Civil War and Reconstruction
Vocabulary
Chapter 13: Immigration,
Expansion, and Sectional
Conflict, 1840-1848
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John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Winfield Scott
Wilmot Proviso
Martin Van Buren and the Free
Soil party
Chapter 14: From Compromise
to Secession, 1850-1861
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John Brown's raid on Harpers
Ferry
William H. Seward
popular (squatter) sovereignty
Daniel Webster
The Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle
Tom's Cabin
American (or Know-Nothing)
party
Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
free soil and free labor
Gadsden Purchase
"Bleeding Kansas"
Charles Sumner and Preston
Brooks
John C. Frémont
James Buchanan
Roger B. Taney and Dred Scott
v. Sandford
Lincoln-Douglas debates and
Douglas's Freeport Doctrine
19. John C. Breckenridge
20. John Bell and the Constitutional
Union party
21. Jefferson Davis and the
Confederate States of America
22. Crittenden compromise
23. Fort Sumter
20. New York City draft riot
21. National Union party and
Andrew Johnson
22. Appomattox Courthouse
Chapter 16: The Crises of
Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Chapter 15: Crucible of Freedom:
Civil War, 1861-1865
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Legal Tender Act and
greenbacks
National Bank Act, 1863, and
national bank notes
Winfield Scott and the
Anaconda plan
first and second battles of Bull
Run (First and Second
Manassas)
George B. McClellan
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
ironclads and the battle of the
Merrimac and the Monitor
cotton diplomacy
First and Second Confiscation
Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
Freedmen's Bureau
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Homestead Act, 1862
Copperheads
Civil War and Reconstruction Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following was not a part of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
(A) abolishment of slavery
(B) ratification of the 13th Amendment
(C) division of the South into military districts
(D) guaranteed Black suffrage.
2. The Dred Scott decision eliminated all of the following except:
(A) the Compromise of 1850
(B) the inviolability of private property
(C) popular sovereignty
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Charles Sumner, Thaddeus
Stevens, and the Radical
Republicans
Lincoln's 10 percent plan versus
Wade-Davis bill
Thirteenth Amendment
black codes
Freedmen's Bureau
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Tenure of Office Act
Fifteenth Amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony
carpetbaggers and scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Civil Rights Act of 1875
sharecropping and crop-liens
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
Liberal Republicans and Horace
Greeley
“Southern Redemption”
"Exodus" movement
Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel J.
Tilden, and the Compromise of
1877
(D) citizenship rights for African Americans
3. The Radical Republicans plan for reconstruction
(A) was merely harsh and vindictive
(B) succeeded in insuring the civil rights of all Americans
(C) attempted to commit the U S to the principle of racial equality
(D) outlawed carpetbaggers and scalawags.
4. Reconstruction had the effect of
(A) rebuilding the physical destruction of the Civil War
(B) giving the Blacks political and social equality in Southern society
(C) eliminating the Southern aristocracy from the political power structure
(D) finally bringing industrialization and a diversified economy to the South.
5. Northern war aims changed from preserving the Union to abolishing slavery because
(A) slaves would be less likely to help the South during the war
(B) the Radicals insisted that the slaves be free
(C) Lincoln could use manumission as a weapon
(D) all of the above.
6. The first state to secede was
(A) South Carolina
(B) Georgia
(C) Virginia
(D) Kentucky.
7. Which of the following absorbed the most energy and attention in America 1850-1860?
(A) sectional controversies
(B) territorial expansion
(C) regulation of business
(D) maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine.
8. Black Americans became citizens of the United States as a result of the
(A) 14th Amendment
(B) 15th Amendment
(C) 13th Amendment
(D) Emancipation Proclamation.
9. The Wade-Davis Bill required that the Confederate debt be
(A) paid by the South
(B) paid by the Union
(C) repudiated
(D) paid from tariff revenue.
10. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves in
(A) the North
(B) the South
(C) states still at war with the Union
(D) the border states.
11. The Homestead Act (1862) provided settlers with
(A) free western land if they would agree to live on it for five years
(B) a grant of land for the price of $1 per acre
(C) the right to occupy farmland held by Native Americans
(D) rights to farm captured Confederate land.
12. The Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1898) gave legal support to
(A) “Grandfather clauses
(B) segregation
(C) integration
(D) a poll tax.
13. Which of the following did not place a limit on slavery in the United States?
(A) Missouri Compromise (1820)
(B) Northwest Ordinance (1787)
(C) Constitution (1789)
(D) Compromise of 1850
14. The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to restrict the civil rights of
(A) Chinese and Japanese aliens
(B) Mexican immigrants
(C) African Americans
(D) Indians.
FRQ
1. Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the
context of TWO of the following:
a. Missouri Compromise
b. Mexican War
c. Compromise of 1850
d. Kansas – Nebraska Act
2. Analyze the social, political, and economic forces of the 1840s and early 1850s that led to the
emergence of the Republican Party.
3. How do you account for the failure of Reconstruction (1865 – 1877) to bring social and economic
equality of opportunity to the former slaves?
4. Discuss the political, economic, and social reforms introduced in the South between 1864 and 1877.
To what extent did these reforms survive the Compromise of 1877?