2111 Study Guide

1. King Cotton/Cotton trends
2. Plantation system structure/Peculiar Institution
3. Demographics of Antebellum South
4. Slave realities and passive resistance
5. William Lloyd Garrison
6. Frederick Douglass
7. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
8. William Stills and the Underground Railroad
9. Sojourner Truth
10. Harriet Tubman
11. Manifest Destiny’s influence on the extention of slavery
12. Missouri Compromise of 1820
13. Fugitive Slave laws
14. Birth of the Republican Party and the party platform
15. Popular Sovereignty
16. Free soilers
17. Compromise of 1850
18. Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
19. LeCompton Constitution
20. Bleeding Kansas (Border Ruffians, Pottawattomie Creek Massacre, Harper’s Ferry, Violence in the Senate)
21. John Brown
22. Dred Scott decision
23. Election of 1860
24. Fort Sumter
25. Southern v. Northern advantages for Civil War
26. Border States in the Civil War
27. Anaconda Plan
28. New weapons in the Civil War
29. Merrimac/Monitor
30. Union Generals
31. Southern Generals
32. First Battle/Second Battle of Bull Run
33. Fredericksburg
34. Antietam
35. Gettysburg
36. Emancipation Proclamation
37. Sherman’s March
38. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
39. Lincoln’s reeleciton and assassination
40. Legacy of the Civil War ($, fatalities, North/South relations, African Am.)
41. Andrew Johnson
42. Lincoln’s 10% Plan
43. Reconstruction Act of 1867
44. 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
45. Ku Klux Klan
46. Freedman’s Bureau
47. Black Codes
48. O.O. Howard
49. Carpetbaggers/Scalawags
50. Wade-Davis Bill
51. Johnson’s Impeachment
52. Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical Republicans
53. Seward’s Icebox
54. Uylsses S. Grant as President
55. Gilded Age politics and society
56. Election of 1876
57. Compromise of 1877
58. Legacy of Reconstruction

1. What caused and transpired in the period known as "Bleeding Kansas"? How did it increase sectionalism?

2. Describe the Underground Railroad. (Include strategies, leaders, roadblocks, and risks.)

3. How did Manifest Destiny lead to the Civil War?

4. How did events in the Antebellum period hurt the abolitionist cause? What setbacks did the abolitionist movement endure and was it a moral or political movement to end slavery?

5. How did Lincoln win the election of 1860 and why did his election (and the Republican party platform) make the Civil War a reality?

6. What were the realities for slaves in the South and free blacks in the North? How were the economies of the North and South connected?

7. Describe the leadership of the North and the South during the Civil War. Why did the leadership of both sides affect how the Civil War played out from 1861-1865?

8. How did the North win the war and were events from 1863-1865 justified?

9. Was Reconstruction a success or failure? Use specific evidence to support your answer.

10. Interpret the realities for former slaves following the Civil War through the Civil Rights movement.