1. Developing Crisis – Civil War – Reconstruction Quiz topics

2. Developing Crisis Missouri Compromise (1820) Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Kansas – Nebraska Act (1854)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
Presidential Election of 1860

3. Civil War - Advantages & Strategies of the North and South
- Fort Sumter
- Stonewall Jackson and Bull Run
- Battle of Antietam
- Emancipation Proclamation
- 54th Massachusetts
- Clara Barton
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Sherman’s March to the Sea
- Appomattox Court House

4. Reconstruction Reconstruction Era
Refers to the time period after the Civil War and the admission of Southern states back into the Union
Freedmen’s
Bureau
This was established by Congress to help former slaves with food, clothing and medical care
Black
Codes
Southern states passed these to regulate freedmen’s lives. It was illegal for freedmen to hold public office or serve on juries. Any freedman found without a job could be jailed.
13th
Amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States
14th
Amendment
Granted citizenship to all freedmen / former slaves

5. 15th
Amendment
Granted voting rights to former male slaves
Hiram Rhodes Revels
The first African – American to serve in the U.S. Senate - from Mississippi.
Sharecropping System
Replaced slavery in the south. Former plantation owners provide livestock, tools and land to freedmen in exchange for a share of the crops grown. Some freedmen paid rent to use the land.
Homestead
Act
To encourage economic growth and expansion in the West, Congress passed this Act which gave any citizen 160 acres of government land if they build a home and raised crops for 5 years.
Morrill
The federal government gave each state land to sell in order to fund public colleges
Dawes
Out west tribal lands were divided among the members of the tribe. Each Native American family was given 160 acres of farmland. Any extra was sold to the whites.