Civil War Essay Test

This will be a timed, typed test. It will be taken in the computer lab. You will be asked to answer one of the following questions. Below the questions are key terms that you should familiar with. You should read over Chapter 10 in the History Alive textbook.

1. Assess the relative strengths of the North and the South at the beginning of the United States Civil War in 1861.
2. Why was compromise no longer possible between the North and the South in the United States by 1860?
3. Why, in spite of the advantages of the North over the South, did the Civil War in the United States last so long?
4. Explain the effects and contributions of three groups of people in the North and South during the Civil War.
5. For what reasons, and with what impact, did abolitionism develop in the north of the United States?

KEY TERMS:
Slavery:

• Southern Economy - "King Cotton"
• Slave Trade – African, Indigenous, and New World; Triangular Trade
• Cotton Gin
• Abolitionism
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass

Events Leading to the Civil War:

• Louisiana Purchase
• Lincoln-Douglas debates
• Nat Turner’s Rebellion
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850 - Fugitive Slave Law and California
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Kansas-Nebraska bill
• “Bleeding Kansas”
• Dred Scott
• John Brown\Harper’s Ferry

The Civil War:

• Secession
• Ft. Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Frederick Douglass
• Union
• Confederacy
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Gettysburg Address
• Total War – Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Surrender at Appomattox
• John Wilkes Booth – Assassination of Lincoln
• Military Draft 1862 (c), 1863 (u)
• Draft Riots
• Copperheads
• Confederate Embargo
• Rifled Musket
• Disease, Infection, and Amputation
• 54th Massachusetts Regiment
• Freedmen
• Clara Barton
• Red Cross
• Harriet Tubman
• Reconstruction