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Period 5 Full Test Topics
- Know Nothing Party
- Compromise of 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 - Dred Scott Decision - Antietam - Emancipation Proclamation - 13th Amendment - 14th Amendment - 15th Amendment - Lincoln’s vision for reconstruction |
- Colonization
- Emancipation Proclamation - Women in the Civil War- Peace Democrat - Civil Rights Bill of 1866 - Johnson’s Impeachment - Sharecropping system and plight of freedmen - Slaughter House Cases - End of Reconstruction - Jim Crow laws - Rise of KKK |
Period 5 (First Half) Test Topics
Immigration (Mexican-American, Asian, Irish, and German)
Slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Kansas – Nebraska Act Wilmot Proviso Charles Sumner Caning Dred Scott Decision Lincoln / Douglas Debates John Brown John C. Calhoun – Slavery as a “Positive Good” Daniel Webster and the Compromise of 1850 Uncle Toms Cabin |
Period 5 (Second Half) Test Topics
- Gettysburg Address - meaning
- Black Codes - 13th Amendment - 14th Amendment - 15th Amendment - Lincoln’s vision for reconstruction - Emancipation Proclamation |
- Johnson’s Impeachment
- Sharecropping system and plight of freedmen - Slaughter House Cases - End of Reconstruction - Jim Crow laws - Rise of KKK - Post Reconstruction period |
Crash Course US History # 13 Focus Questions
1. How was slavery intertwined with the Market System? What ways did the north fuel / benefit from slavery?
2. How did the slave based economy effect the South’s development?
3. Describe the “yeomen farmer” and explain why they tolerated / supported slavery.
4. What arguments did Southerners make to say Slavery was a good thing?
5. In what ways did slaves resist the dehumanizing effects of slavery?
2. How did the slave based economy effect the South’s development?
3. Describe the “yeomen farmer” and explain why they tolerated / supported slavery.
4. What arguments did Southerners make to say Slavery was a good thing?
5. In what ways did slaves resist the dehumanizing effects of slavery?
Crash Course US History #16 Focus Questions
1. What groups or causes were women fighting for in the 19th century?
2. Explain the concept of “Republican Motherhood” and its results on education opportunities for women.
3. Describe the "cult of domesticity"
4. What issue most encouraged women to push of suffrage rights?
5. What was the Seneca Fall Conventions and what was produced at this convention?
2. Explain the concept of “Republican Motherhood” and its results on education opportunities for women.
3. Describe the "cult of domesticity"
4. What issue most encouraged women to push of suffrage rights?
5. What was the Seneca Fall Conventions and what was produced at this convention?
Crash Course US History # 18 Focus Questions
Compromise of 1850
- What were the components of the Compromise of 1850
- who were biggest supports
- what portion of the compromise especially troubled the north and why?
Kansas – Nebraska Act
- What was the Kansas – Nebraska Act?
- What effect s did the Kansas and Nebraska Act have on the political party structure?
- What was “Bleeding Kansas”? How did Kansas settle the slavery vs. free state issue?
Dred Scott Decision
- Who was Dred Scott, what was his argument, how did the Supreme Court Rule and what was the effect of the decision?
John Brown
- Who was John Brown?
- What did he do in Kansas and at Harpers Ferry?
- What was Brown’s role in bring about the Civil War?
Election of 1860
- Who ran for President in 1860 and where did they stand on the major issues of the day?
- What impact did the election of 1860 have on the sectional crisis?
- What were the components of the Compromise of 1850
- who were biggest supports
- what portion of the compromise especially troubled the north and why?
Kansas – Nebraska Act
- What was the Kansas – Nebraska Act?
- What effect s did the Kansas and Nebraska Act have on the political party structure?
- What was “Bleeding Kansas”? How did Kansas settle the slavery vs. free state issue?
Dred Scott Decision
- Who was Dred Scott, what was his argument, how did the Supreme Court Rule and what was the effect of the decision?
John Brown
- Who was John Brown?
- What did he do in Kansas and at Harpers Ferry?
- What was Brown’s role in bring about the Civil War?
Election of 1860
- Who ran for President in 1860 and where did they stand on the major issues of the day?
- What impact did the election of 1860 have on the sectional crisis?
Crash Course #20 Focus Questions
What slave states didn’t leave the Union and why were they important?
What advantages did the Union have in the War? What was the South’s advantage?
What problems did the South have to overcome?
Was the outcome of the Civil War inevitable? Why or Why not?
What advantages did the Union have in the War? What was the South’s advantage?
What problems did the South have to overcome?
Was the outcome of the Civil War inevitable? Why or Why not?
Crash Course # 21 Focus Questions
- Did Lincoln free the slaves? Explain how he did and how he did not "free the slaves".
- How and why did the Civil War change America's relationship with death?
- What was the most important impact of the of the Civil War? Identify and explain notable changes that the Civil War
facilitated.
- How and why did the Civil War change America's relationship with death?
- What was the most important impact of the of the Civil War? Identify and explain notable changes that the Civil War
facilitated.
Crash Course #22 Focus Questions
- What were Andrew Johnson's 3 guiding principles for Reconstruction and society in the South?
- Describe Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan.
- What was "sharecropping" and how did it compare to slavery?
- What was "Radical Reconstruction" and how did if differ from Andrew Johnson's plan?
- What were the main acheivements of Republican Governments in the South?
- Describe Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan.
- What was "sharecropping" and how did it compare to slavery?
- What was "Radical Reconstruction" and how did if differ from Andrew Johnson's plan?
- What were the main acheivements of Republican Governments in the South?
Crash Course #24 Focus Questions
- Explain how did the Rail Roads make Western Settlement possible?
- What was the Dawes act and how did it change the relation between Native Americans and the US government. What its overall impact on Native Americans positive or negative - Why?
- Explain the phrase "Kill the Indian - Save the Man"
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- What was the Dawes act and how did it change the relation between Native Americans and the US government. What its overall impact on Native Americans positive or negative - Why?
- Explain the phrase "Kill the Indian - Save the Man"
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