Unit 6 Review Guide
Civil War
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Crittenden Compromise
Homestead Act
Bonds
National Draft Law
Copperheads
Habeas corpus
Andrew Johnson
George B. McClellan
Thaddeus Stevens
Benjamin Wade
Emancipation Proclamation
National Women’s Loyal League
Clara Barton
Alexander Stephans
Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Presidential reconstruction
Black Codes
First Civil Rights Act
14th Amendment
Congressional Reconstruction
15th Amendment
Tenure of Office Act
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Civil Rights Act of 1875
40 acres and a mule
Crop Lien system
Horace Greeley
Credit Mobilier
Whiskey Ring
Panic of 1873
Greenbacks
Seward’s Folly
Ku Klux Klan
Compromise of 1877
Redeemers
New South
Tenants and Sharecroppers
Conscription Act
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Merrimac
Monitor
William Seward
Trent Affair
First Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Shiloh
Antietam
Stonewall Jackson
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
William T. Sherman
March to the Sea
Appomattox Courthouse
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
Jim Crow
Plessey v. Ferguson, 1896
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Laws
Lynching’s
The West
Plains Indians
Californios
Barrios
Homestead Act
Chisholm Trail
“Rocky Mountain School”
Frederick Jackson Turner
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Sand Creek Massacre
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
George A. Custer
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
“Ghost Dance”
Wounded Knee
Dawes Severalty Act
Assimilation
Helen Hunt Jackson
Buffalo Bill
Unit 6 Review Guide
Essay Questions
John Brown’s raid on the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, involved only a handful
of abolitionists, freed no slaves, and was over in two days. Although many northerners condemned the raid,
by 1863 John Brown had become a hero and a martyr in the north. To what extent, and in what ways, did the
views about John Brown expressed in the documents illustrate changing north-south relations between 1859
and 1863?
“By the 1850s the Constitution, originally framed as an instrument of national unity, had become a source of
sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it had created.” Using the
documents and your knowledge of the period, assess the validity of this statement.
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the
white and black races.” How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862
Emancipation Proclamation?
To What extent was President-elect Lincoln responsible for the defeat of the Crittenden Proposal on the
territorial expansion of slavery?
How do you account for the failure of Reconstruction (1865-1877) to bring social and economic equality of
opportunity to the former slaves?
In what way, and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount
to a revolution?