Unit 6 Review Guide—Civil War, Reconstruction, The West
Civil War
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
First Battle of Bull Run
George B. McClellan
Benjamin Wade
National Women’s Loyal League
Clara Barton
Alexander Stephens
John Bell
Conscription Act
National Draft Law
Merrimac
Monitor
Trent Affair
Battle of Shiloh
Antietam
Stonewall Jackson
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
William T. Sherman
March to the Sea
Bonds
Habeas corpus
Appomattox Courthouse
Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
John Wilkes Booth
Presidential Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Black Codes
First Civil Rights Act
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Congressional Reconstruction
15th Amendment
Tenure of Office Act
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Civil Rights Act of 1875
40 acres and a mule
Crop Lien system
Horace Greeley
Credit Mobilier
Whiskey Ring
Panic of 1873
Greenbacks
Seward’s Folly
Ku Klux Klan
Compromise of 1877
New South
Tenants and Sharecroppers
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
Jim Crow
Plessey v. Ferguson, 1896
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Laws
Lynching’s
The West
Plains Indians
Californios
Barrios
Homestead Act
Chisholm Trail
“Rocky Mountain School”
Frederick Jackson Turner
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Sand Creek Massacre
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
George A. Custer
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
“Ghost Dance”
Wounded Knee
Dawes Severalty Act
Assimilation
Helen Hunt Jackson
Buffalo Bill
Essay Questions
“The South never had a chance to win the Civil War.” To what extent and why do you agree or disagree with
this statement.
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the
white and black races.” How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862
Emancipation Proclamation?
Unit 6 Review Guide—Civil War, Reconstruction, The West
To what extent was President-elect Lincoln responsible for the defeat of the Crittenden Proposal on the
territorial expansion of slavery?
How do you account for the failure of Reconstruction (1865-1877) to bring social and economic equality of
opportunity to the former slaves?
In what way, and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount
to a revolution?
Although the economic development of the Trans-Mississippi West is popularly associated with hardy
individualism, it was in fact largely dependent on the federal government. Assess the validity of this
statement with specific reference to western economic activities in the nineteenth century.
How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by
technological developments and government actions?