Topic Civil War & Reconstruction Date 23 MARCH 2015
A Nation Divided
1.
Be able to identify and describe how the nation dealt with the issue of slavery up to the Civil War [4.1] a.
Northwest Ordinance (1787) b.
Constitutional Convention (1787) c.
Missouri Compromise (1820) d.
Wilmot Proviso (1847) e.
Compromise of 1850 / Fugitive Slave Act f.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
2.
What was the Brooks-Sumner Incident , what caused it, and what impact did it have on the country? [4.2]
3.
What was the Dred Scott decision and what impact did it have on the country? [4.2]
4.
What were the positions argued by Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Senate race and what impact did the election have on the country? [4.2]
5.
What impact did John Brown’s raid on the Harper’s Ferry arsenal have on the country? [4.2]
6.
What impact did the Presidential Election of 1860 have on the Country? [4.2]
7.
How did Lincoln approach the Southern secession issue in his First Inaugural Address ? [4.3]
8.
How and why did Tennessee secede ? What role did Geography play? [4.3]
9.
What were some of the advantages the North had going into the war? [4.3]
10.
What was the Union war plan going into the war? [4.3]
11.
What were the advantages of the Confederacy going into the war? [4.3]
12.
What was the war plan of the Confederacy going into the war? [4.3]
13.
What impact did the First Battle of Bull Run have on the war? [4.3]
14.
What is the significance of the battles of Ft Henry and Ft Donelson ? [4.4]
15.
What is the significance of the battle of Shiloh and Farragut’s Gulf Campaign ? [4.4]
16.
What is the significance of the battle of Antietam?
[4.4]
17.
What is the significance of the battle of Fredericksburg?
[4.4]
18.
What is the significance of the battle of Stones River?
[4.4]
19.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation and what impact did it have on the Civil War? [4.5]
20.
What was the significance of the Battle of Chancellorsville?
[4.5]
21.
What was the significance of the Battle of Vicksburg?
[4.5]
22.
What was the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg?
[4.5]
23.
What was the significance of the Gettysburg Address?
[4.5]
24.
What was the significance of the Battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain ? [4.6]

Manifest Destiny
25.
What was the significance of the Battles of Franklin and Nashville ? [4.6]
26.
What role did African American soldiers play in the conduct of the war? Identify two important units. [4.6]
27.
What was the significance and impact of Sherman’s “March to the Sea?” [4.6]
28.
What was the significance and impact of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address ? [4.7]
29.
What was the significance of Appomattox Court House ? [4.7]
30.
When, where, and by whom was Lincoln assassinated ? [4.7]
31.
What impact did Lincoln’s assassination have both the North and the South? [4.7]
32.
What was the intent of Reconstruction and what were the two competing plans ? [4.8]
33.
What were some of the challenges and hardships encountered by the newly freed slaves in the South? [4.8]
34.
What were some of the challenges faced by Tennessee during Reconstruction? [4.8]
35.
What was the Ku Klux Klan , how did it operate and what was its goal? [4.9]
36.
What impact would discrimination, violence, and lack of economic opportunity have on African Americans living in the South? [4.9]
37.
How and why did Reconstruction end?
[4.9]
38.
What were some the effects of the end of Reconstruction?
[4.9]
39.
Jefferson Davis
40.
Ulysses S Grant
41.
William Tecumseh Sherman
42.
Robert E. Lee
43.
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
44.
Andrew Johnson
45.
Pap Singleton
46.
David Farragut
47.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
48.
William Brownlow
49.
Stephen A Douglas
50.
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