Name ___________________________________________
Hour __________
Score _______
Unit 4 Vocabulary: The Nation Splits Apart (Chapter 10)
WORD
DEFINITION
Missouri
Compromise
(1820) An agreement that allowed ________________ to
enter the Union as a _________ state and ____________
to enter as a _________ state and __________________
_______________________________________________
or states north of 36˚30’ N. latitude (243)
1.
2.
3.
4.
States’
Rights
Abolition
Movement
Belief that the _________________________________
____________________________ than the power of the
______________________________(R112)
Details from your notes or the book
Explain why it was important to keep a
balance of power in the Senate.
Do you support states rights or power
of the federal government? Explain.
_______________________________________________
___________________________________________(288)
(1817-1895) American ___________________________,
he escaped _________________________ and became
a leading African American spokesman and writer. He
published an autobiography, _______________________
__________________________________, and founded
the abolitionist newspaper, the ____________ _________
(R35)
What actor would play him in a movie?
5.
(1805-1879) American journalist and reformer; he
published the famous ____________________________,
the ____________________________, and helped found
the____________________________________________,
promoting _________________________________ (R37)
Did he support gradual or immediate
emancipation?
6.
Compromise
of 1850
Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed
_____________________________________________
_________________ state and divided the rest of the
Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would
be decided by _____________________________ (R94)
How did this differ from the Missouri
Compromise?
Frederick
Douglass
William
Lloyd Garrison
7.
Describe your feelings about this act.
Fugitive
Slave Act
8.
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
(1850) _________________________________________
_______________________________________________
(325)
(1852) An antislavery novel written by _______________
________________________________ (325)
Write a brief summary of the book:
WORD
DEFINITION
Popular
Sovereignty
The idea that ___________________________________
__________________________________________ (326)
9.
10.
KansasNebraska Act
11.
Why would Thomas Jefferson support
this idea?
What happened in Kansas as a result
of this act?
Describe the Sack of Lawrence.
Bleeding
Kansas
12.
John Brown
13.
(1854) A law that allowed _________________________
_______________________________________________
(326)
Details from your notes or the book
Guerrilla
War
(1856) Nickname given to Kansas after ______________
______________________________________________
_________________________________ (330)
(1800-1859) American abolitionist; he started the
Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas to ________________
______________________________________. He later
_________________________________ in __________
______________, Virginia, to ______________________
___________. He was ______________________. (R34)
Name three adjectives that describe
this man.
Fighting marked by ______________________________
_________________________________________ (332)
14.
Dred Scott
Decision
(1857) A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that _____________
_______________________________________, that the
_______________________________________________
was unconstitutional, and that ______________________
_______________________________________________
in any federal territory (333)
What the attitudes of Northerners and
Southerners as a result?
15.
(1807-1870) American general; he refused Lincoln’s offer
to head the Union Army and agreed to _______________
______________________________. He successfully led
several major battles until_________________________
_________, and he ___________________ to the Union’s
commander General _____________ at ______________
______________________________. (R39)
Describe how Lee’s loyalties were torn
between the Union & Confederacy.
(1809-1865) Sixteenth president of the United States; he
promoted ______________________________________
______________ in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates.
He issued the ___________________________________
and set in motion the Civil War. He was assassinated in
1865. (R40)
Where does he rank in your mind? Why?
16.
Robert E.
Lee
Abraham
Lincoln
17.
Lincoln/
Douglas Debates
Whose side do you support? Why?
A series ________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_________________________________ in Illinois (R103)
Name ___________________________________________
Hour __________
Score _______
Unit 4 Vocabulary: Civil War and Reconstruction (Ch. 11-12)
Definitions
1.
2.
Jefferson
Davis
Border
States
3.
4.
5.
6.
(1808-1889) First and ____________________________
__________________________________________ after
the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to
the______________________________________. (R35)
______________________________________________;
slave states in between the North and South that ______
_______________________________________________
________________________ (R92)
Infantry
______________________________ (364)
Cavalry
__________________________________________ (365)
Ulysses S.
Grant
Ironclads
7.
Emancipation
Proclamation
Emancipation
8.
Freedmen
9.
Habeas
Corpus
10.
Battle of
Gettysburg
11.
Siege of
Vicksburg
12.
Thirteenth
Amendment
13.
Ten-Percent
Plan
Details from your notes or the book
(1822-1885) ________ president of the United States; he
received a field promotion to ____________________
_______________ in charge of ____________________
_______________. He accepted ___________________
____________________________ at _______________,
______________________ending the Civil War. (R37)
Kentucky was one of the most divided
states during the Civil War. Most state
government officials were opposed to
_____________________, but many
citizens _________________________
___________________.
His victory at ____________________
was a turning point in the war because
it split _________________________.
_______________________________________________
up to three inches thick (366) *Union ironclads were vital
to the _________________________________________
(picture 389)
On ____________________, _______ President Abraham
Lincoln issued this document that ___________________
_______________________________________________
___________________________ (372)
The act of _____________________________________.
A term for _________________________________ (373)
The constitutional protection _______________________
______________________________ (377)
(1863) A __________ Civil War victory that ___________
_______________________________________________
at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (R90)
(1863) In May, General Grant began a siege to ________
__________________ and it’s ______________________
_____________________________. The victory gave the
Union control of the ____________________ River. (386)
Significance:
Significance:
(1865) ____________________________________(391)
President ______________________________________
for Reconstruction (405)
Why show leniency towards the South?
14.
Andrew
Johnson
(1808-1875) American politician who became the ______
president of the United States upon the assassination of
Lincoln. He was _________________________________
___________________________________ and held onto
the office by a ______________________ margin. (R39)
Ku Klux
Klan
A secret society that used _________________________
__________________________________________ from
obtaining their civil rights (R102)
Radical
Republicans
Members of Congress who felt that __________________
_______________________________________________
______________________________ to the Union (R109)
15.
16.
17.
Reconstruction
Acts
18.
Fourteenth
Amendment
19.
Fifteenth
Amendment
20.
Impeachment
21.
Scalawag
22.
Carpetbagger
23.
Compromise
of 1877
24.
25.
26.
What was the primary reason for his
impeachment?
Identify two of their main goals:
-
(1867-1868) The laws that put the __________________
___________________________________________ and
required them to draft______________________. (R109)
(1866) Gave full rights of__________________________
______________________________________________,
except for __________________________ (414)
(1870) Gave ____________________________________
_______________________________________ (415)
The process used by a ____________________________
_______________________________________________
__________________________ (415)
Name given by former Confederates to ______________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
(416)
Derogatory nickname given by Southern critics to ______
_______________________________________________
__________________________ (417)
An agreement to settle the disputed presidential election
of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept Republican
____________________________________ as president
in return for the _________________________________
(R94)
Literary
Test
A test that _____________________________________
_____________________ (494)
Jim Crow
Laws
Laws that enforced ______________________________
________________________ (508)
Poll Tax
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
(508)
These laws created a ______________
_______________________________.