
Mary Surratt
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Beecher Bibles”
the “sack of Lawrence”
“Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott v. Samford
“forty acres and a mule”
“the harlot slavery as his mistress”
the “Pottawatomie massacre”
“a house divided against itself cannot stand”
“not a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight”
“War is hell.”
Andrew Johnson
William Tecumseh Sherman
Rutherford B. Hayes
“a peaceful appeal to the ballot box”
“bind up the nation’s wounds”