Know the significance of the following names and phrases:
Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Border strategy
Bull Run
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Trent affair
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Draft riots
William Tecumseh Sherman
Atlanta
George B. McClellan
Appomattox
John Wilkes Booth
Our American Cousin
Andrew Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Impeachment
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Congressional Reconstruction
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Redeemers
White League
Sharecropping
Segregation
Compromise of 1877
Disenfranchisement
Poll Tax
Grandfather clause
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Niagara Movement
Atlanta Exposition Address
Be able to answer the following questions:
1. What are Taney’s arguments denying Dred Scott his freedom?
2. Discuss Lincoln’s idea of democracy in the Gettysburg address?
3. What were the North’s advantages and the South’s advantages in the
Civil War?
4. What role did slavery play as a cause of and a factor in the Civil
War?
5. Compare and Contrast Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction.
6. What were the immediate and lasting effects of Reconstruction?
7. Compare the racial ideas expressed in the Atlanta Exposition Address
and the Declaration of the Niagara Movement.