CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION TEST

North Geography

Economy

Transportation

Society

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Rocky thin soil, rushing rivers, cold harsh winters

Based on Industry an Factories

Canals, Rivers, Turnpikes, Railroads

Attracted many immigrants

South Geography

Economy

Transportation

Society

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Long growing season, fertile soil

Based on agriculture

Mississippi River, not as advanced as North

Less diverse, slavery

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

_________________________: Mini civil war in Kansas when settlers from both the North and the South rushed to vote on if Kansas was going to be a slave state or not.  _________________________: Supreme Court Case that made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional – Add: Slaves were not citizens, but property _________________________: Law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to both vote on if slavery would be legal in their state or not.  _________________________: Compromise that admitted California as a free state, created a harsher fugitive slave law, and allowed the Mexican Cession to vote on slavery

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott Decision

Kansas-Neb. Act

Compromise of 1850

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

_________________________: The idea that states are able to limit the power of the national government  _________________________: When S. Carolina threatened to secede if the Tariff of 1828 was not lifted _________________________: Compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and created the 36’30’’ line. _________________________: When Lincoln was elected president 

States’ Rights

Nullification Crisis

Missouri Compromise

Election of 1860

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

_________________________: Loyalty to your section of the country rather than the country as a whole _________________________: Bestselling book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the evils of slavery

Sectionalism

Uncle Toms Cabin

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

3. What was the cause of bleeding Kansas?

4. What was the effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

5. What was the final cause of the Civil War that caused the South to secede?

Kansas – Nebraska Act

Support for abolitionists cause grew in the North

Election of 1860

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

6. How did the outcome of the Dred Scott affect the Missouri Compromise?

7. How did Calhoun and Webster’s view on the nullification crisis differ?

8. How did the fugitive slave law make the North feel?

Dred Scott made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

Calhoun – Supported it and states’ rights; Webster – did not support it

North believed law was unfair and many began to support the abolitionists movement

THE CIVIL WAR

Union/North President:

Commander:

Important General:

Abe Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

Sherman

THE CIVIL WAR

Confederacy/ South

President:

Commander:

Important General:

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

Stonewall Jackson

CIVIL WARFort Sumter

Antietam

Gettysburg

Confederate attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War

Lincoln used victory to issue Emancipation Proclamation

Turning point in the war, Gettysburg Address

CIVIL WARVicksburg

Sherman’s March

Appomattox Courthouse

Union victory divides Confederacy into 2 parts

Total warfare used to destroy cities and farms in the South

Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the war

CIVIL WAR“All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.”

-President Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address, 18651. Circle every time you see the word interest in the quote2. True or False: the quote states that the “interest” is the cause of the war.

 3. Circle “restrict the territorial enlargement of it”4. By using what you circled and what you know is true of the causes of the Civil War,

what is the “Interest” that the quote is referring to?  

True

Slavery

CIVIL WAR“With malice toward none; with charity toward all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”

-President Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address, 18651. What is malice?

 2. What is Charity?

 3. How does Lincoln want to treat the South after the Civil War?

  

Hatred

Help

He does not want to punish them but wants to help them easily get back into the Union

RECONSTRUCTION

12. What is reconstruction

13. The South was in bad shape after the war. Give 3 examples.

Time of rebuilding in the South

1. Railroad, farms, and homes destroyed2. Bank failures in South

3. Confederate money was worthless

RECONSTRUCTION

14. Chart for Reconstruction Plans

Lincoln’s Plan Andrew Johnson’s Plan

Radical Reconstruction Plan

10% Plan that was easy on the South

Wanted to model his plan after Lincoln’s

Harsh plan used to punish the South

RECONSTRUCTION

15. Explain the Amendments

13th 14th 15thFreed Slaves Made freed slaves

citizensGave right to vote to all free men