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S17 HIST 17B Study Guide 2
Sectionalism
Mason-Dixon line
Antebellum
Yeoman
Slave codes
Nat Turner
miscegenation
Great Triumvirate
Wilmot Proviso
Zachary Taylor
Free Soil Party
Steven Douglas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Filibuster
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothings
Republican Party
John C. Frémont
John Brown
Dred Scott decision
secession
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black codes
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Essay Prompts
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).