Unit 3U.S. History - Manifest Destiny through Reconstruction

STUDY GUIDE

I Have you read Chapters 9 -11?

Have you read your reading selections by John Brown, Black Hawk, James K. Polk, and about the Oregon Trail.

II Do you know the significance of each of the following?

Manifest Destinycarpetbaggerspocket vetocopperheadsAlamoBattle of Jacinto

LoneStarRepublicSanta Fe Trailblack codesMormonsironcladsgreenbacks

Jim Crow LawsblockadeRio GrandeRiverliteracy testWilmot Provisograft

scalawags Compromise of 1850blockade runnersharecropperBleeding Kansaspoll tax

Fugitive Slave LawUncle Tom's CabinKansas-Nebraska ActPopular SovereigntyKu Klux KlanDred Scott v. Sanford

Lincoln-DouglasOregon TrailLand GrantTexas RevolutionannexBearFlagRepublic

NativismKnow-Nothing PartyFree-Soil PartyRepublican PartyFreeport DoctrineFreedman’s Bureau

Plessy v. FergusonAnaconda Planhabeas corpusmartial lawconscriptionReconstruction

RedemptionPopular sovereigntyFree-Soil PartyForty NinersGadsden Purchase

InsurrectionTrent Affairattritionamnestycrop liendebt peonage

III Do you know the significance of each of the following people?

Sam HoustonSteve AustinGen. Santa AnnaJames K. PolkDaniel WebsterHenry Clay

Stephen DouglasUlysses S. GrantRobert E. LeeDorothea DixClara BartonGeorge Meade

William T. ShermanP.G.T. BeauregardStonewall JacksonThaddeus StevensHiram RevelsJoseph Hooker

Rutherford B. HayesAbraham LincolnJefferson DavisAndrew JohnsonJohn Wilkes BoothGeorge McClellan

Matthew BradyJ.E.B. StuartCharles SumnerSamuel TildenLewis CassErwin McDowell

Henry WirzConscience WhigCotton WhigHarriet TubmanDred Scott John Brown

David FarragutHorace GreeleyElizabeth BlackwellAmbrose Burnside

IV Can you answer the following questions?

  • What was Manifest Destiny? What were the causes? What were the results of Manifest Destiny?
  • Who were the people who traveled West? What were the trails and methods used to settle the West?
  • What were the short- and long-term causes of the Civil War? And what events of the 1850s (Decade of Crisis) led to the Civil War?
  • What was the locations, people involved and the action of the major battles of the Civil War?
  • What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and the South and how did they eventually help decide the outcome of the war?
  • What was the Anaconda Plan? Explain each part and how it was implemented (put into action).
  • What actions led to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?
  • What were the provisions of Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan? Of Johnson’s? of Congress’?
  • What three conditions helped change Lincoln’s mind about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation thus changing the focus of the war?
  • What were the major steps of Radical Reconstruction?
  • What were the reasons for the end of Radical Reconstruction?
  • What were the circumstances surrounding the election of 1876? Explain how this election was a ‘corrupt bargain’ too.
  • What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?