Unit 4 Study Sheet-1301
Chapter 14: The Sectional Crisis
Compromise of 1850
Popular Sovereignty
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Explain the main aspects of the Dred Scott Case?
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Lecompton Constitution
Know-Nothings
William H. Seward
Chapter 15: Secession and the Civil War
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?
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Why was the Union victory at Vicksburg important?
How accurate is the description that the Battle of Gettysburg and the Union victory at
Vicksburg were “turning points” in the war?
Gettysburg Address
Appomattox Courthouse Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Emancipation Proclamation
Chapter 16: The Agony of Reconstruction
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
“Black Codes”
Fourteenth Amendment
Carpetbaggers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Fifteenth Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmen’s Bureau
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Explain the concept of Radical Reconstruction. Was it successful?
Who were the “Redeemer’s?”
Election of 1876
Jim Crow laws
Compromise of 1877
Compare and contrast the three main plans for Reconstruction: Lincoln’s, Johnson’s,
and the Radical Republicans. What did each plan want to do and how successful was
each plan?
Describe how the Civil War changed American society and its economy, both in the
North and in the South?