Civil War REVIEW: From Causes to Reconstruction

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1. What was the outcome of the Missouri Compromise? Compromise of 1850?

2. What three main issues divided the North and South?  What is a tariff?

3. What was the North’s economy dependent upon?  the South’s?

4. Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

5. What happened during Bleeding Kansas?

6. How did Southerners justify secession?

7. Identify the states of the Confederacy.  Who was Jefferson Davis?  Where was the Confederate capital?

8. Describe the advantages of both the Union and Confederate armies.

9. Who was the leader of the Confederate army? Union army?

10. At which battle did the Confederacy respond with a “rebel yell"?

11. At which battle did the North surround the South by land and water?

12. In which two battles did the South attempt to invade the North?

13. Which battle is considered to be the turning point of the war?

14. What were total war tactics?

15. Where did the surrender take place?

16. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

17. What was the role of African Americans in the war?  Of women?  Who was Clara Barton?

18. What was the Gettysburg Address?

19. What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?  What was his attitude towards the South?

20. Who was John Wilkes Booth?

21. What were the conditions of the draft in the Civil War?

22. What is a carpetbagger?

23. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?