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 for this Unit (and those concepts in
the Learning Quizzes help you understand the other content in the Unit)
·
17 of them come
from below.
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.
Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Lesson 1. 1.
North and South compared – 2.
Development of South’s characteristics from the 1830s ·
“peculiar institution” ·
Slavery as a “positive good” (earlier view as a “necessary evil”)
·
Slavery and cotton, main international markets with Britain and
France, dependence on cotton gin as only technology
5.
American Colonization Society, an early movement in both North and
South to deal with slavery by paying the master and 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 ·
William Lloyd Garrison (newspaper The
Liberator) ·
Frederick Douglass, African American, former slave, abolitionist
(newspaper The North Star) ·
Against slavery: Underground railroad 7.
Examples of the North’s varied general reform movements
·
Insane asylums and prisons and Dorothea Dix
·
Suffrage and Susan B. Anthony ·
Temperance
·
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”
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
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 and the South’s desired railroad route 21.
Popular sovereignty (dangers of) and the Kansas Nebraska Act and the
North’s desired railroad route 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.
26.
John Brown at Harper’s Ferry 27.
Lincoln’s positon on slavery (Don’t assume!) in the Lincoln-Douglas
Debates, in the 1st Inaugural Address, and when the South 1st
seceded
29.
Secession crisis, South Carolina firing on a federal fort, Fort
Sumter, (before Lincoln takes office) 30.
Confederacy (meaning of word) formed, Jefferson Davis elected Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Lesson 3 (. 31.
Initial goals of the Confederacy and the North 32.
Northern purposes for the blockade of the South 33.
Northern and Southern strengths and weaknesses for war (the same
traits from the past still apply)- 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
37.
Draft, North and South 38.
1862, Antietam (significance) and stating the proclamation to come 39.
1863, Emancipation Proclamation (limitations on where it applied)
41.
Medicine and nursing (female) and the Civil War – Example: Clara
Barton (Her experience later leads her to form the Red Cross). 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?)
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Begins on the prior page Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Lesson 4. 50.
Actions when a slave became a freedman ·
First action, seek separated family members ·
Later action, form schools for their children and churches 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, New Orleans 55.
1866, Klu Klux Klan starts 56.
1866 (a mid-term election), Northern response by voters is great anger
against the South 57.
Military Reconstruction Act 58.
1868, 15th Amendment proposed 59.
1668, impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
60.
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, in the South for poor white and blacks both
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?)
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