Civil War & Reconstruction Review

1. Civil War & Reconstruction Review Ms. Ramos Alta Loma High School

2. In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was to be decided by popular sovereignty.

3. Many northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding runaway slaves.

4. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the West.

5. The _____________ was written so that Kansas could only apply for statehood by permitting slavery. Lecompton Constitution

6. _____________ in the 1850s were known for their anti-Catholic and anti-foreign attitudes. Nativists

7. Which was NOT a reason secessionists supported leaving the Union * they were dismayed by the success of the Republican party. * they believed that the North would not oppose their departure. * the political balance seemed to be tipping against them. * they were tired of abolitionist attacks. * they believed that Republicans had been infiltrating their political ranks.

8. Name an advantage that the Border States offered a large population. a good supply of horses and mules. valuable manufacturing capacity. large navigable rivers.

9. Of all the hardships faced by the soldiers during the Civil War, according to your text book the greatest was disease.

10. The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its economy.

11. A supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantage was intervention from Britain and France.

12. The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the Alabama.

13. During the Civil War, _______ in the North had new opportunities opened to them in industry. women

14. The Union's defeat in battle at ________ in 1861 was better than a victory because the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war. Bull Run

15. The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from the _____________. Merrimack

16. Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment.

17. During the Civil War, blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

18. The Battle of _________ was significant because Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed. Gettysburg

19. The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in education.

20. The controversy surrounding the ___________ and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress. Wade-Davis Bill

21. ____ believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, "conquered provinces" that had to seek readmission on whatever terms Congress demanded. Congressional Republicans

22. _________ plan for Reconstruction aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met. President Johnson's

23. What Amendment guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves? Fourteenth Amendment