Unit 5 Test Review **** YOU MAY EARN POINTS FOR COMPLETING THIS******* BUT you must print
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-Why does Lincoln delay in issuing the EP? (making the war about slavery)
- What does Lincoln, after he decides to issue an EP, wait for to occur so that he can issue the EP?
- Why do the British, from an economic/trade perspective, not recognize the Confederacy?
- What group/class in England opposes British help to the Confederacy?
- What industry in Britain aided the CSA…ex: Alabama?
- At the outset of the war AL’s primary goal of “saving the Union only” was strongly influenced by what
geographic region still in the USA?
- Which region of the USA had the majority of the population at the outset of the war?
- Was a “military tradition” a strength of the South at the outset of the war?
- Who was the greatest cartoonist of this age?
- What was the cause of so much violence that occurs in the South during Military Reconstruction period
from 1867 -1877?
- What Party had the majority of Congress during reconstruction and what was the group called that was
the majority of that group?
-Where exactly does the EP free slaves in Jan. 1st, 1863?
- What is the cause of the end of the “Radical” Governments that ruled the Southern States, actions of
Southerners?
- During Radical Military Reconstruction…what evidence shows that Blacks participated fully and used
their complete civil and political rights during this period?
- The end of Reconstruction can be partially explained by the tiring of the North to continue the fight to
protect black rights….What evidence suggests this?
-Which Battle during the Civil War…splits the Confederacy in ½ and gives the Union control of the
Mississippi River?
-What was Sherman’s action’s in Georgia called that exemplified a “total war” designed to destroy the
South’s environment and infrastructure?
- In committing to a strategy of Total War to end the Civil War…it was part of a Continuity… that would
essentially continue over how WE should interpret the meaning of what document?
- Was Total War a strategy practiced by the Union from the outset of the war?
- Which political party was outraged by the “Black Codes” passed in all of the Southern States after the
Civil War under Johnson’s Presidency?
- Were the “Black Codes” permanent or temporary?
- What decision of AL causes the South to bombard Ft. Sumter in April 1861 and start the Civil War?
- In order to keep some of the border states in the Union…Lincoln declares the military in charge of all
aspects of government in some of these states…what is this called?
- What was the most significant “Assumed” asset for the South at the outset of the civil war? [they
expected it, it did not happen, and they lost]
- Name the primary reason why a loss for the Union at Bull Run was actually better for the Union?
- What was the Union strategy after the loss of the peninsula campaign? (6)
- What was discovered wrapped around 3 cigars that helped the Union to stop the Lee’s army at the battle
of Antietam?
- Name the two (2) major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil in 1862 & 1863?
-This Union Victory (draw?) allowed AL to announce the preliminary EP?
-The Gettysburg loss does what to the Southern hope of victory?
- What are the 4 major effects of the Union Victory at Vicksburg?
- The “most dangerous” group in the North to the Union Cause was what? (not copperheads)
- What victory by the Union army was the most significant to propelling AL to victory in the election of
1864?
- At the Conclusion of the Civil War many white Southerners still believed what?
- What word or two describes the way blacks experienced freedom at the conclusion of Civil War?
- In what area were the greatest accomplishments of the Freedom Bureau?
- What was the primary goal of AL’s 10% plan concerning the Southern governments readmission to the
Union?
- What was the one (1) main purpose of the “Black Codes?”
- To many in the North (radicals esp.) the Black Codes made them ask what question about the War’s
result?
- 14th Amendment guarantees what 1st ….by overturning the Dred Scott Case, 1857?
- What action , by Pres. Hayes, agreed upon in the Compromise of 1877 ends reconstruction in the South
forever?
- Why were women upset with the 14th and 15th amendments?
-How does AJ violate the Tenure of Office Act that leads to his impeachment?
- The GAG RULE (1836) was adopted by the US Congress to do what?
- Which are the last 4 states to secede from the USA and join the CSA after AL’s call for 75,000 volunteers?
- The Crittenden Compromise (1860-1)…was it supported or opposed by a majority of Southern
legislatures?
- Why was the Civil War considered the 1st “modern war?” (several reasons)
- “King Cotton Diplomacy?”
- The “Trent Affair?”
- Vicksburg’s importance to the Union’s Victory-effects (several)?
- What was the primary reason AL was hesitant to act on emancipation?
- Of the North’s advantages at the beginning of the Civil War was a dominant Foreign Trade one of them?
- What invention had the most important influence on the development of Slavery in America?
-The pamphlet, “Civil Disobedience,” influence what two (2) future leaders?
-“Cult of Domesticity?”
- 1860 Republican Party Platform’s statement about slavery?
-“Transcendentalists?”
- In the Reconstruction period do Freedmen in the Radical Southern legislatures pass much needed
reform?
- What was created by Congress to determine the winner of the 1876 Presidential Election?
- What techniques do Southern Redeemers use to disqualify Black voters and regain control politically of
the South AFTER the end of Reconstruction? (several)
- What do newly freed slaves do immediately following gaining their freedom? (several)
- Do ALL BLACKS, Men and Women, get to vote during Reconstruction?
- For whom effectively does the 15th Amendment guarantee the right to vote, although it does not say this
explicitly?
- Who was the 1st Graduate, Female, of a US medical college in US History and later runs the US Sanitary
Commission during the Civil War?