Monday, May 27, 2013

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 5, 2013

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"