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Social Studies Test:
Progress report test: 4/27/17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| “Bleeding Kansas” - | 1855 |
| Dred Scott V Sanford - | 1857 |
| Election of 1860- | 1860 |
| Attack on Fort Sumter – | April 1861 |
| First Battle of Bull Run – | July 1861 |
| Battle of Shiloh – | April 1862 |
| Antietam – | September 1862 |
| Emancipation Proclamation – | January 1, 1863 |
| Battle of Gettysburg – | July 1863 |
| Battle of Vicksburg – | May, 1863 |
| Gettysburg Address – | November 1863 |
| Sherman’s March to the Sea – | November 1864 |
| Compromise of 1850 – | Harsher Fugitive Slave Law, California admitted as a free state, sale of slaves is banned in Washington DC, Popular Sovereignty applied to territories of the Mexican Cession |
| Know the locations of the following states – California, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland | |
| Know the locations of the following states – California, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland | |
| Know the locations of the following states – California, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland | |
| Know the locations of the following states – California, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland | |
| Know the locations of the following states – California, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland | |
| Know the locations of the following states – California, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland | |
| Dred Scott V Sanford – | gave popular sovereignty around the issue of slavery therefore Congress had no control over where slavery spread |
| Republican party – | Wanted to permit slavery in the South but prevent its expansion into new territories |
| John Brown – | Led attack on Harper’s Ferry, tried to lead a slave rebellion, was captured and hung |
| Nat Turner – | Slave who led a revolt |
| Stephen Douglas - | debated Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race in 1858; Douglas won the election |
| Immediately after the election of 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union. | |
| States that seceded prior to the Civil War – | Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Florida |
| Border States – Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, West Virginia | |
| Attack on Fort Sumter – Started the Civil War; Confederates fired on the Federal Fort in Charleston, S.C. | |
| Economic difference between the North and South – Southern economy was built on agriculture, Northern economy was built on manufacturing | |
| Immediately after the Election of 1860, even before Lincoln was inaugurated, South Carolina seceded | |
| Union advantages – more factories, more railroads, stronger navy | |
| Confederate advantages – better Generals; more motivation, knowledge of the terrain | |
| Union Generals – George Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman | |
| Union states – Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts | |
| Confederate Generals – Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard | |
| Confederate states – South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Virginia | |
| Union strategy at the beginning of the war – To capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia and to use the Anaconda Plan to divide the Confederacy and blockade her ports | |
| Key Confederate victories – Fredericksburg, Fort Sumter, Chancellorsville, Battle of Bull Run | |
| Ulysses S. Grant – Commander of the Union Army | |
| Robert E. Lee – Graduated from US Military Academy, Commander of the Confederate Army, surrendered at Appomattox Court House | |
| Abraham Lincoln – President of the United States | |
| Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederacy | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman – March to the Sea, marched through Georgia waging Total War (destroying everything that could contribute to the enemy) | |
| Battle of Antietam – bloodiest one day of battle in US history, no side gained any ground, after this battle the USA gave the Emancipation Proclamation | |
| Emancipation Proclamation – freed slaves in states that were in rebellion against the USA | |
| Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson – key General for the Confederacy, lost his arm at Chancellorsville | |
| Battle of Gettysburg – turning point of the war, fought in Pennsylvania | |
| Appomattox Court House – Location in Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant | |
| Clara Barton – Angel of the Battlefield, established the American Red Cross | |
| Battle of Vicksburg – battle in Mississippi that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River | |
| William Carney – African American who fought in 54th Massachusetts and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his participation in the battle of Fort Wagner | |
| As the war progressed Lincoln changed his ideas about the reasons for the outbreak of the war. | |
| The impact of the Civil War was more destructive in the South than the North because most major battles took place in the South. | |
| Reconstruction – from 1865-1877, process of rebuilding the South, ended with the Election of 1876 | |
| Freedmen’s Bureau – opened new schools, provided food and clothing, helped reunite families | |
| Andrew Johnson – was impeached for unlawfully removing a cabinet official from office | |
| Panic of 1873 – nationwide economic panic that resulted in Northerners losing interest in the South and Reconstruction | |
| Compromise of 1877 – Reconstruction was brought to an end in the South by the compromise that helped Rutherford Hayes win the Presidency |