Study Guide for Test over Standard SS8H6
1. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election because of the Democratic Party split.
2. The Republican Party was formed in 1854 on the basis of stopping the spread of slavery.
3. Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge and John Bell ran against Lincoln in the election of 1860.
4. Henry Clay proposed the Tariff of 1833, Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
5. Popular sovereignty is the idea that residents are allowed to decide issues for themselves.
6. The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of the Compromise of 1850.
7. Cooperationists wanted a compromise between the north and the south….they did not want to secede.
8. Andersonville was home to one of the Civil War’s most horrific prisons due to unclean water and disease.
9. Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom and was ruled against because slaves were not considered citizens according to the U.S. Constitution.
10. According to the Missouri Compromise, Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
11. No slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
12. The south’s hopes of gaining recognition and aid from England dwindled because of the Emancipation Proclamation.
13. General Lee was looking for another Victory on Union soil and to possibly put an end to the war with the Battle of Gettysburg.
14. The Fugitive Slave Act rewarded slave’s hunters for capturing blacks and sending them into slavery.
15. Abolitionists demanded an end to slavery.
16. Abraham Lincoln was a republican.
17. The belief that states could govern themselves without interference from the federal government was the idea of states’ rights.
18. Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy and Alexander Stephens was the Vice President of the Confederacy.
19. Antietam was the first major Union victory of the Civil War.
20. The capital of Georgia during the Civil War was Milledgeville.
21. After the battle of Chickamauga, General Bragg chased the Union to Chattanooga.
22. Under the black codes, freedmen could not serve on a jury or testify against a white person.
23. Cities/towns that were a part of the Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign were Dalton, Resaca, Adairsville, Cassville and Kennesaw.
24. The Anaconda Plan was designed to stop imports and exports from the Confederacy.
25. The Freedmen’s Bureau helped poor whites and blacks.
26. Freedmen were former slaves.
27. Alexander Stephens called for Georgia to remain in the Union after Lincoln’s election.
28. 13th Amendment brought an end to slavery.
29. The Military Reconstruction Acts divided the South into military districts.
30. Henry McNeal Turner was a senator, a preacher, and was never a slave.
31. Lincoln created the 10% plan which was his reconstruction plan.
32. Field Order No. 120…..the soldiers were told to live off the land.
33. Atlanta had contained many railroad lines and served as a transportation hub and that’s why Atlanta was a target for the Union army.
34. Federal troops withdrew from Georgia only to return in 1869 and they did not leave until 1872.
35. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal rights to all people born in the U.S.
36. Georgia was readmitted to the Union on July 15, 1870 when they ratified the 15th Amendment.
37. In 1865, Southern states were not allowed to rejoin the Union because the Joint Committee on Reconstruction advised against it.
38. As a direct result of the mistreatment of freedmen, Congress threatened to stop the Southern state’s from joining the Union.
39. General John Pope was in charge of Georgia during reconstruction.
40. The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist group that formed in Tennessee.
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