Unit 4 Study Sheet-1301
Describe the following persons:
William H. Seward
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Define/Explain the following terms:
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Appomattox Courthouse Emancipation Proclamation
Freedmen’s Bureau
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Jim Crow laws
Ku Klux Klan
Election of 1876
“Black Codes”
Carpetbaggers
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Compromise of 1877
Short Essay Questions: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Why did Secessionist support leaving the Union?
Why did Confederate soldiers fire on Fort Sumter?
What was the Confederate strategy to win the Civil War?
Why was the Union victory at Vicksburg important?
Who were the “Redeemer’s?”
Long Essay Questions: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Explain in detail the Confederate strategy to win the Civil War?
How accurate is the description that the Battle of Gettysburg and the Union victory at
Vicksburg were “turning points” in the war?
Explain the concept of Radical Reconstruction. Was it successful?
Describe how the Civil War changed American society and its economy, both in the
North and in the South?