Competency Goal 3.01-3.03 Review Sheet

Directions: Define the following numbered terms using your textbook’s glossary and index. Use defined terms to review essential questions of each section. You are NOT required to complete essential questions.

Competency Goal 3: Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction (1848-1877) - The learner will analyze the issues that led to the Civil War, the effects of the war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.

Objective 3.01: Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Essential Questions:

• How did the issues of sectionalism lead to the Civil War?

• How did political, economic, and social differences develop into the sectionalism that split the North and the South?

• To what extent did differing opinions on slavery as well as the institution’s expansion become a deciding factor in instituting a Civil War?

  1. Know-Nothings
  2. Abolitionist movement
  3. Slave codes
  4. Underground Railroad
  5. Harriet Tubman
  6. Free Soil Party
  7. Compromise of 1850
  8. Popular Sovereignty
  9. Fugitive Slave Act
  10. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  12. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  13. Bleeding Kansas
  14. Republican Party
  15. Brooks-Sumner Incident
  16. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
  17. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  18. John Brown and Harpers Ferry

Objective 3.02: Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.

Essential Questions:

• How did the issues of sectionalism lead to the Civil War?

• To what extent was slavery the primary cause of the Civil War?

• What did a federal union of states mean politically and socially before and after the Civil War?

  1. Election of 1860
  2. Fort Sumter, S.C.
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Jefferson Davis
  5. Confederacy

Objective 3.03: Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their significance to the outcome of the conflict.

Essential Questions:

• Why are the Battle of Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg considered the military turning points of the Civil War?

• How did the political actions of President Lincoln affect the outcome of the war?

• Was it inevitable that the North would win the war?

  1. Anaconda Plan
  2. Blockade
  3. First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
  4. Antietam
  5. Vicksburg
  6. Gettysburg
  7. Gettysburg Address
  8. Sherman’s March
  9. Robert E. Lee
  10. Ulysses S. Grant
  11. George McClellan
  12. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
  13. Strengths and weaknesses of each side (name a few per side)
  14. Writ of Habeas Corpus
  15. Copperheads
  16. Election of 1864
  17. Emancipation Proclamation
  18. Appomattox Courthouse
  19. John Wilkes Booth