Civil War Review Sheet
Cause of the War
Popular Sovereignty
Free Soil Party, politicians, and their Ideas
Underground Railroad
The terms of the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
The political views and views on slavery of Stephen A Douglas
Kansas Nebraska Act
Know Nothing Party / Nativists
Mason Dixon Line
Prominent Abolitionists and their arguments
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its effects on North and South
Bleeding Kansas
Northerner and Southern response to John Brown’s Trial
Dred Scott Case Decision and the impact
Economic Effects of Panic of 1857
Major Arguments of Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Significance of Harpers Ferry Raid
Free Soilers VS. Abolitionists
Lincoln’s “A House Divided” Speech
Divisions within the Democrats
Coalition of the New Republican Party
Campaigns / Election of 1860
Failure of Crittenden Compromise
Jefferson Davis / Alexander H. Stephens
Reasons for South Carolina Secession
Formation of Confederacy
Civil War 1861-1865
Significance of Fort Sumter
Border States
Pro Lincoln and Anti Lincoln arguments for Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Northern Advantages / Disadvantages going into war
Southern Advantages / Disadvantages going into war
George McClellan’s conflict with Lincoln
Impact of Stonewall Jackson / What did he represent about the Southern culture?
Strategy of Robert Lee VS. Ulysses Grant
Immigrant participation
Cotton Production during war
England and France’s role
NY Draft Riots
Economics in North and South
Significance of First Bull Run
Significance of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Significance of Gettysburg
William T Sherman
Georgia Campaign
Election of 1864
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s Assassination
Appomattox Courthouse
Reconstruction
Political Goals
Social / Cultural Goals
Economic Goal
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Freedmen Bureau
Black Codes
Jim Crow laws
Voting Restrictions
Andrew Johnson
Copperheads
Carpetbaggers
10 percent plan
Sharecroppers
40 acres and a mule
Morrill Tariff
Pacific Railroad Act
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
African American participation in government
KKK
Johnson Impeachment
Corruption in Grant Administration
End of Reconstruction