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US History Unit 5 Study Guide

US HISTORY COMMON ASSESSMENT V Study Guide

The New Northern majority in the Congress would make it the government of the United States an engine of Northern aggrandizement and that Northern leaders had an agenda to promote the industry of the United States at the expense of the people of the South. --Senator Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, 1840

1. This quote from Jefferson Davis expresses the growing conflict between North and South known as _____.

2. Who was Frederick Douglass?
3. What were the goals of the Wilmot Proviso?

4. Describe the Compromise of 1850

5. Describe Angelina and Sarah Grimke

6. Describe the Mexican-American War, including Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

7. Describe the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison
8. What were the results of the failed slave revolt of Nat Turner in 1831?

9. Describe the concept of “sectionalism”

10. Define “popular sovereignty”                       

11. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) heightened the sectional crisis?                                            

12. Compare the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850

13.  Describe arguments for and against the Fugitive Slave Act     
14. Describe the Dred Scott decision
15. Abolitionists in the pre–Civil War period
16. What was the goal of John Brown’s raid of Harpers Ferry?    

17. Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

18. When the Civil War started, what was Abraham Lincoln’s primary objective?

19. Why was President Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus controversial?

20. Why did the North want to capture Atlanta during the Civil War?

21. A soldier at Fort Sumter in 1861 would have been concerned by news of _____.

22. What were the results of the Battle of Antietam?

23. Describe the Battle of Gettysburg

24. Which Civil War battle was significant in that the Union army was able to halt Robert E. Lee’s invasion of the north?

25. The Confederate army received a terrible and perhaps mortal blow to its leadership with the accidental death of what general in 1863?

26. Which factors provided a military advantage during the U.S. Civil War?

27. Ulysses S. Grant’s early success came in the western theater of war, particularly in the successful 1863 siege of what city?

28. The Emancipation Proclamation was announced after the Battle of _____.

29. The two critical battles of July, 1863, which signaled defeat for the Confederacy
30. The main disadvantages faced by the South during the Civil War                          

31. The Civil War has been referred to as a “total war.”  Keeping with the context of the time, what did this mean for the North and the South? 

32. African American soldiers during the Civil War 

33. Describe the North’s rapid economic growth during the Civil War

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with fairness 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 lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations”.

We, …the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.

Fourscore 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.”  1863

Sherman believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy’s strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken.  Sherman therefore applied the principles of scorched earth: he ordered his troops to burn crops, kill livestock, consume supplies, and destroy civilian infrastructure along their path.

Negroes, whether slaves or free, that is, men of the African race, are not citizens of the United States by the Constitution.  The legal condition of a slave in the State of Missouri is not affected by the temporary sojourn of such slave in any other State, but on his return his condition still depends on the laws of Missouri. As the plaintiff was not a citizen of Missouri, he, therefore, could not sue in the Courts of the United States.  The suit must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

It is neither a reflection on the fidelity, nor a disparagement of the ability of our friends and fellow-laborers, to assert what "common sense affirms and only folly denies," that the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand redress... and that he who has endured the cruel pangs of Slavery is the man to advocate Liberty. It is evident we must be our own representatives and advocates, not exclusively, but peculiarly—not distinct from, but in connection with our white friends. In the grand struggle for liberty and equality now waging, it is meet, right and essential that there should arise in our ranks authors and editors, as well as orators, for it is in these capacities that the most permanent good can be rendered to our cause.
-From The North Star, 1847

Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!" To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July!

      -Speech, 1852

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Survey

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Continue Unit 5. Test December 7, 2016

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Extra Credit- All Classes

Presidents 1848-1856

Watch and Answer questions. Stop when finished.
1.       Why was Zachary Taylor appealing to the north and the south?
2.       How did Zachary Taylor change over his presidency?
3.       Describe the purpose of the Milliard Fillmore Society.
4.       Why did Milliard Fillmore oppose abolition?
5.       Why was Franklin Pierce appealing to the north and the south?
6.       Why was Franklin Pierce reviled by all at the end of his presidency?
7.       Why is James Buchanan considered the worst president?
8.       How did James Buchanan favor the South?

Due Tuesday 3:30pm.
25 points on Major Grade
Answers must be complete and accurate

APUSH Homework

Remember your assignment for Monday. Read 2 articles about the Harper's Ferry Raid. Pick two with opposing views on the event. Also, study the Vocabulary for the quiz Friday

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US History
We will test on Unit 4 Monday. We will begin Unit 5 Wednesday. Notebook 4 needs to be graded this week and you have a Vocabulary quiz Friday

APUSH
We will continue Period V this week with notes and vocabulary on Causes of the Civil War. We will have a Vocabulary Quiz over important people on 11-18