Hist 1301
N. A. Biehler
STUDY GUIDE
Unit 4 Learning Objectives
Chapter 13 – The Slave South, 1820-1860
1.
Discuss economic conditions in the upper South. Be able to explain what
circumstances influenced their agricultural changes and how they were tied
to slave economy in the lower South.
2.
Explain the circumstances that made the South dependent upon the North.
3.
Discuss the South's interest in education, with respect to white and black
southerners, and how that impacted on their entire way of life in the South.
4.
Describe the three main groups of white people in the South's social
structure, what percentages they were of the total southern population and
how each group felt about the practice of slavery.
5.
Examine the ways slaves showed resistance to their white slavemasters.
6.
Analyze Turner's Rebellion and its impact on both white and black
southerners.
7.
Discuss the variety of justifications for slavery that were developed by
southern planters and politicians.
8.
Describe African-American religion, how it affected blacks both free and
slave, and how its songs and music gave identity to the black cause.
CHAPTER 14 – The House Divided, 1846-1861
1.
Discuss the political conflicts created by the Mexican cession with respect to
the spread of slavery from both the northern and southern points of view.
2.
Know the solutions provided by Henry Clay in the Compromise of 1850.
3.
Analyze the views of the various political parties toward the spread of
slavery in the 1850s, particularly with respect to any new parties that were
created.
4.
Contrast the impact of the Wilmot Proviso, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and John
Brown's Raid as totally independent events that affected southern attitudes
toward northerners.
5.
Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the resulting effects of "Bleeding
Kansas."
6.
How did the Dred Scott decision support the Constitution with respect to its
stand on slavery, and how was it received by Northerners and Southerners?
7.
Discuss the positions of the two candidates in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
and analyze the importance of the debates.
8.
Describe the circumstances and results surrounding the Election of 1860.
9.
Contrast the various historical interpretations that have been advanced to
explain the reasons for the coming of the Civil War.
CHAPTER 15 – The Crucible of War, 1861-1865
1.
Explain why Lincoln was so effective as the Union's wartime leader.
2.
Trace the events leading to southern secession and the formation of the
Confederacy.
3.
Analyze the northern advantages and disadvantages at the beginning of the
Civil War.
4.
Analyze the southern advantages and disadvantages at the beginning of the
Civil War.
5.
Define "King Cotton diplomacy" and explain why it failed.
6.
Trace and explain Lincoln's gradual movement toward the emancipation of
the slaves.
7.
Discuss the Civil War from the Union perspective, including Lincoln's
"general" problem, the concept of "total war," the tragedy at Gettysburg and
Sherman's march to the sea.
8.
Explore the Confederate perspective of the Civil War, including the strategy
of Robert E. Lee and the South's fleeting victories.
9.
Analyze the role of blacks in the Civil War.
CHAPTER 16 – Reconstruction, 1863-1877
1.
Compare and contrast the presidential and congressional wartime
reconstruction programs.
2.
Analyze Andrew Johnson's performance as president and trace his loss of
support in Congress. Explain the impeachment of Johnson.
3.
Summarize the goals of Radical Reconstruction and evaluate the success of
those goals.
4.
Describe the social and economic changes in the South during
Reconstruction.
5.
Evaluate the achievements and explain the ultimate failure of the southern
Republican governments.
6.
Discuss the terms and results of the "Compromise of 1877."
7.
Discuss the scandals of the Grant administration.
8.
Describe the social and political effects of the "Redeemer" governments in
the New South. Which groups of people lost the most, which gained? How
were certain groups disenfranchised?
9.
Evaluate the progress made by northern/southern blacks at this stage in
history, in light of the Black Codes, threat of the Ku Klux Klan and Plessy v.
Ferguson.