APUSH: Unit 4 - Civil War Review Sheet
1. What were the assumptions behind the idea of Manifest Destiny?
2. What caused the Aroostook War?
3. How did the initial migration of American settlers to Texas happen?
4. What were the requirements of the Mexican government regarding U.S. settlers to Texas?
5. What were the motives of American settlers to the far west in the 1840s?
6. How difficult was the westward journey to the West Coast in the 1840s?
7. What were the main issues in James K. Polk’s 1844 presidential campaign?
8. When did the United States annex Texas?
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9. What did 54 40 or Fight mean?
10. What was the strongest motive the United States had for war with Mexico? (What did we want from them?)
11. How did the U.S. government precipitate the crisis with Mexico?
12. What were the details of the Wilmot Proviso?
13. How and why did Thoreau protest the Mexican War?
14. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
15. For Congress, what was the most divisive and controversial aspect of slavery during the first half of the
nineteenth century?
16. Why did the slavery question become a major political issue in the 1840s and 1850s?
17. What were the common forms of resistance on the part of black slaves prior to the Civil War?
18. The majority of white southerners before the Civil War owned how many slaves?
19. What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
20. What were the effects of the Compromise of 1850?
21. What was the principle of “popular sovereignty?”
22. What was the Northern response to the Fugitive Slave Act?
23. Why was the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 so abhorrent to the North?
24. How and why did congressional politics deteriorate after 1850?
25. What was the sequence of events that occurred between 1850 and 1860 that led to the Civil War?
26. Who wrote and what event motivated their writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
27. Why did Stephen Douglas introduce the Kansas-Nebraska bill?
28. What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
29. How did the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act change party politics?
30. What people, events, and ideas were associated with the proslavery and freesoiler elements in Kansas?
31. Why did popular sovereignty fail in Kansas?
32. What was the significance of the “Crime against Kansas” speech and the resulting caning of Charles
Sumner by Preston Brooks?
33. What was the ruling of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
34. What arguments were made by Stephen Douglas In his famous Freeport Doctrine during his debate with
Abraham Lincoln?
35. What did Lincoln mean when he said the following? “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe
this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the union to be
dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”
36. What were the effects of John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, his trial and execution
on the country?
37. What were the northern and southern reactions to the Dred Scott Decision and John Brown’s raid on
Harper’s Ferry?
38. What happened during the election of 1860?
39. What were the events during and results of the Presidential election of 1860?
40. What was Abraham Lincoln’s stated purpose in going to war against the south?
41. What were the northern and southern advantages and disadvantages during the Civil War?
42. Why were the casualty rates so high throughout the Civil War?
43. What did Lincoln hope to accomplish in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?
44. What 2 major events occurred on July 4, 1863 and why were they turning points in the war?
45. What impact did the Confederate war effort have on the south and what problems did the Confederacy face
during the Civil War?
46. What was the significance of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack?
47. Who was Matthew Brady?
48. What were the contributions African-Americans made during the Civil War?
49. What changes occurred to the nation during or as a result of the Civil War?
50. What Civil War victory guaranteed Lincoln’s reelection in 1864?
51. What were the southern responses to Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
52. What were the provisions of and effects of the Wade-Davis Bill?
53. What requirements were there for the states of the former Confederacy to regain admission to the Union?
54. What were the differences between the reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and the Radical
Republicans?
55. Who were the leaders of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate?
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56. What did the 13 , 14 , and 15 amendments say and do?
57. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
58. Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?
59. What were the failures of the Reconstruction governments in the south?
60. What was the intention of the Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil war?
61. Why didn’t African-Americans achieve their full rights guaranteed by Constitutional Amendment?
Semester Review:
Essential Chronology: Part 1: Match the Era with its time frame.
_________________________1492-1600
Antebellum Period
_________________________1607-1763
Federalist Era
_________________________1763-1789
Civil War
_________________________1789-1800
Colonial Period
_________________________1800-1824
Era of Good Feelings
_________________________1815-1824
Jacksonian Democracy
_________________________1828-1848
Age of Exploration
_________________________1793-1860
Jeffersonian Democracy
_________________________1860-1865
Reconstruction
_________________________1865-1877
Revolutionary Period
Write down a date (year) when the following occurred:
___________Alien & Sedition Acts
___________Boston Tea Party
___________Constitutional Convention Began
___________Declaration of Independence
___________French & Indian War Began
___________Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
___________Indian Removal Act
___________Kansas-Nebraska Act
___________Eli Whitney Invented the Cotton Gin
___________Louisiana Purchase
___________Emancipation Proclamation
___________Maryland Toleration Act
___________Missouri Compromise
___________Erie Canal was Opened
___________First Africans brought to Jamestown
___________Founding of Massachusetts Colony
___________Pontiac’s Rebellion
___________Stamp Act
Semester Review Condensed
Term List:
Adams, John
Adams, Sam
Albany Plan
Alien & Sedition Acts
American System
Antietam
Arnold, Benedict
Articles of Confederation
Austin, Stephen
Bacon’s Rebellion
Battle of Saratoga
Biddle, Nicholas
Burr, Aaron
Calhoun, John C.
Catlin, George
Clay, Henry
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
Committees of
Correspondence
Common Sense
Compromise of 1833
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Connecticut Compromise
Copperheads
Davis, Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Dickenson, John
Dix, Dorothea
Douglas, Stephan
Douglass, Frederick
Dred Scott Decision
Edwards, Jonathan
Election of 1800
Election of 1824
Election of 1860
Emancipation Proclamation
Embargo Act
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Erie Canal
Federalists Papers
Fifteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Franklin, Benjamin
French & Indian War
Fulton, Robert
Gettysburg
Grant, Ulysses S.
Great Awakening
Hamilton, Alexander
Hancock, John
Harper’s Ferry
Hartford Convention
Headright system
Homestead Act
House of Burgesses
Hutchinson, Anne
Impressment
Jackson, Andrew
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson, Andrew
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions
Land Ordinance of 1785
Leisler’s Rebellion
Lewis and Clark
Louisiana Purchase
Lowell, Massachusetts
Madison, James
Manifest Destiny
Mann, Horace
Marbury v. Madison
Marshall, John
Mercantilism
Mexican War
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Morse, Samuel
Navigation Acts
Northwest Ordinance
Oglethorpe, James
Otis, James
Paine, Thomas
Penn, William
Pickney’s Treaty
Polk, James
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Popular sovereignty
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Quebec Act
Radical Republicans
Romanticism
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Second Continental
Congress
Seneca Falls
Shay’s Rebellion
Specie Circular
Spoils System
Stamp Act
Stevens, Thaddeus
Sumner, Charles
Tea Act
Tecumseh
Thirteenth Amendment
Thoreau, Henry David
Townshend Acts
Trail of Tears
Transcendentalism
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Vicksburg
War of 1812
Webster, Daniel
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Whigs
Whiskey Rebellion
Whitney, Eli
Williams, Roger
Winthrop, John
Worchester v. Georgia
Writs of Assistance
XYZ Affair
Young, Brigham
Zenger, John Peter
Map of the United States : Label
Appalachian Mountains
Boston, Ma.
California
Charleston, S.C.
Chesapeake Bay
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hudson River
Independence, Mo.
Kansas
Louisiana Purchase
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Middle Colonies
Mississippi River
Missouri
Missouri River
New England
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Orleans
New York
New York City
North Carolina
Ohio
Ohio River
Oregon Territory
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Rocky Mountains
South Carolina
Southern Colonies
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington, D.C.