Basic US History
Unit 5 – The Civil War
Content Quiz Study List
You should be able to identify/define/explain the importance of each of the following:
1808 slave importation
Abraham Lincoln
Bleeding Kansas
border states
Compromise of 1850
Confederate States of America
Dred Scott
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
Emancipation Proclamation
Frederick Douglass
Fugitive Slave Act
Harpers Ferry
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)
Missouri Compromise
Northern & Southern advantages and disadvantages
popular sovereignty
Presidential election of 1860
secession of SC
Stephen Douglas
Underground Railroad