Unit 3:
Transforming the Nation–1830s to 1877 (Lessons 1-4)
The Objective Exam will consist primarily of multiple choice questions. The total value is
100 points. There are 25 questions each at 4 points. Reminder: This Unit consists
of Lessons 1-4. The word Lessons refers
to Blackboard learning modules. Blackboard learning modules have a Table of
Contents on the left that let you see all of the resources available so you can
click on the one you want. All Lessons have links from your instructor and
sometimes additional resources such as maps and Learning Quizzes. Note:
·
8 of the 25
questions come from these Learning Quizzes (and those concepts in the Learning
Quizzes help you understand the other content in the Unit)
·
17 of them come
from below.
The Objective Exam is available for 30 minutes, a time
set by the Department. Objective exams do not have a password, but must be done
with Respondus LockDown Browser. The 5
Ws rule is a good guide to
understanding the items below: you should know Who, What, When, Where, and Why—and
sometimes How. The Instructor’s links provide visuals, frequently in tables, to
help you compare facts to see similarities and differences.
If you need more than is in the Lessons
on any specific issue listed here, just ask. This Guide has more detail than
others. Let me know if it helps.
1.
North and South compared – commerce, agriculture, labor, banking,
urban areas (cities), immigration to, transportation, technology, literacy or
lack of it 2.
South’s characteristics from the 1830s ·
“peculiar institution” ·
Slavery as a “positive good” (earlier view as a “necessary evil”) ·
Views, anti-city, pro-agrarian, pro-white ·
Dominance of planters in (although they are a minority) ·
Slavery and cotton, main international markets, dependence on cotton
gin ·
Slaves, quantity used in cotton production and increase in quantity
over time 3.
Sojourner Truth, African American, former slave, abolitionist, speaker
for women’s rights 4.
Rebellions by slaves or free blacks with the most famous perhaps being
Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner. 5.
American Colonization Society, an early movement to deal with slavery
by returning freed slaves to Liberia in Africa 6.
North’s characteristics from the 1830s ·
Varied general reform movements (examples in 7.) ·
Against slavery: American Anti-Slavery Society, a
small movement for immediate abolition of slavery, and ·
Against slavery: Underground railroad 7.
Examples of the North’s varied general reform movements ·
Horace Mann, public education, and literacy ·
Insane asylums and prisons and Dorothea Dix ·
Second Great Awakening ·
Suffrage and Susan B. Anthony ·
Temperance ·
Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau (also
the author of Civil Disobedience” ·
Utopian communes (such as Shakers) Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Lesson 2. 8.
Free Soil movement (West and North) and political party to stop
expansion of slavery to the territories 9.
“manifest destiny” and John L. O’Sullivan 10.
Westward expansion - consequences on Native Americans 11.
1844 Election of James Knox Polk with a platform of annexation of
Texas (happens) and taking British territory to expand Oregon (does not
happen) 12.
Mexican War, starts with a Texas/Mexico boundary dispute 13.
Wilmont Proviso (proviso = a condition) 14.
Mexican War, territory gained 15.
1849 California Gold Rush 16.
California’s request for admission as a free state |
17.
Compromise of 1850 18.
Fugitive Slave Act – part that offended most Northerners 19.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle
Tom’s Cabin 20.
Gadsden Purchase of 1853 21.
Popular sovereignty (dangers of) and the Kansas Nebraska Act 22.
“Bleeding Kansas” (with majority of Kansans being pro-free-state) 23.
John Brown in Kansas 24.
Preston Brooks’ attack on Senator Charles Sumner 25.
Split in the Democratic party and rise of the Republican Party and of
Abraham Lincoln, a moderate 26.
John Brown at Harper’s Ferry 27.
Lincoln’s positon on slavery or secession (Don’t assume!) ·
In the Lincoln-Douglas Debates ·
In the 1st Inaugural Address ·
When the South 1st seceded ·
When the South was defeated 28.
1860-1861, month of Lincoln’s election and month of his taking office 29.
Secession crisis, South Carolina firing on a federal fort, Fort Sumter,
(before Lincoln takes office) 30.
Confederacy formed, Jefferson Davis elected Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Lesson 3 (Quick Reference to the Civil War). 31.
Confederacy’s initial goals of the war (Don’t assume!) 32.
Northern purposes for the blockade of the South 33.
Northern and Southern strengths and weaknesses for war - commerce,
agriculture, labor, banking, urban areas (cities), immigration to,
transportation, technology, literacy or lack of it, communication, government
infrastructure 34.
Northern and Southern strengths and weakness for financing the war
(for collecting taxes, buying needed things, paying soldiers and other
employees, paying for purchases) 35.
Legal Tender Act– greenback in the North; inflation in South 36.
Legislation passed while the South was out of the Union: protective
tariffs, National Banking Act, Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant Act,
transcontinental railroad – These set the stage for the new North. 37.
Draft, North and South 38.
1862, Antietam (significance) and stating the proclamation to come 39.
1863, Emancipation Proclamation (limitations on where it applied) 40.
Contraband of war – the meaning 41.
Medicine and nursing (female) and the Civil War – Clara Barton forms
the Red Cross during this period. 42.
1863, Gettysburg (significance) 43.
1863, Vicksburg (significance) 44.
1864, Sherman’s March to the Sea (significance) 45.
1864, Election of 1864 (significance on continuance of the war) 46.
1865, 13th Amendment passed 47.
1865, Appomattox (significance) 48.
1865, Lincoln assassinated; President Andrew Johnson (who is he?) 49.
Northern and Southern strengths and weakness at the end of the war Continues on the next page |
Begins on the prior page Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Lesson 4. (Quick Reference to Reconstruction.) 50.
Actions when a slave became a freedman ·
First action, seek separated family members ·
Later action, form schools for their children 51.
1865, South’s action – Black codes (state codes) 52.
1865, 13th amendment ratified by the states 53.
1866, to stop Black codes, 1st Civil Rights Act, 2nd
as 14th Amendment – major parts – States, not just Congress, could
not violate “due process”; citizenship defined 54.
1866, South’s action – race riots in Memphis and New Orleans 55.
1866, Klu Klux Klan starts 56.
1866 (a mid-term election), Northern response by voters 57.
Military Reconstruction Act 58.
1868, 15th Amendment proposed 59.
1668, impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
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1868, Election – US Grant – “waving the bloody shirt” campaign 61.
1870, Attacks on African American voters
(notice black males are voting), Grant’s response 62.
1870, KKK again but this time stopped by KKK Act 63.
1872- scandals in the Grant administration 64.
1873, Panic of and unemployment 65.
Throughout this period, rise of sharecropping and tenant farming and
the crop-lien system 66.
1876, Election 67.
Compromise of 1877 (what does it do? What does the South get for the
Democrats not fighting over the electoral college results?) 68.
What’s the legacy of the 13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments? Consider these examples: Having those amendments to the
Constitution means the NAACP can sue
in the decades to come. Those doors that will eventually open for African
Americans will eventually open for women and others. |