U.S. History Semester Exam Review: Units 1 & 2

Each state should be able to decide their issues for themselves and the Federal Government should not interfere.

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

The states that left the Union called themselves the...

• Non-union States of America
• Southern States of America
• Confederacy
• Imperialist

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

More factories, population, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• reasons for a Confederate victory
• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending their own homes, and not having to go on the attack were

• Union advantages
• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

The place where Confederate cannons opened fire thus starting the Civil War

• Sherman's March to Sea
• Gettysburg
• Atlanta Campaign
• Fort Sumter

Why did South Carolina secede from the Union?

• They thought Lincoln would free their slaves
• Wanted to make laws to fit their states needs
• They were trying to hold onto their way of life
• all of the above

What was the main issue that divided the nation and led to the Civil War?

• westward expansion
• tariffs
• slavery
• foreign affairs

Reconstruction came to an end when –

• the Black Codes were adopted.
• a compromise took place over the 1876 election.
• Lincoln was elected President.
• Congress proposed the 13th Amendment.

Why were Black Codes made?

• To give African Americans the right to vote
• To keep white supremacy in place
• Made it illegal for whites and blacks to use the same facilities
• Jim Crow laws Pt. 2