unit 5B – civil war and reconstruction
exam preparation assignment
Directions: This assignment is offered as a way to prepare for the unit 7 exam.
Please complete each of the following steps.
Reviewing the Terms: Highlight the following based on Failures, Successes, and
Laws and Acts.
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(or Sherman Act) of 1867
“Billy Yank”
“conquered provinces”
“Johnny Reb”
“runaway inflation”
“Seward’s Folly”
“swing around the circle”
10 percent plan
A.E. Burnside
Abraham Lincoln
African American church
membership
Alabama
Alexander Stephens
Amnesty Act of 1872
Andersonville
Andrew Johnson
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Benjamin Butler
Black Codes
border states
Bull Run (Manassas Junction)
carpetbaggers
Chancellorsville
Charles Sumner
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Civil War millionaires
Clara Barton
Clement L. Valladigham
Cold Harbor
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Copperheads
David Farragut
Doctrine of ultimate destination
or continuous voyage
Draft Riots
Edwin M. Stanton
Elizabeth Blackwell
Emancipation Proclamation
Ex parte Merryman
Ex parte Milligan
Exodusters
Fifteenth Amendment
Force Acts of 1870 and 1871
Fort Sumter
Fourteenth Amendment
Fredericksburg
Freedmen’s Bureau
George B. McClellan
George Meade
George Pickett
Gettysburg
Hiram Revels
Homestead Act
Horace Greeley
Jay Cooke
Jefferson Davis
Joe Hooker
John Wilkes Booth
Ku Klux Klan
Laird rams
March to the Sea
Maximilian
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Military Reconstruction Act
moderate/racial Republican
Monitor and Merrimack
Morrill Tariff Act
Napoleon III
National Banking Act
Oliver O. Howard
Omnibus Act of 1868
Peninsula Campaign
Radical Republicans
railroads during war
Redeemers
Robert E. Lee
Salmon P. Chase
scalawags
sharecropping
Shenandoah
Tenure of Office Act
Thaddeus Stevens
The Man Without a Country
Thirteenth Amendment
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Trent affair
Ulysses S. Grant
Union League
Vicksburg
Wade-Davis Bill
War/Peace Democrats
Wilderness Campaign
William T. Sherman
Women’s Loyal League
Big Ideas
1. Provide evidence in support of each of the following themes.
▪ The nature of the Union and the legal theory of secession
▪ The policy, strategy, and tactics of the Civil War
▪ The Constitution and the practical dilemma of Reconstruction
▪ The struggle for African American civil rights and equality
2. Compare the advantages / disadvantages that existed for the United States and the
Confederate States of America at the outset of the Civil War.
3. After Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis who were the 5 most important civilian figures
from this era.
4. Rank the 5 most significant governmental activities [include legal decisions, proclamations /
declarations, compromises, laws, amendments and tariffs].
5. Which Reconstruction plan would you have supported; Lincoln’s, Johnson’s, or the Radical
Republicans? You should know specific parts of their respective plans.
6. List the 5 defining moments of the Civil War. Provide evidence to justify your selections.
How did these events impact the outcome of the war?
7. Compare the myth of Reconstruction [the Lost Cause / the poor Southerners] to reality.