These approximately 36 Study Terms (but many with several
choices) are grouped to try to help you. Do not
put Tips in the Subject.
Tips include how to find content when it is in the textbook, but not in its index. This content is always in the Lessons or
Learning Quizzes.
Lesson 1 –Use its Learning Quiz on
Essential Terms 1st 1.
What
is the “peculiar institution”? 2.
What
is the difference in the South’s seeing slavery as a necessary evil and as a
positive good? 3.
Discuss
the American Anti-Slavery Society and
its founder. 4.
Discuss
Frederick Douglass 5.
Discuss
1 of the North’s varied general reform movements and define the terms ·
Insane
asylums and prisons and Dorothea Dix ·
Suffrage
and Susan B. Anthony ·
Temperance ·
Utopian
communes (such as Shakers) ------------------------------------------------- 6.
Discuss
1 of these terms: ·
Free
Soil movement and as a political party ·
“manifest
destiny” in general ·
“manifest
destiny” as it relates to the 1844 Election and Texas and Oregon 7.
Discuss
either: ·
1846
Mexican War and Texas/Mexico boundary dispute ·
1848
Mexican War and territory gained and not gained 8.
Discuss
either: ·
What
made the Compromise of 1850 necessary? ·
What
were the parts of the Compromise of 1850? 9.
Discuss
either: ·
Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin ·
American
Party (Know Nothing) - nativism 10.
What
was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase? 11.
Discuss
either: ·
Why popular
sovereignty was dangerous? ·
How
popular sovereignty was to “work” with the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska? 12.
Discuss
either: ·
“Bleeding
Kansas” ·
John
Brown in Kansas ·
John
Brown at Harper’s Ferry 13.
What
led to the Republican Party? 14.
Who
was Preston Brooks and what does his action show about the South? 15.
Discuss
Lincoln’s view on slavery in either
of these cases: ·
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates ·
1st
Inaugural Address ·
When
the South 1st seceded |
16.
List traits
of either: ·
Government
of the Confederacy (and define) ·
Jefferson
Davis ------------------------------------------------- Lesson 3 – Use its Learning Quizzes on
Maps 1st 17.
Initial
goals of the 2 sides; Great Britain and France 18.
Northern
purposes for the blockade of the South 19.
Northern
and Southern strengths and weaknesses for either: ·
War—traits
from the past still apply ·
Financing
the war (collecting taxes, buying needed things, paying soldiers, paying for
purchases) 20.
What’s
the Legal Tender Act in the North and what does the South do? 21.
How
does the draft work in North and South? 22.
What
is the Emancipation Proclamation and where is it applied? 23.
Who
is Clara Barton? 24.
For 1
of these battles, cover key issues (location, brief summary, and
significance) of: ·
Antietam ·
Gettysburg ·
Vicksburg ·
Sherman’s
March to the Sea ·
Appomattox 25.
What
is the significance of the Election of 1864? 26.
What’s
the 13th Amendment? 27.
What
are the traits of Andrew Johnson? ----------------------------------------- Lesson 4 – Use its Learning Quizzes on
Constitution 1st. 28.
What
did freedmen (freed, former slaves) do at the end of the Civil War? 29.
What
are black codes in the South? 30.
What 2
legal actions (with the 2nd happening only after it is ratified) stop
the Black codes? 31.
What are
race riots and where are they in the South? 32.
Was
the Klu Klux Klan in this time period? Caution: it starts in 1866, rises again
in 1870 and is stopped by KKK Act, but that is not in this textbook. 33.
Why
did the Northern voters have to do
with the military districts in South (Military Reconstruction Act) 34.
What‘s
the 15th Amendment? 35.
Why
is Andrew Johnson impeached? (Note: in 1868, US Grant is elected President.) Tips for # 36 and 36 continues on the next
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Lesson 4 Continued Tips: 1870, Attacks on African American voters
(notice black males are voting), Grant’s response 1872-1876
Northern interest in the South’s actions declines (scandals, corruption,
Panic of 1873, rising unemployment) 1876, Election ·
Republican Hayes, fewer popular votes ·
Democrat
Tilden, more popular votes ·
Disputes
over the electoral college results in 4 states 36.
Discuss
briefly a and b about the Compromise
of 1877 a.
What
does it do? b.
What
does the South get for the Democrats not fighting over the Electoral College
results? Caution:
do not go to Wikipedia! |
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