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S15 HIST 17B Study Guide 2
Mason-Dixon line
Antebellum
Yeoman
Slave codes
miscegenation
Great Triumvirate
Alexis de Tocqueville
Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
Wilmot Proviso
Zachary Taylor
Free Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothings
John C. Frémont
John Brown
Dred Scott decision
secession
fire-eaters
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Antietam
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Homestead Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Battle of Gettysburg
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Civil Rights Act 1866
Freedmen’s Bureau
black codes
carpetbagger
scalawag
sharecropping
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
impeachment
Possible Essay Questions for the second
midterm
1. What was the Compromise of 1850? Include each of the components of the compromise, and
identify who drafted it (10 points). Who was David Wilmot, and why did his proviso elicit so
much rancor? (5 points) What is the notion of ‘popular sovereignty’ as proposed by Senator
Lewis Cass? Why did it fail to address the fundamental problems of the territorial question? (10
points).
2. What was the Emancipation Proclamation, when was it issued, and by whom? (10 points) Which
slaves were not freed by this proclamation? (5 points) Explain the concept of ‘military necessity’
as it pertains to the Emancipation Proclamation. What were the President’s motives in issuing
the proclamation? (10 points)
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S15 HIST 17B Study Guide 2