AMERICAN HISTORY STUDY GUIDE

The Civil War Era

(1850-1877)

The test will come from the following areas:

1.      How did the issue of slavery influence expansion in the 1850s?

2.      How did other sectional conflicts influence national politics in the 1850s?

3.      What was Abraham Lincoln’s path to the White House?

4.      How and why did the South secede and form the Confederacy?

5.      How did the Civil War begin, and what were some early battles?

6.      What was life like during the Civil War?

7.      How did continued fighting turn the tide of the war?

8.      What happened in the final phase of the war?

9.      What were the differing plans for presidential Reconstruction?

10.  What was congressional Reconstruction?

11.  What happened when Radical Republicans took charge of Reconstruction?

12.  Why did Reconstruction end, and what were its effects on American history?

13.  Terms and Names:

§  PLACES and NAMES:  Abraham Lincoln, Harper's Ferry, Fort Sumter, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, Albert S. Johnston, Joeseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, George McClellan, Ambrose E. Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Joshua L. Chamberlain, J.E.B. Stuart, Emancipation Proclamation

§  Major Battles/Campaigns of the Civil War:  1^st Bull Run, The Peninsula Campaign, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Sherman's March, Appomattox

§  Reconstruction TERMS and NAMES:  Reconstruction, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Segregation, Radical Republicans, “carpet-baggers”, “Black Codes”, laws,  President Grant