Unit 5 CUA Study Guide
What were the parts of the Missouri Compromise? /- Missouri- slave state
- Maine- free state
- Slavery allowed below the 36°30’ line of latitude
Annexation of Texas and Oregon, Mexican War, California Gold Rush, and Compromise of 1850 are part of what concept? / Manifest Destiny
What were the parts of the Compromise of 1850? /
- California- free state
- Fugitive Slave Act
- NM and Utah uses popular sovereignty to decide on slavery
- Washington DC abolished slave trade
How was popular sovereignty used prior to the Civil War? / Settlers in territories decide on whether or not to have slavery
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act increase sectional tension in the United States? / Reopened the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty and repealed the Missouri Compromise
What was the ruling of the Supreme Court in the case Dred Scott vs. Sanford? / African Americans were not citizens and didn’t have the right to sue in court
What impact did John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry have? / It scared southern slave owners who depended on slaves for their livelihood
Extensive railroads, larger populations, and 92% of U.S. Industrial output gave which region the advantage in the Civil War? / The North
What was the significance of Fort Sumter? / The South fired upon a federal fort and started the Civil War
Why did Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus? / To keep dissenters from damaging his efforts to preserve the Union
Why was the Battle of Antietam important? / Was the victory Lincoln needed for the Emancipation Proclamation
How was the Emancipation Proclamation significant? / The moral cause of slavery became an objective in the war
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the war? / The Confederacy was never able to recover from the heavy losses
Why was Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address considered such an important part of the Union victory? / It reminded Americans what they were fighting for and it increased soldier morale
Who were the two main generals for the Confederate Army? / Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Which battle gave the Union control over the Mississippi River? / Vicksburg
Why did Grant and Sherman target Atlanta in 1864? / Atlanta was a transportation hub and had a large number of railroad supply lines
What was the main point of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address? / That he was still committed to preserving the Union
What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction? / To readmit the Southern states back into the Union as soon as possible
What was the primary reason the House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson? / His opposition of Radical Republican efforts at Reconstruction
What was the Radical Republican (Congressional) Reconstruction? / Forced the southern states to reapply for admission and secure the rights of newly freed slaves
What was the 14th Amendment? / Gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
What was the 15th Amendment? / Voting rights for males regardless of race or previous condition of servitude
Black Codes, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Freedmen’s Bureau, and Sharecropping are part of which era of U.S. History? / Reconstruction
How did the Compromise get Rutherford B. Hayes into the White House as president? / Democrats agreed to allow Hayes (Republican) to be president if U.S. troops were removed from the South