Unit Test will cover Kennedy chapters 16 - 22. Use the following outline to help focus your studying. Here is the answer key to the chapter review questions.
Essay Test: Thursday December 3
Multiple Choice Test: Friday December 4
I. Intensifying the Sectional Crisis
- How did territorial expansion lead to Civil War?
- The "peculiar institution" - What made slavery a "peculiar institution"?
- Reasons for increase in slaves in 19th century
- Characteristics of slavery on large plantations versus small farmers
- Meaning of phrase "Cotton is King"
- How did the United States acquire new territory?
- Manifest Destiny - advocates in favor of expansion versus those against expansion
- President Polk's territorial acquisitions
- Oregon
- Texas
- California
- Mexican-American War
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- How did the events of the 1850s intensify political and economic sectionalism?
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
- birth of the Republican Party
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, 1857
II. Civil War
- How do Lincoln's speeches reflect the changing goal and course of the Civil War?
- Goals of Union and Confederacy in 1861
- Advantages and disadvantages Union and Confederacy at start of war
- Mobilization for war & reactions on homefront
- Conscription laws
- suspension of habeas corpus
- Draft Riots, 1863
- copperheads
- Important battles & turning points in the war:
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Important Generals & their contributions to the war
- General Lee (Confederacy)
- General McClellan (Union)
- General Grant (Union)
- Lincoln's speeches
- First Inaugural
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Gettysburg Address
- Second Inaugural
III. Reconstruction
- Constitutional Reconstruction
- 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
- Political Reconstruction
- President Andrew Johnson's efforts to hinder Reconstruction
- Radical Republicans v. Moderate Republicans
- Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stephens
- African American representatives in Congress
- Southern resistance: "Redeemers"
- Economic Reconstruction
- sharecropping
- no redistribution of land to recently freed slaves
- Social Reconstruction
- African Americans experience freedom
- Freedmen's Bureau, education, church, movement to new areas
- Southern resistance to freed people
- Black Codes
- Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- KKK
As you review for the essay, consider the successes and failures of Reconstruction, as well as what stayed the same and what changed during this time period.
