U.S. History Unit 5 EOCT Study Guide
1. SSUSH9: The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the
causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.
Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case,
and John Brown’s Raid.
1. What were the major components of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
2. What was popular sovereignty? Why did it fail?
3. What was the Dred Scott Case? How did it affect slavery?
4. What was John Brown’s raid? How did it affect views on slavery?
Describe President Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union as seen in his second
inaugural address and the Gettysburg speech and in his use of emergency powers,
such as his decision to suspend habeas corpus.
5. Describe the main points in Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
6. Describe the main points and effects of the Gettysburg Address
7. What are emergency powers? How did Lincoln use them?
8. What is Habeas Corpus? Why did Lincoln suspend it?
Describe the roles of Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, William T.
Sherman, and Jefferson Davis.
9. What were the Civil War roles of:
- General Grant
-General Lee
-General “Stonewall” Jackson
-General Sherman
-President Jefferson Davis (CSA)
Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and the
Battle for Atlanta.
10. What was the significance of the following places?
- Fort Sumter?
-Antietam?
-Vicksburg?
- Gettysburg?
-Atlanta?
Describe the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
11. What was the Purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
12. How did it change the purpose of the war?
Explain the importance of the growing economic disparity between the North and the
South through an examination of population, functioning railroads, and industrial output.
13. What were the differences between the North and South in the following areas:
- Population
- Railways
- Industrial output
SSUSH10: The student will identify legal, political, and social dimensions of
Reconstruction.
Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical Republican
Reconstruction.
14. What were the major differences between reconstruction plans coming from the President
and the Radical Republicans?
Explain efforts to redistribute land in the South among the former slaves and provide
advanced education (e.g., Morehouse College) and describe the role of the Freedmen’s
Bureau.
15. What methods were used to redistribute land to former slaves and provide education
16. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? What was its significance?
Describe the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
17. What was the 13th amendment? How did it change America?
18. What was the 14th amendment? How did it change America?
19. What was the 15th amendment? How did it change America?
Explain Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality
during Reconstruction.
20. What are the Black Codes? Why were they created?
21. What was the KKK? What were their major objectives?
22. What other forms of resistance were used to stop racial equality during Reconstruction?
Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relationship to Reconstruction.
23. Why did congress attempt to impeach Johnson?
24. Why did they fail to remove him from office?