APUSH – Unit 6
Key Terms & Questions
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Date:
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Directions: While reading the subsequent chapter in Out of Many, ID each Key Term.
Next, answer the Review Questions. Answers may be handwritten or typed.
Chapter 16:
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grand Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Copperheads
Legal Tender Act
National Bank Act
Morrill Tariff Act
Peninsular campaign
Review Questions:
1. What advantages did the North possess at the outset of the Civil War?
2. How did the power of the federal government expand as the war progressed?
3. What successes did the South enjoy in the early years of the war and how were
they achieved?
4. What prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
5. What sparked the New York City draft riots of 1863?
6. How did Grand and Sherman turn the tide of the war?
Chapter 17:
Field Order 15
Radical Republicans
Freedman’s Bureau
Black codes
Congressional Reconstruction
Fifteenth Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
Sharecropping
Union League
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act
Reconstruction Act
Review Questions:
1. What was Lincoln’s vision of reconstruction in the South?
2. What were the most important changes in the lives of African Americans in the
years immediately following the war?
3. What major groups made up the southern Republicans?
4. What perpetuated the electoral crisis of 1876?
Chapter 18:
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Lynching
Dawes Severalty Act
Caminetti Act
Edmunds Act
Edmunds-Tucker Act
Homestead Act of 1862
National Reclamation Act
Omaha Act of 1882
Review Questions:
1. How did the slaughter of the buffalo affect the Plains Indians?
2. How did the mining industry develop in the United States?
3. What was life like for a cowboy in the late nineteenth century?
4. Who took advantage of the Homestead Act?
5. How did agribusiness differ from more traditional forms of farming?
6. What place did the West hold in the national imagination?
7. What kind of Indian society did reformers envision?