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Road to, Civil War and Reconstruction Exam Review Guide
1. What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on northerners when it was published in 1852?
2. A person who supports the ending of the system of slavery if referred to as?
3. Which act permitted Maine to enter as a free state, Missouri as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of 36, 30?
4. What happened to California as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
5. As part of the Compromise of 1850, which law regarding the return of escaped slaves enraged northerners?
6. The idea that the people in a territory should voteregarding the issue of slavery is called?
7. In what two territories was it determined that popular sovereignty would be used?
8. What did the Supreme Court rule about slaves in Dred Scott?
9. Which state was the first to secede from the union?
10. What was Lincoln’s position on slavery and its spread?
11. Who won the Election of 1860?
12. What was the immediate cause of the Civil War?
13. Where did the first shots of the Civil War occur?
14. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
15. What was the goal of the Republican Party?
16. What abolitionist wanted to start a slave rebellion and raided Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?
17. What is a border state? Name all 5 of them.
18. Name 2 advantages of the North.
19. Give 2 advantages of the South.
20. What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
21. What document says, “four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?
22. After this battle, the bloodiest day of fighting, Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation and England decided not to support the Confederacy.
23. Sherman’s march through Atlanta employed total war. What is total war?
24. Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
25. Which group of people wanted to punish the Confederacy during Reconstruction?
26. What law did Johnson break to get impeached?
27. 13th amendment:
28. 14th amendment:
29. 15th amendment:
30. What agency was set up during Reconstruction to help freedmen get back on their feet by providing education, shelter and food?
31. What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?
32. A carpetbagger is:
33. A scalawag is:
34. Name 3 methods employed by Southern governments to prevent African American males from voting.
35. What was the purpose of the KKK?
36. Suffrage is:
37. What battle split the Confederacy in half?
38. Who was the head conductor of the Underground Railroad?
39. What were the 3 goals of the Union’s Anaconda Plan to capture the Confederacy?
40. Who was the commander of the Confederate Army?
41. Which group wanted to punish the Confederate soldiers during Reconstruction?
42. What compromise ended Reconstruction?
43. What was Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction called?