Lecture Exam Five Review
reasons for Manifest Destiny
Dark side of Manifest Destiny
Why support Manifest Destiny?
Manifest Destiny, California gold rush
California gold rush benefitted who the most?
Polk’s expectation during Mexican-American War
Anti-war movement
Mexican-American War as practice for Civil War
Political conditions in Mexico
Mexican-American War and Manifest Destiny
3 advantages of holding the position of Mammy
number of slaveholders in the South
Vast majority of women in the South lived on
Plantation mistress, ornament
Southern women’s access to education, literacy rate
Southern birthrate v. Northern birthrate, infant mortality rate
2 reasons small farmers dependent on plantation aristocracy
Why did slavery undergo changes and reforms in the South during the Civil War?
North and South as 2 different cultures
Expansion of slavery, South as a minority
Main issues of 1850s sectional debates[2]
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty
incidents/events that increased Southern fears of Northern hostility
Economic point of view, is Civil War a good idea?
Location of largest US cities
Northern Advantages in Civil War
Southern challenges during Civil War
Charleston, SC
US Constitution, Confederate Constitution
King Cotton diplomacy
Lincoln’s election as President, signal to Southerners
Lincoln on slavery: as an individual, as a Republican, as President
Committee on the Conduct of War’s purpose, targeted
Writ of habeas corpus
Jefferson Davis
U. S. Grant, William Sherman
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
Declared as contraband of War, Confiscation Act, Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation freed
Black Civil War Soldiers, Confederate Army, Union Army
3 benefits for Blacks serving as Union soldiers
Elmira Prison, Andersonville
Wealthy Northerners and Southerners, military service, substitutes
3 examples of poor living conditions in POW prisons
Libby Prison, Libby War Museum
Sultana
3 examples of women’s roles during the Civil War
Nurses, volunteers, paid
3 ways women were able to serve as men during Civil War
Salisbury NC Bread Riot
Richmond Bread Riot
3 examples of black codes
South: wage labor, tenancy/share cropping
Targets of KKK
Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Boothe
Lincoln Reconstruction Plan
2 reasons Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson as VP
Andrew Johnson, Secr. Of War Stanton, Tenure of Office Act
Andrew Johnson, post impeachment trial
3 ways Pres. Grant helped the freed slaves
13th Amendment
14th amendment
15th Amendment
15th Amendment and feminists
Black codes
Freedmen’s Bureau
Did Reconstruction change the South in the short term? Long term?
Who benefitted most from Reconstruction? The least?