VA & U.S. History
Due Date – Friday, 10-16-15
Unit 6: Sectionalism & The Civil War (Chapters 8 & 9)
Standards of Learning: VUS.6e & .7
This sheet is your study guide and homework for Unit 6. Studying the terms & questions below,
as well as, the ability to explain the following concepts are necessary to do well on the Unit 6
Test. Remember for each term and concept to cover the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, and
why) along with the 1 H (how) when studying and answering. Identify/define the following terms
& concepts and answer the homework questions on a separate sheet of paper and hand in the on
the 16th. A completed study guide/home work assignment is worth 5 points on the Unit 6 Test.
Key people, places and things to know & define for this unit:
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Van Buren
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Bleeding Kansas
Gadsden Purchase
Stonewall Jackson
George B. McClellan
John Wilkes Booth
popular sovereignty
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Kansas-Nebraska & Fugitive Slave Acts
Appomattox Courthouse
March to the Sea
Underground Railroad
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Compromise of 1850
transcontinental railroad
Lecompton constitution
54th Massachusetts regiment
Emancipation Proclamation
“Sherman neckties”
13th Amendment
Know-Nothings
Republican Party
Freeport Doctrine
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Election of 1860
Anaconda Plan
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
U. S. Sanitary Com.
blockade runners
Elizabeth Blackwell
referendum
martial law
greenbacks
conscription
habeas corpus
attrition
bounty
secession
Antietam
hardtack
POWs
siege
mandate
Dred Scott
John Brown
Fort Sumter
Ulysses S. Grant
Copperheads
Clara Barton
Pickett’s Charge
foraging
Union generals
Gettysburg
insurrection
pillaged
CW battles
Key Concepts:
1. As simply as humanly possible, explain the Compromise of 1850. What was it
designed to do? How did it add to the events leading up to the Civil War?
2. Explain why the Civil War happened? Make sure to include several precipitating
factors, linking them to, or explaining them as, the causes of the war.
3. Examine issues for both sides during the war. Compare and contrast their strengths
and weaknesses (specific examples & a Venn diagram would help your response).
4. What parts did the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment play in the
Civil War? Make sure to consider how things would have looked without them.
Home Work:
Chapters 8 & 9 Assessments, pages 309-311 & pages 351-353 (41 Questions Total)