Civil War Review Sheet

Period 5: 1844-1877

Content terms:
expansionism
migration/immigration
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
ethnic communities
nativism
Civil War
sectionalism
free labor manufacturing
abolitionists
states' rights
nullification
secession
Election of 1860
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
free soil platform
Reconstruction
Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
sharecropping system
radical v. moderate Republicans
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
segregation / Vocabulary:
infrastructure
amendment
embolden

Cause of the War

Popular Sovereignty

Free Soil Party, politicians, and their Ideas

Underground Railroad

The terms of the Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act

The political views and views on slavery of Stephen A Douglas

KansasNebraska Act

Know Nothing Party / Nativists

Mason Dixon Line

Prominent Abolitionists and their arguments

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its effects on North and South

Bleeding Kansas

Northerner and Southern response to John Brown’s Trial

Dred Scott Case Decision and the impact

Economic Effects of Panic of 1857

Major Arguments of Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Significance of Harpers Ferry Raid

Free Soilers VS. Abolitionists

Lincoln’s “A House Divided” Speech

Divisions within the Democrats

Coalition of the New Republican Party

Campaigns / Election of 1860

Failure of Crittenden Compromise

Jefferson Davis / Alexander H. Stephens

Reasons for South Carolina Secession

Formation of Confederacy

Civil War 1861-1865

Significance of FortSumter

Border States

Pro Lincoln and Anti Lincoln arguments for Suspension of Habeas Corpus

Northern Advantages / Disadvantages going into war

Southern Advantages / Disadvantages going into war

George McClellan’s conflict with Lincoln

Impact of Stonewall Jackson / What did he represent about the Southern culture?

Strategy of Robert Lee VS.Ulysses Grant

Immigrant participation

Cotton Production during war

England and France’s role

NY Draft Riots

Economics in North and South

Significance of First Bull Run

Significance of Antietam

Emancipation Proclamation

Massachusetts 54th Regiment

Significance of Gettysburg

William T Sherman

Georgia Campaign

Election of 1864

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s Assassination

AppomattoxCourthouse

Reconstruction

Political Goals

Social / Cultural Goals

Economic Goal

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Freedmen Bureau

Black Codes

Jim Crow laws

Voting Restrictions

Andrew Johnson

Copperheads

Carpetbaggers

10 percent plan

Sharecroppers

40 acres and a mule

Morrill Tariff

Pacific Railroad Act

Radical Republicans

Thaddeus Stevens

Charles Sumner

African American participation in government

KKK

Johnson Impeachment

Corruption in Grant Administration

End of Reconstruction