American History 1301-8502
Chapter 13-16 Study Guide
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Chapter 13
“Young America”
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Manifest Destiny
“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”
Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Alamo
San Jacinto
Stephen Austin
Santa Anna
Sam Houston
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
John C. Fremont
Samuel Morse
Elias Howe
Charles Goodyear
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Chapter 14
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
Know-Nothings
Dred Scott v. Stanford
Ostend Manifesto
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Lecompton Constitution
Republican Party
Charles Sumner & Preston Brooks
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Brown – Harper’s Ferry
John Breckinridge
Chapter 15
Montgomery Convention
Crittenden Plan
Secession
Union
Confederacy
Civil War 1861-1865
Fort Sumter
“Total War”
Anaconda Plan
“King Cotton Diplomacy”
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
Merrimack and Monitor
New York City draft riots
Copperheads
Manassas – Bull Run
Antietam
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Atlanta
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
General McClellan
General Robert E. Lee
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Sherman
Chapter 16
Jim Crow Laws
10% Plan
Freedman’s Bureau
Wade-Davis Bill
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Radical Republicans
Impeachment
First Reconstruction Act
Carpetbaggers / Scalawags
Compromise of 1877
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
“Redeemers” and “New South”
Plessy v. Ferguson
John Wilkes Boothe
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Essay Questions
Chapter 13:
1. What factors lured Americans to the
Far West – California, New Mexico,
Oregon, and Utah – from the 1820s
through the 1840s?
2. Describe the main concepts of the
doctrine of Manifest Destiny and
how the guided American policy
from the 1820s through the 1850s.
Chapter 14:
1. Discuss the major elements of the
Compromise of 1850 and how they
were an attempt to balance the
requirements of pro and antislavery
factions in the United States?
2. What incidents and events increased
southern fears concerning growing
northern hostility toward the
southern way of life? How correct
was the South in these fears?
Chapter 15:
1. When the war started in 1861, both
sides were confident that the conflict
would be short. What made the Civil
War a prolonged, bloody conflict
instead of the brief “skirmish” all
had anticipated?
2. Compare the advantages and
disadvantages of the North and the
South in the Civil War. Was a
northern victory inevitable? Why or
why not?
Chapter 16:
1. How did freed slaves react to their
new status after the Civil War? What
did African Americans soon realize
about the reality of their freedom?
2. In the early 1870s, it was evident that
Northern interest in Reconstruction
was decreasing. Why? Were the
majority of Northerners really
dedicated to reconstructing the
Southern society? Why were
Redeemers able to take back the
South?