AP United States History
CSS 11.1, 11.3
Unit 6 – The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877)
Chapters 16 – 17 (p. 528 – 603)
Instructions: Please write out your answers for the short answer questions on one paper. Define the vocabulary terms Cornell style 2 – 3 sentences per term.
Chapter 16 – The Civil War (1861 – 1865) p. 528 – 565
1. Anaconda Plan (541)2. Appomattox Courthouse (559)
3. Archduke Maximilian (539)
4. Clara Barton (550)
5. Battle of Antietam (542)
6. Battle of Bull Run (534)
7. Battle of Gettysburg (556)
8. Battle of Vicksburg (543, 556)
9. John Wilkes Booth (560)
10. Border border states (533)
11. cContrabands (545)
12. Copperheads (552)
13. CSS Alabama (544)
14. Emancipation Proclamation (546)
15. Ex parte Milligan (--)
16. Adm. David Farragut (543)17. Fort Pillow (548)
18. Fort Sumter (532)
19. Freedmen’s Bureau (557, 572, 582)
20. Gettysburg Address (557) / 21. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (543)
22. Homestead Act (537)
23. Laird rams (538)
24. Gen. Robert E. Lee (541)
25. Legal Tender Act (537)
26. Gen. George McClellan (541, 558)
27. Merrimack and the Monitor (545)
28. Morrill Land Grant (537)
29. Morrill Tariff (537)
30. Peninsula campaign (541)
31. William Quantrill (544)
32. Gen. William T. Sherman (545, 556, 558)
33. Special Field Order #15 (557, 572)
34. Three-Hundred Dollar Men (553)
35. Thirteenth Amendment (547)
36. Trent affair (--)
37. United States Sanitary Commission (531)
38. Rep. Clement Vallandigham (552)
39. War Democrats (552)
40. Wilderness campaign (558-559)
1. At the outset of the Civil War, what were the relative advantages of the North and the South?
2. In the absence of the southern Democrats, in the early 1860s, the new Republican Congress was able to pass a number of bills with little opposition. What do these bills tell you about the historical roots of the Republican Party? (Which groups would have supported these bills?)
3. Identify the significance of the Border States to both the North and the South, and examine how they influenced decisions of the Union and the Confederacy.
4. Why was the Confederacy never able to develop a true feeling of nationalism?
5. In what ways can it be said that the actions of African Americans, both slave and free, came to determine the course of the Civil War?
6. Discuss the effects of the Civil War on the “homefront,” North and South, including inflation and the ways the war affected women.
7. Today, Abraham Lincoln is considered one of our greatest presidents, but he did not enjoy such approval at the time. List some of the contemporary criticisms of Lincoln, and evaluate them.
Chapter 17 – Reconstruction (1863 – 1877) p. 566 – 603
42. Susan B. Anthony (579)
43. Black codes (574)
44. Carpetbagger (586)
45. Chinese Exclusion Act (593)
46. Civil Rights Act, 1866 (575)
47. Civil Rights Act, 1875 (588)
48. Compromise of 1877 (597)
49. Crédit Mobilier scandal (594)
50. Crop-lien system (590)
51. Depression of 1873 (596)
52. Electoral Commission (597)
53. Fifteenth Amendment (577)
54. Fourteenth Amendment (569, 575)
55. Gen. Oliver O. Howard (582)
56. Pres. Andrew Johnson (572)
57. Ku Klux Klan (569, 577, 588)
58. Ku Klux Klan Act (569, 588) / 59. Liberal Republicans (594)
60. Thomas Nast (594)
61. National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) (579)
62. Pacific Railway Act (593)
63. Radical Republicans (571)
64. Reconstruction Act (568, 575)
65. Redeemer governments (589)
66. Scalawag (586)
67. Sharecropping (568, 584)
68. Slaughterhouse cases (590)
69. “swing around the circle” (--)
70. Ten Percent Plan (571)
71. Tenure of Office Act (575)
72. William ‘Boss’ Tweed (594)
73. Union League (568, 585)
74. Wade-Davis Bill (571)
75. “waving the bloody shirt” (575)
76. Whiskey Ring (596)
1. What obligation, if any, did the federal government have to African Americans that it recently freed from slavery? What role did such institutions as the family, the church, the schools, and the political parties play in the African American transition to freedom?
2. What key changes did emancipation make in the political and economic status of African Americans? Discuss the expansion of citizenship rights in the post–Civil War years.
3. Why were women's rights ignored during the period of Reconstruction? What does the failure to include sex in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments suggest about the nation's commitment to equality?
4. How did white Southerners attempt to limit the freedom of former slaves? How did these efforts succeed, and how did they fail?
5. Evaluate the achievements and failures of Reconstruction governments in the Southern states.
6. What were the crucial economic changes occurring in the North and South during the Reconstruction era?
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