Remediation Unit 3
I.
Causes of the Civil War (List the Key Details and Main Effects)
a. Wilmot Proviso 1846
i. Details –
ii. Effects – Tensions between the North and the South continued to
rise.
b. Compromise of 1850
i. Details-
ii. Effects- For a short time tensions in the country appeared to
lessen.
c. Kansas-Nebraska Acti. Details-
ii. Effects- Thousands of people rushed to Kansas from the North and
South, hoping to make it either slave or free; Republican Party
forms
d. “Bleeding Kansas” 1856
i. Details-
ii. Effects- Violence poured over into Congress (Brooks-Sumner
Incident); All previous compromises on the question of slavery
were becoming ineffective
e. Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857
i. Details-
ii. Effects- Missouri Compromise unconstitutional; Congress could
not restrict slavery in the territories; Northerners became more
determined to stop the spread of slavery
f. Uncle Tom’s Cabin published by Harriet Beecher Stowe
i. Details-
ii. Effects- more Northerners firmly oppose slavery
g. Election of 1860
i. Detailsii. Effects- South Carolina became the first state to secede from the
Union (Dec. 20, 1860)
Multiple Choice Questions Causes of the Civil War
1. Which answer best outlines the Wilmot Proviso?
a. A proposal to buy part of present day New Mexico
b. A proposal to outlaw the spread of slavery into territories gained by
the Mexican war
c. A proposal to cut off funding for the Mexican War
d. A resolution praising heroism of those killed in the raid at Harper’s
Ferry
2. What was the main effect of the Dred Scott decision?
a. The Supreme Court shocked the nation by ruling that slavery was
immoral and unconstitutional.
b. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens, that they had no
rights, and that Congress had no power to halt the spread of slavery.
c. Proslavery advocates became discouraged and flocked to the
Republican Party.
d. Scott was declared a free man.
3. Which part of the Compromise of 1850 received the greatest support from
southern farmers?
a. the admission of California as a free state
b. the passage of a strict fugitive slave law
c. the end of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
d. the allowance of popular sovereignty in new territories
II.
The Civil War (Turning Points, Key Details, and Significance to Outcome)
a. First Battle of Bull Run (1861)
i. Key Detailsii. Significance – Lincoln prepares for a long conflict
b. Battle of Antietam (1862)
i. Key Details- General Lee attacked into the Union (Maryland);
Union Army defeated Lee and drove Confederate Army back into
the South.
ii. Significance-
c. The Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
i. Key Detailsii. Significance- gave the war a deeper moral purpose beyond saving
the union; allowed free blacks to serve in the Union Army;
angered the Confederate States
d. Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
i. Key Details-
ii. Significance- turning point battle of the war; from this point on,
Lee and the Confederates were on the defensive
e. Grant wins at Vicksburg (1863)
i. Key Details- Confederate fort along the Mississippi River
surrenders after a long siege
ii. Significancef. Sherman’s March to the Sea (1864-1865)
i. Key Detailsii. Significance- “Total War”, Sherman fights not only Confederate
Army but the people of the South who support the war; adds to
the South’s discouragement and anger
g. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
i. Key Details- After pursuing Lee for months, Grant’s forces finally
trap Lee’s army and force them to surrender.
ii. SignificanceMultiple Choice Civil War
1. Which statement best describes “Sherman’s March to the Sea”?
a. The battle that defeated New Orleans
b. The Union Army’s destruction of wide of a wide area of Georgia and
South Carolina
c. A symbolic gesture, made to encourage recently freed slaves
d. A Confederate attempt to seize Washington D.C.
2. Why can the Emancipation Proclamation be seen as a diplomatic
document?
a. It made it hard for foreign nations to recognize and support
the Confederacy.
b. It warned European nations to stay out of affairs in the
Western Hemisphere.
c. It called on England and France to sell weapons to the Union
army.
d. It encouraged France to sell the Louisiana Territory to the
United States.
2. Which battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
a. Battle of Bull Run
b. Battle of Gettysburg
c. Battle of Chancellorsville
d. Appomattox Courthouse
III.
Reconstruction
a. Lincoln’s Plan
i. Main Pointsii. Why Congress did not like?
b. Johnson’s Plan
i. Main Pointsii. Why Congress did not like?
c. Congressional Reconstruction (Radical Republican Reconstruction)
i. Main Pointsii. What was the military’s role?
d. The End of Reconstruction
i. What ended Reconstruction?ii. What happened to the South after Reconstruction?
e. Reconstruction Amendments
i. 13th Amendmentii. 14th Amendment
iii. 15th Amendment
Multiple Choice
1. Which action abolished slavery in the United States?
a. suspension of habeas corpus
b. passage of the Thirteenth Amendment
c. passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
d. delivery of the Gettysburg Address
2. Which of these is the strongest evidence of the federal government showing its
power over state governments during the Reconstruction period?
a. the creation of the sharecropping system
b. the migration of carpetbaggers into southern states
c. the military occupation of former Confederate states
d. the creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau
3. Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?
a. The president refused to follow Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan.
b. The president violated the Tenure of Office Act.
c. Congress wanted to test the Fifteenth Amendment.
d The Supreme Court supported separation of powers.