Period Five: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Remember: Focus on CAUSE/EFFECT for your vocabulary-NOT just simple definitions.
Chapter 14: Vocabulary and Questions
The Break (ID, POL)Border states
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens
Second American Revolution
Economic Growth (WXT)
Greenbacks
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Free Land (PEO)
Homestead Act (1862)
The Fighting (POL, ENV, CUL)
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Antietam / Fredericksburg
Monitor vs. Merrimac
Winfield Scott
Anaconda Plan
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Shiloh
David Farragut
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Sherman’s March
Appomattox Courthouse
War & the Law (POL)
Executive power
Habeus corpus
Insurrection
Confiscation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment / Ex Parte Milligan
Draft riots
Wartime Politics (POL)
Copperheads
Election of 1864
War Diplomacy (WOR)
Trent Affair
CSS Alabama
Laird rams
The Final Act (CUL)
John Wilkes Booth
Social Impact (ID, CUL)
Segregated black troops
54th Massachusetts
Women in the workplace
Women in nursing
War’s long term effects
4 million freedmen
- “The Civil War was the result of irreconcilable differences between the North and West on one hand and the South on the other.” Assess the validity of this statement.
- In what ways did African Americans shape the course and consequences of the Civil War? Confine your answer to the years from 1861 to 1870.
- "The Civil War had started to preserve the Union, but for a majority in the North it had become a war to create a more perfect Union." Assess the validity of this statement.
Chapter 15: Vocabulary and Questions
Equality (ID, POL)Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th Amendment
Equal protection of the laws
Due process of law
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Corruption (WXT, POL)
Jay Gould
Credit Mobilier
William (Boss) Tweed
Politics (POL)
Spoilsmen
Patronage
Thomas Nast
Liberal Republicans
Horace Greeley / Panic of 1873
Greenbacks
Redeemers
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction (POL, CUL)
Presidential Reconstruction
Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction (1863)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Andrew Johnson
Freedman’s Bureau
Black Codes
Congressional Reconstruction / Radical Republicans
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stephens
Benjamin Wade
Reconstruction Acts (1867)
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Edwin Stanton
Impeachment
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram Revels
Sharecropping
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts (1870, 1871)
Amnesty Act of 1872
- It has been wryly observed that "the North won the Civil War, but the South won Reconstruction."Discuss this statement in terms of the Reconstruction and assess its validity.
- Identify and discuss the political, economic, and social reforms achieved by Republicangovernments in the South between 1866 and 1877.
- Compare and contrast the goals, strategies, and impact of the Reconstruction plansfor Lincoln, Johnson, and the Radical Republicans.