Chapter 3 Homework Packet: Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1846-1877)

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Chapter 3 Homework Packet: Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1846-1877)

Directions: Answer each part of each question in COMPLETE SENTENCES, unless otherwise directed.

Section 1: The Union in Crisis (Pages 66-71)

1. What were the goals of the Free-Soil Party?

2. What was included in the Compromise of 1850 and how did it lead to conflict between the North and South?

3. How would decisions about slavery be made under popular sovereignty?

4. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act provide, and why did it inflame sectional tensions?

5. Who was included in the new Republican Party formed in 1854?

6. What did the Supreme Court rule in Dred Scott v. Sandford that outraged most northerners?

7. How did Lincoln and Douglas differ on the issue of slavery?

8. How successful was John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry? Explain.

Section 2: Lincoln, Secession, and War (Pages 72-79)

9. What caused the Democratic Party to split, and whom did each side nominate for President?

10. Fill-in the chart below about the 4 candidates for President in 1860.

Name: / Abraham Lincoln / Stephen Douglas / John Bell / John Breckinridge
Party:
Platform:

11. List the long-term causes of the Civil War.

12. List the short-term causes of the Civil War.

13. How did the Confederate constitution differ from the U.S. Constitution?

14. Using the maps on page 77, explain the relationship between the percentage of enslaved people and secession.

15. Why did the states of the Deep South leave the Union?

16. What event led to the outbreak of war?

Section 3: The Civil War (Pages 80-86)

17. What were the goals of the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War?

18. What advantages did the North have in the war?

What advantages did the South have in the war?

19. What was the Anaconda Plan and how did it work?

20. What was the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?

21. What actions were taken by the U.S. government and President Lincoln to support the ongoing fight (including finance the war, man the military, etc.)?

22. What battle marked the last time that Confederate troops invaded the North?

23. What were the goals and effects of the Union strategy of total war?

Section 4: The Reconstruction Era (Pages 87-91)

24. What was Reconstruction?

25. What was the Freedman’s Bureau and what did it do?

26. What were the Reconstruction goals of Radical Republicans?

27. Explain the 3 Civil War/Reconstruction Amendments:

13th Amendment:

14th Amendment:

15th Amendment:

28. What was included in the Reconstruction plan for the South?

29. How did the system of sharecropping work?

30. How did the influence of Radical Reconstruction in the South erode?

31. What ended Reconstruction?

32. In what ways was Reconstruction a failure?

33. In what ways was Reconstruction a success?