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Unit 6: Crisis and Civil WarAmerican History 1 Course Materials

Table of Contents:

Assignment Name Date Assigned Progress Grade

1. Unit 6 Vocabulary

2. America the Story of Us: Civil War

3. Civil War Web Quest

4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin excerpt

5. Comic Strip (Lincoln-Douglas Debates or Pottawatomie Massacre)

6. Election of 1860

7. Antebellum Economics

8. Battles of the Civil War

9. Suspension of Habeas Corpus

10. Gettysburg Address

11. Crash Course 19, 20 & 21

12. Unit 6 Study Guide

(back of the cover page)

American History 1 - Unit 6: Crisis & Civil War Vocabulary

Definition and historically accurate sentence without using the definition. Relevant example or draw a pictureAntebellum: time period before the American Civil WarUse it in a sentence:

Confederacy: the states in the South that broke away from the United States to form their own nationUse it in a sentence:

1. Union: the states in the North that remained loyal to the federal government during the Civil WarUse it in a sentence:

Popular Sovereignty: the idea that the people have the right to rule themselves, power lies with the peopleUse it in a sentence:

Secession: the act of withdrawing membership from a group, especially a political state.Use it in a sentence:

Attrition: gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of something or someone.Use it in a sentence:

1. Blockade: isolated a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.Use it in a sentence:

Campaign (military): series of military operation to achieve a particular goal.Use it in a sentence:

Siege: blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender.Use it in a sentence:

Mandate: an official order.Use it in a sentence:

Conscription: required enlistment into the armed forces; a military draft.Use it in a sentence:

Emancipation: to free someone (from slavery)

Use it in a sentence:

Habeas Corpus: an order requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court.Use it in a sentence:

Inflation: an increase in prices and fall in the value of money.Use it in a sentence:

Stems:Examples Stem? Meaning?

antebellum, anteroom, antedateconscription, confederacycorpus, corps, corporealunion, united, uniform

Map Terms: Review Time! Be able to identify the following states on the map.

DelawarePennsylvaniaNew JerseyGeorgiaConnecticutMassachusettsMarylandSouth CarolinaNew HampshireVirginiaNew YorkNorth CarolinaRhode IslandVermontKentuckyTennesseeOhioLouisianaIndianaMississippiIllinoisAlabamaMaineMissouriArkansas

America: The Story of Us Episode 5: “Civil War”

1. Why can the Civil War be described as the first “modern war”?

2. Why was the death toll so high in the Civil War?

3. How many people were dead on both sides by the end of the war?

4. Who was a significantly important general of the Union Army (South)?

5. What was one of Lincoln’s “hidden weapons” during the war? How?

6. How long did the Civil War last?

7. The invention of Morse Code in 1844 turns the telegraph into America’s first tool of _________ ___________________. (Lincoln’s 2nd weapon)

8. 75% of the operations performed during the war were ______________________.

9. Who is Clara Barton? Describe why she is important.

10. What business grows because of the war, turning some into millionaires?

11. Almost _______________ emancipated blacks signed up as soldiers.

12. What event was Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address written for?

13. Which general from the North’s tactics helped Lincoln to get re-elected?

Causes of the Civil War Web Quest.

Read each question and use the website listed to find the correct answer.

1. Define the following terms:1. Underlying cause - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/underlying (defs 2 & 3 are the best)

2. Immediate cause http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/immediate. (defs 4 & 5 are the best)

2. Why , Where and for What purpose was slavery used in the United States? http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/slavery.html

3. What was a Cotton Gin? What effect did it have on slavery in the South? http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/

4. As our nation expanded during the 1800s, the issue of expanding or limiting slavery in the United States was a key issue. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html

1. Explain how the Missouri Compromise 1820 dealt with the issue of slavery–

2. Explain how the Compromise of 1850 dealt with the issue of slavery –

3. Explain how the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 dealt with the issue of slavery –

5. What effect did the Dred Scott Supreme Court case have on Dred Scott’s freedom? What effect did the case have on the Missouri Compromise? http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/dred_scott/scott03.htm

6. What is an Abolitionist? http://history1800s.about.com/od/1800sglossary/g/abolitdef.htm

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8. What was William Lloyd Garrison and what was his newspaper about? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html

9. What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html

10. What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the Abolitionist movement and how much would be paid for her capture? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

11. What was the new political party that was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1856? What political goals were stated in their platform? http://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm

12. Who said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!” Who is the little woman? What is the name of the book? How could it be blamed for the war? http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml

13. Who was John Brown and what did he do on October 16, 1859? What happened to John Brown? http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_brown_1.html (read page 1-4 for the whole story)

14. Presidential elections can have a great effect on our nation. What party and person won the election of 1860? What was the South’s response to the election? http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/research/americanhistory/ap_civilwar-lincoln.php

15. What was the immediate cause of the Civil War? http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm117.html

Comic Strip: Design a comic strip telling the story of one of the following events: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates or the Pottawatomie Massacre (extra information is attached here) Use your best drawing and handwriting and include multiple colors. You may draw as many panels (boxes) in your comic as you need to, there is no limit.

Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories.

The slavery extension question had seemingly been settled by the Missouri Compromise nearly 40 years earlier. The Mexican War, however, had added new territories, and the issue flared up again in the 1840s. The Compromise of 1850 provided a temporary respite from sectional strife, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854—a measure Douglas sponsored—brought the slavery extension issue to the fore once again. Douglas’s bill in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise by lifting the ban against slavery in territories north of the 36°30′ latitude. In place of the ban, Douglas offered popular sovereignty, the doctrine that the actual settlers in the territories and not Congress should decide the fate of slavery in their midst.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act spurred the creation of the Republican Party, formed largely to keep slavery out of the western territories. Both Douglas’s doctrine of popular sovereignty and the Republican stand on free soil were seemingly invalidated by the Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the Supreme Court said that neither Congress nor the territorial legislature could exclude slavery from a territory.

When Lincoln and Douglas debated the slavery extension issue in 1858, therefore, they were addressing the problem that had divided the nation into two hostile camps and that threatened the continued existence of the Union. Their contest, as a consequence, had repercussions far beyond determining who would win the senatorial seat at stake.

When Lincoln received the Republican nomination to run against Douglas, he said in his acceptance speech that “A house divided against itself cannot stand” and that “this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” Douglas thereupon attacked Lincoln as a radical, threatening the continued stability of the Union. Lincoln then challenged Douglas to a series of debates, and the two eventually agreed to hold joint encounters in seven Illinois congressional districts.

The debates, each three hours long, were convened in Ottawa (August 21), Freeport (August 27), Jonesboro (September 15), Charleston (September 18), Galesburg (October 7), Quincy (October 13), and Alton (October 15). Douglas repeatedly tried to brand Lincoln as a dangerous radical who advocated racial equality and disruption of the Union. Lincoln emphasized the moral iniquity of slavery and attacked popular sovereignty for the bloody results it had produced in Kansas.At Freeport Lincoln challenged Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision. Douglas replied that settlers could circumvent the decision by not establishing the local police regulations—i.e., a slave code—that protected a master’s property. Without such protection, no one would bring slaves into a territory. This became known as the “Freeport Doctrine.”

Douglas’s position, while acceptable to many Northern Democrats, angered the South and led to the division of the last remaining national political institution, the Democratic Party. Although he retained his seat in the Senate, narrowly defeating Lincoln when the state legislature (which then elected U.S. senators) voted 54 to 46 in his favour, Douglas’s stature as a national leader of the Democratic Party was gravely diminished. Lincoln, on the other hand, lost the election but won acclaim as an eloquent spokesman for the Republican cause.

In 1860 the Lincoln-Douglas debates were printed as a book and used as an important campaign document in the presidential contest that year, which once again pitted Republican Lincoln against Democrat Douglas. This time, however, Douglas was running as the candidate of a divided party and finished a distant second in the popular vote to the triumphant Lincoln.

"Lincoln-Douglas debates". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 27 Sep. 2012<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/341764/Lincoln-Douglas-debates>.

Pottawatomie Massacre The fifth victim floated nearby as John Brown and his men washed blood from their swords in Pottawatomie Creek. Brown said that the killings had been committed in accordance to "God’s will," and that he wanted to "strike terror in the hearts of the proslavery people." His killings would provoke fear and reprisals -- pushing America one step closer to an all-out civil war.

In the mid-1850’s, "Kansas Fever" swept the country. 126,000 square miles of wilderness lying west of Missouri had just been opened for settlement. Five of John Brown’s sons responded to the call, joining thousands of settlers heading west in search of a better future. But the Brown boys also went to stake a claim for liberty; they went to ensure that the new territories would be kept free of slavery. The Missouri Compromise, which restricted the expansion of slavery, was swept aside by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. With a nod to Southern power, the federal government decided to place the volatile issue of slavery into the hands of those settling the new territories. The people would decide, by popular vote, whether to be "free" or "slave."

Free soil and proslavery forces poured into Kansas, and the territory erupted in violence. On March 30th, 1855, a horde of 5000 heavily armed Missourians -- known as "Border Ruffians" -- rode into the territory. They seized the polling places and voted in their own legislature. Severe penalties were leveled against anyone who spoke or wrote against slaveholding; those who assisted fugitives would be put to death or sentenced to ten years hard labor.

John Brown was initially reluctant to join his sons in Kansas. He was 55, an old man by the actuarial tables of his day. He seemed worn down, broken by a lifetime of failures and disappointments. But a letter from Kansas changed his mind. The free-soilers needed arms "more than bread," his son John Jr. wrote. "Now we want you to get for us these arms."

The next day John Brown packed a wagon and headed west, gathering weapons along the way. "I’m going to Kansas," he declared, "to make it a Free state."

When Brown arrived at his son’s homestead, he was dismayed at what he found; his boys were starving, shivering with fever. In three weeks Brown built a sturdy log cabin, then another. He quickly brought order to their homestead - named "Brown’s Station."

Of the five sons, John Jr. was most like his father. A blunt talking abolitionist, he was the captain of the Pottawatomie Rifles, a small group of free-state men living near the creek from which they took their name. They frequently exchanged threats of violence with their proslavery neighbors, but maintained an uneasy truce.

Throughout the winter, the Brown men heard stories of Southern aggression: a battalion of 400 armed Southerners were marching into the territory, a free-state man was hacked to death, his body tossed onto his doorstep, President Pierce, a Southern sympathizer, warned that organized resistance on the part of free-state Kansans would be regarded as treasonable insurrection.

For the Browns, another proslave invasion seemed imminent. When word came on May 21st that hundreds of Border Ruffians had marched on Lawrence, John Jr.'s Pottawatomie Rifles quickly assembled. Old Brown accompanied them, but did not join their ranks.

He took orders from no man, certainly not one of his sons.

En route to Lawrence they learned that the Ruffians had sacked the town, burned the Free-State Hotel, and not one abolitionist had dared to fire a gun. Brown was furious at this cowardly response. Within hours they received another disturbing report -- abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner had been brutally attacked on the United States Senate floor by a southern Congressman. Sumner’s speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," had provoked the attack. He was beaten within an inch of his life.

"Something must be done to show these barbarians that we, too, have rights," Brown declared. He took a small group of men under his command and told them to prepare for a "secret mission." John Jr. tried to keep his father in camp, cautioning him to commit no rash acts. But the old man stuck a revolver in his belt and led his men away. They marched toward Pottawatomie Creek, to the homes of proslavery sympathizers.

On the night of May 24th, 1856, Brown banged on the door of James Doyleand ordered the men to come outside. Brown’s men attacked them with broadswords. They executed three of the Doyles, splitting open heads and cutting off arms. Brown watched as if in a trance. When they were done, he put a bullet into the head of James Doyle. Brown’s party visited two more cabins, dragged out and killed two more men -- five in all.

"It was in response to extraordinary frustration and despair," comments author Russell Banks. "I really think he was like Samson trying to pull down the Temple. I don’t mean to condone it, any more than I would condone a car bomb in Belfast or Jerusalem, but there is a context, there is a progression, and we have to take a leap, an imaginative leap into his time and see the world as he saw it." Proslavery forces launched a manhunt, plundering homesteads as they searched the countryside for the Pottawatomie killers. John Brown took to the woods and evaded capture. His sons did not fair as well; John Jr. and Jason -- who had not been involved at Pottawatomie -- were savagely beaten. Frederick was shot through the heart. Brown’s Station was burnt to the ground. In September of 1856, a new territorial governor, John W. Geary, arrived in Kansas and began to restore order. The last major outbreak of violence was the Marais des Cynges massacre, in which Border Ruffians killed five Free State men. In all, approximately 55 people died in "Bleeding Kansas."

Election of 1860Directions: Color in the map to show which candidate won which states.

Results:1. Lincoln won: Oregon, California, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New

York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 4 of New Jersey’s votes2. Douglas won: Missouri & 3 of New Jersey’s votes3. Breckinridge won: Maryland, Delaware, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South

Carolina, Georgia and Florida4. Bell won: Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee

Do the math!5. How many votes did each candidate have? (add)

a. Lincoln: _____b. Douglas: _____c. Breckinridge: _____d. Bell: _____

6. How many total electoral votes? (add all states) _____7. What PERCENT did each candidate get? (To solve = # of votes ÷ # total

electoral votes × 100)e. Lincoln: ___%f. Douglas: ___%g. Breckinridge: ___%h. Bell: ___%

Graph it!8. Use the information you just calculated to make a pie chart that shows each

candidates’ percent of the vote. Use the same colors you used for the map!

Antebellum EconomicsCompared to the Southern states, the Northern states had a larger population (21.5 million, compared to 9 million), more factories (110,100, compared to 20,600), larger bank deposits ($207 million, compared to $47 million), and more horses (4.2 million, compared to 1.7 million). Using this data, create four pie charts showing what proportion of the United States' total of each of these four resources belonged to the North and to the South.

Population

□North

□South

Bank Deposits

□North

□South

Factories

□North

□South

Horses

□North

□South

Suspension of Habeas Corpus Name:1. Using a dictionary or encyclopedia, define habeas corpus in your own words:

2. Read this letter of Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow:Washington, Nov. 17th, 1861,398 Sixteenth Street.To the Hon. Wm. H. Seward,Secretary of State

Sir -- For nearly three months I have been confined, a close prisoner, shut out from air and exercise, and denied all communication with family and friends…I therefore most respectfully submit, that on Friday, August 23d, without warrant or other show of authority, I was arrested by the Detective Police, and my house taken in charge by them; that all my private letters, and my papers of a life time, were read and examined by them; that every law of decency was violated in the search of my house and person, and the surveillance over me.

…It is my sad experience to record even more revolting outrages than that, for during the first days of my imprisonment, whatever necessity forced me to seek my chamber, a detective stood sentinel at the open door. And thus for a period of seven days, I, with my little child, was placed absolutely at the mercy of men without character or responsibility; that during the first evening, a portion of these men became brutally drunk, and boasted in my hearing of the "nice times" they expected to have with the female prisoners; and that rude violence was used towards a colored servant girl during that evening, the extent of which I have not been able to learn. For any show of decorum afterwards was practiced toward me, I was indebted to the detective called Capt. Dennis.

In the careful analysis of my papers I deny the existence of a line I had not a perfect right to have written, or to have received. Freedom of speech and of opinion is the birthright of Americans, guaranteed to us by our Charter of Liberty, the Constitution of the United States. I have exercised my prerogative, and have openly avowed my sentiments. During the political struggle, I opposed your Republican party with every instinct of self-preservation. I believed your success a virtual nullification of the Constitution, and that it would entail upon us the direful consequences which have ensued. These sentiments have doubtless been found recorded among my papers, and I hold them as rather a proud record of my sagacity.

I … am…a prisoner in sight of the Executive Mansion, in sight of the Capitol where the proud statesmen of our land have sung…the blessings of our free institutions. Comment is idle. Freedom of thought, every right pertaining to the citizen has been suspended by what, I suppose, the President calls a "military necessity." A blow has been struck, by this total disregard of all civil rights, against the present system of Government, far greater in its effects than the severance of the Southern States…

My object is to call your attention to the fact: that during this long imprisonment, I am yet ignorant of the causes of my arrest; that my house has been seized and converted into a prison by the Government; that the valuable furniture it contained has been abused and destroyed; that during some periods of my imprisonment I have suffered greatly for want of proper and sufficient food. Also, I have to complain that, more recently, a woman of bad character, recognized as having been seen on the streets of Chicago as such, by several of the guard, calling herself Mrs. Onderdonk, was placed here in my house, in a room adjoining mine…

I could easily have escaped arrest, having had timely warning. I thought it impossible that your statesmanship might present such a proclamation of weakness to the world, as even the fragment of a once great Government turning its arms against the breasts of women and children. You have the power, sir, and may still further abuse it. You may prostrate the physical strength, by confinement in close rooms and insufficient food -- you may subject me to harsher, ruder treatment than I have already received, but you cannot imprison the soul…My sufferings will afford a significant lesson to the women of the South, that sex or condition is no bulwark against the surging billows of the "irrepressible conflict."

The "iron heel of power" may keep down, but it cannot crush out, the spirit of resistance in a people armed for the defence of their rights; and I tell you now, sir, that you are standing over a crater, whose smothered fires in a moment may burst forth…

In conclusion, I respectfully ask your attention to this protest, and have the honor to be, &c.,

Rose O. N. GreenhowRose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, Special Collections Library, Duke University (M.J. Solomon Scrapbook) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/1861-11-17/1861-11-17.html

3. Where in Greenhow's letter to Secretary Seward does she refer to the issue of habeas corpus though she does not use that term? Underline or highlight the text.

4. Make a bullet point list of all of the abuses Mrs. Greenhow’s letter mentions in the space below.5. Put a star beside any “Constitutional” issues on your list (habeas corpus and any Bill of Rights violations)

6. Lincoln received heavy criticism, from Northerners as well as Southerners, for his decision to suspend habeas corpus. Do you think the government should be permitted to restrict civil liberties during wartime? Explain your position. (one paragraph)

Gettysburg AddressInstructions: You have 2 minutes to read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address silently. Highlight unfamiliar words. After that, I’ll read it once out loud.

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.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- 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.

Abraham LincolnNovember 19, 1863

Look up five or more words that you are difficult or you are unfamiliar with. NO ONE will leave this blank.

1. First paragraph:a. A score is 20 years, so when was “four score and seven years ago”? ______ What happened then?

b. Who are “our fathers”? What can we know about “our fathers” from this sentence?

c. What is he saying is new about America?

2. Second paragraph:a. What is the Civil War testing?

b. When Lincoln says the nation was “so conceived and so dedicated” what is he referring to?

c. What are the people who are assembled at Gettysburg there to do?

3. Third paragraph:a. How does Lincoln’s argument that the war is about more than a place make his speech more compelling?

b. What did those who fought at Gettysburg do that those who have gathered cannot?

c. What is the unfinished work that those listening to the speech are asked to achieve? (List four specific ideas Lincoln ask his listeners to commit themselves to)

d. How does Lincoln use the idea of “unfinished work” to assign responsibility to his listeners?

Crash Course: Civil WarCrash Course US History 19: Battles of the Civil War

1. How many incidents/battles were there in the civil war?2. The first Battle of Bull Run gave General Jackson what nickname?3. The Battle at Hampden Roads, Virginia featured the first fight between

what kind of warships?4. At what battle was Lou Wallace accused of incompetence and cowardice?5. The battles at Fort Jackson and Fort St. Phillip gave the Union control over

what port?6. General Robert E. Lee and George McClellan fought a series of 6 battles

over 7 days which have been called what by historians (because they are so good at naming things)?

7. Confederates that made fake cannons out of stove pipes called these what?

8. Where was the bloodiest day of the war?a. Antietam, Marylandb. Washington, D. C.c. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

9. What is kind of wacky about the grave of Stonewall Jackson?10. Which battle featured: Picket’s Charge, the highest number of casualties,

and the Gettysburg Address?11. What was significant about the Appomattox Court House in Virginia?

Crash Course US History 20: The Civil War Part I1. What 4 wars (combined) did not have the number of casualties of the Civil

War?2. What four states that had slavery did not leave the union?3. If the war were really about the differences in economic means or states’

rights, the war should have started earlier during the Nullification Crisis – under what president?

4. What was the approximate population of the North at the time of the war?5. How many miles of railroad were in the north?6. What was the main advantage of the South?7. Who is the author of the MYSTERY DOCUMENT?8. Grant was unique in that he was totally okay with having huge losses of life

among his troops if it helped him win the battle or war, this why some referred to him as the what?

9. How many years passed before the Union adopted Grant’s strategies?10. Panic overcame New York with the approach of Lee’s army and the result

was what really unpleasant event(s)?\11. The capture of Atlanta was more of big deal than a military conquest

because it had to do with what political event happening at that time?

Crash Course US History 21: The Civil War Part II1. Though they were probably not really his last words who said “Honeybun,

how do I look in the face”?2. Approximately how many former slaves or freed black men were in the

Union army?3. Which amendment ended slavery in the United States?4. The Civil War was the first of what type of war?5. The Civil War caused people to switch from church yards to what for burial?6. Who is the “author” of the MYSTERY DOCUMENT, really the photographer?7. The North winning the war meant that the country would become what

(rather than an agrarian nation)?8. What act did the Republican congress pass which encouraged settlement of

the west?9. What was the money that was printed during the war called?Unit 6 Study Guide1. Explain Northern views of slavery:2. What arguments did Southerners use to support slavery:3. What was the gag rule?4. What did the Free-Soil Party believe?5. Had it been successful, this proposal would have banned slavery in the territories provided by the Mexican War.

6. This piece of legislation, drafted by Henry Clay, admitted California as a free state and ended the slave trade in Washington D.C. and updated fugitive slave laws.

7. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?8. This is the idea that new territories and states should vote on the legality of slavery within that territory.9. Harriet Tubman and others abolitionists developed this system to help escaped slaves reach their freedom:10. This book, while exaggerated, turned many uninterested northerners against slavery.11. Explain how the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused Bleeding Kansas:12. Where was violence over the question of territorial slavery most significant prior to the Civil War?13. This man played a part in Bleeding-Kansas and made a failed attempt to capture weapons at Harpers Ferry, which he planned to

use in a slave uprising. 14. What happened in the Senate after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?15. The Supreme Court ruled against this slave’s right to sue in US courts on the grounds that he was not a citizen?16. What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates?17. Why were the Lincoln-Douglas debates important for Lincoln?18. Who won the election of 1860 and who lost?19. What event caused South Carolina to secede from the Union in 1860?20. What specific events are IMMEDIATE causes of the Civil War?21. List Union advantages:22. List Confederate advantages:23. Which law provided government land at very low cost to encourage people to move west and start farms?24. Which law provided government land for the building of agricultural and technical colleges?25. He led the Confederate army in the Civil War26. What was the Union plan in the Civil War to blockade trade and destroy the Confederate economy called?27. How did the North pay for the war?28. Who were copperheads?29. What is Habeas Corpus?30. What did Lincoln do to Habeas Corpus?31. How did the South pay for the war?32. What was the Anaconda plan?33. What was the South’s strategy?34. What effect did technology have on the war?35. Bull Run / Manassas:36. Shiloh was important because…37. Monitor v. Virginia:38. Antietam:39. How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the purpose of the war?40. What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?41. What is a blockade runner?42. Describe soldier’s lives:43. What jobs did women do during the war?44. Why is Clara Barton important?45. U.S. Grant’s victory at __ gave the Union control of all travel on the Mississippi River.46. Confederate retreat from this massive three day battle marked the last invasion into Union territory, and served as the final turning

point of the war.47. Why is the Gettysburg Address important?48. Sherman’s March to the Sea was an example of…49. Why was capturing Petersburg important?50. What important event in the Civil War occurred at Appomattox Courthouse?