Ch 10 & 11: The Civil War Name:__________________________Per.____Date____
Chapter 10: The Coming of the Civil War
Section 1: Two Nations (346-350)
Terms/People
Union:
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Telegraph:
F. B. Morse:
Main Ideas
1) Why do some historians think the Civil War was unavoidable?
2) What arguments did abolitionists use against slavery?
3) How did Southerners view slavery?
4) What were some important differences between the North and the South?
Section 2: The Mexican War and Slavery Extension (351-354)
Terms/People
Manifest Destiny:
Annex:
Santa Anna:
Mexican War:
Bear Flag Revolt:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Main Ideas
1) What events led to the annexation of Texas?
2) Why did the United States go to war with Mexico?
3) Why did the Wilmot Proviso lead to conflict?
Section 3: New Political Parties (355-361)
Term/People
Compromise of 1850:
Fugitive Slave Act:
Nativism:
Know Nothing Party:
Stephen Douglas:
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
Popular Sovereignty:
Main Ideas
1) What were the effects of the Missouri Compromise?
2) What did the Compromise of 1850 accomplish?
3) How did political Parties change in the 1850’s?
4) Why did Stephen Douglas propose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Section 4: The System Fails (363-368)
Terms/People
Free Soilers:
Bleeding Sumner:
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lincoln-Douglas Debates:
Main Ideas
1) Why did violence erupt in Kansas in the mid-1850’s?
2) How did slavery affect national politics in this period?
3) What important issues were discussed in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
4) How did John Brown’s raid increase tensions between the North and the South?
Section 5 : A Nation Divided Against Itself (369-373)
Terms/People
Border States:
Secessionists:
Confederate States of America:
Fort Sumter:
Main Ideas
1) How did the election of 1860 demonstrate the split between the North and the South?
2) What concerns led the Lower South to secede from the Union?
3) What event started the Civil War?
Ch. 11: The Civil War
Section 1: From Bull Run to Antietam (380-389)
Terms & People
General Irving McDowell:
General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson:
General George McClellan:
General Ulysses S. Grant:
General Albert Sidney Johnston:
General Robert E. Lee:
General John Pope:
War of Attrition:
Battle of Shiloh:
Battle of Antietam:
Main Ideas
1) What was the significance of the First Battle of Bull Run?
2) How did the North and the South prepare for war?
3) Why were the battles in the West important?
4) What was the outcome of each of the battles in the East in 1862?
Section 2: Life Behind the Lines
Terms and People
Jefferson Davis:
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw:
Clara Barton:
Draft:
Greenback:
Copperhead:
Martial Law:
Writ of Habeas Corpus:
Emancipation Proclamation:
Contraband:
Main Ideas
1) How did wartime politics affect the Confederate and Union governments?
2) How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect both the North and the South?
3) What were the causes and effects of African Americans joining the Union army?
4) What kinds of hardships befell the North and the South during the war?
Section 3: The Tide of War Turns
Terms and People
General Ambrose Burnside:
Joseph “Fighting” Hooker:
General J.E.B. Stewart:
General George Meade:
General James Longstreet:
Colonel Joshua Chamberlain:
General George Pickett:
General William Tecumseh Sherman:
Battle of Fredericksburg:
Battle of Chancellorsville:
Battle of Gettysburg:
Pickett’s Charge:
Siege:
Gettysburg:
Main Ideas
1) What was the importance of Lee’s victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville?
2) How did the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg turn the tide of the war?
3) Why was 1863 a pivotal year?
4) What is the message of the Gettysburg Address?
Section 4: Devastation and New Freedom
Terms & People
John Wilkes Booth:
Battle of the Wilderness:
Battle of Spotsylvania:
Battle of Cold Harbor:
Thirteenth Amendment:
Guerrilla:
Main Ideas
1) What was General Grant’s strategy for defeating the South, and how did he and General Sherman
implement it?
2) What were the issues and results of the election of 1864?
3) How was the South finally defeated on the battlefield?
4) How and why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Lincoln?