Chapter 3
Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1846-1877
1. Define each term and briefly explain its connection to crisis, civil war, and
reconstruction in the United States from 1846-1877.
a. Wilmot Proviso
l. de jure segregation
b. Free-Soil Party
m. cash crop
c. popular sovereignty
n. Civil Rights Act of 1875
d. John Brown
o. poll tax
e. Crittenden Compromise
p. literacy test
f. Anaconda Plan
q. grandfather clause
g. habeas corpus
r. segregation
h. inflation
s. Americanization
i. total war
t. Niagara Movement
j. reconstruction
u. NAACP
k. impeachment
2. Explain the following congressional pieces of
legislation and describe each affected slavery from
a political perspective in the United States from
1820-1854
a. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
b. Compromise of 1820
c. Compromise of 1850
d. Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
3. How did northerners and southerners react to the
Dred Scott decision?
4. Explain how Lincoln and Douglas differed on the
slave issue.
5. How did the Election of 1860 affect the South?
Why? What was created as a result?
6. Identify the Emancipation Proclamation and explain its impact on the United States.
7. What is the central message of the Gettysburg Address?
8. Identify the Radical Republicans and explain two of their goals for reconstruction.
9. Summarize the major rights issued
in each of the following:
a. 13th Amendment
b. 14th Amendment
c. 15th Amendment
10. List four reasons Radical
Reconstruction eroded in the South.
11. List four factors that limited
economic recovery in the post-Civil
War South.
12. Explain three ways Southern Blacks
lost their civil rights after the Civil
War.
13. How did the Supreme Court Rule in
the following cases and explain how
this affected black people living in the United States:
a. Civil Rights Cases (1883)
b. Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
14. Identify the following civil rights leaders and explain their plans to get all AfricanAmericans their civil rights.
a. Booker T. Washington
b. W.E.B. DuBois
c. Marcus Garvey
d. Ida B. Wells
15. How did the Supreme Court
case Yick Wo vs. Hopkins (1886) help
Chinese immigrants in the United
States? How did it hurt them?
16. How did Mexican-American
fights discrimination practiced
against them in the United States?