Name_____________________________
Date___________
Homework #s 19-28 due Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Use your notes to answer the following questions. Make sure your answers are in complete sentences. Answers should be
written in BLUE OR BLACK PEN on a separate piece of paper (Or you can type them!).
1. Define the term Manifest Destiny.
2. Why were so many Americans interested in moving out west?
3. Describe why the United States almost got into a war with England during the “54’40 or fight” crisis.
4. Identify the causes of the Mexican War
5. Evaluate the significance of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Mexican Cession for the United States of America.
6. What was the Gadsden Purchase and why was it so important in the US quest for Manifest Destiny?
7. Describe two long term causes of the Civil War.
8. Why was the American South so dependent on the use of slaves?
9. Define the term Antebellum (use the internet for this one).
10. How did Nat Turner’s slave revolt change that status of slaves in the South?
11. Define the abolitionist movement.
12. Describe two abolitionists and how they attempted to achieve their goal.
13. How do you know if a reform movement is successful?
14. When you hear the term Seneca Falls Convention, you should automatically think…
15. What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
16. Find two other reform movements that were going on around the same time as the Woman’s Suffrage movement and the
Abolitionist movement (use the internet)
17. What is meant by the term balance of power?
18. Describe the three provisions of the Missouri Compromise.
19. Describe two major provisions of the Compromise of 1850.
20. What principle was used in the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854? Was it successful?
21. How did Harriet Beecher Stowe enflame tensions between the North and South?
22. What was the decision in the Dred Scott v Sanford case? How did it impact the nation?
23. How did John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry further divide the nation?
24. Why is President James Buchannan usually voted as the worst President?
25. Describe three major facts about President Lincoln prior to his election.
26. What event was the spark that started the Civil War?
27. According to President Lincoln, why was the United States fighting the Civil War? How did he feel about secession?
28. Compare and contrast at least three advantages/disadvantages for both the North and the South during the Civil War.
29. What was the Anaconda Plan? Was it successful?
30. For the following Battles, find the dates, as well as the importance of the battle:
A. Battle of Bull Run
B. Battle of Antietam
C. Battle of Fredericksburg
D. Battle of Vicksburg
E. Battle of Gettysburg
F. Battle of Atlanta
G. Battle of Appomattox Court House
31. What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation? Was it legal?
32. How did President Lincoln violate civil liberties during the war?
33. Describe two major results of the Civil War.
34. Define the term reconstruction
35. Compare and contrast President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, to that of the Radical Republicans plan.
36. Who were the Radical Republicans? What was their primary goal?
37. Identify the three reconstruction amendments passed during this time period.
38. Describe the 40 acres and a mule program. What was the end result of this program?
39. Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached? What happened at his trial?
40. Define the term “lame duck.” How was Andrew Johnson a “lame duck” after his impeachment trial? (Internet)
41. Who was the first African American congressman elected to Congress? From what state were they elected?
42. Why was the Ku Klux Klan created? What is its status today (use internet)?
43. Describe two ways white southerners were able to keep African Americans economically dependent on them.
44. Define the term Jim Crow Laws
45. What happened with the election of 1876?
46. What event ended Reconstruction?
47. In your opinion (at least 5-and yes I will count- sentences) describe whether or not you believe that Reconstruction was a
success or a failure.