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
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1. This
quote from Jefferson Davis expresses the growing conflict between North and
South known as _____.
3. What were the goals of the Wilmot Proviso?
4. Describe
the Compromise of 1850
6. Describe
the Mexican-American War, including Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson,
Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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
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?
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?
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 _____.
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”.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
-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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