Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Chapter 16 Study Guide
Battles You Need To Know:
1. Fort Sumter
2. Battle of Chancellorsville
3. Battle of Vicksburg
4. Battle of Gettysburg
5. Petersburg
6. Battle of Bull Run
7. Second Battle of Bull Run
8. Port Hudson
9. Gettysburg
10. Battle of Shiloh
11. Appomattox Court House
12. Battle-of Spotsylvania Court House
Places You Need to Know:
1. Richmond, Virginia
2. Washington D. C.
People. You Need to Know:
1. Stonewall Jackson
2. General McDowell
3. Major Robert Anderson
4. Jefferson Davis
5, Robert E. Lee
6. General Ulysses S. Grant
7. General William Tecumseh Sherman
9. General McClellan
10. General Pope
Terms You Need to Know:
1. Gettysburg Address
2. Army of the Potomac
3. cotton diplomacy
4. total war
5. North’s strategy for victory
6. South’s strategy for victory
7. Advantages of the North and South at the start of the war
8. Emancipation Proclamation

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Chapter 15 Study Guide
The Election of 1860*
John Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln
John Bell
Stephen Douglas
nativists
John C. Fremont
Lecompton Constitution
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Roger Taney
segregation
popular sovereignty
free soilers
Ostend Manifesto
Pottawatomie Massacre.
Raid on Harpers Ferry*
Gadsden Purchase
Dred Scott decision*
Wilmot Proviso
Kansas-Nebraska Act*
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Lincoln Douglas debates views on race and slavery
The Freeport Doctrine
Why Southern states seceded from the Union
Fugitive Slave Act*
"Beecher's Bibles"