Unit 4 Study Guide
--election of 1840
--Webster-Ashburton
--Election of 1844
--annexation of Texas
--Mexican War: causes / start of . . . / Lincoln and . . . / Wilmot Proviso / treaty (provisions)
--Oregon / treaty
--Bear Flag Republic
--election of 1848
--gold rush / Cal. applies for statehood
--Compromise of 1850: issues / debates: ‘giants’ and their views / laws passed
--election of 1852
--Ostend Manifesto
--Kansas-Nebraska Act
--formation of Republican party
--‘Bleeding Kansas’: ‘ruffians’ / Lawrence, KS / Brown / Sumner
--Stowe
--election of 1856
--Kansas’s Lecompton constitution / Kansas enters free, 1861
--Dred Scott: issues / the decision
--Lincoln: “House Divided” speech / Lincoln – Douglas debates / views on slavery
--Brown / Harper’s Ferry
--election of 1860
--secession: by whom? why? / Confederacy
--Crittenden Compromise
--Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
--Fort Sumter / Lincoln calls troops / 4 more secede, 4 don’t / ‘border states’
--Union/Confed. advantages and disadvantages
--home front: raising revenue
--legislation passed by Congress during the Civil War
--draft riots
--turning-point battles
--Emancipation Proclamation
--Lincoln’s early and later purposes in waging war
--election of 1864
--Democrats: Peace, War, copperheads
--end of the war
--assassination
--Reconstruction: dates / plans – presidential and congressional/military/radical / Black Codes
--radical and moderate Republicans
--scalawags / carpetbaggers
--Johnson: vetoes / impeachment and trial
--amendments: 13th, 14th, 15th
--Civil Rights Act of 1866 / definition of citizenship / struck down Black Codes
--elections of 1868, 1872, and 1876: Compromise of 1877