Sectionalism/Civil War/Reconstruction Study Guide

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

A historian would use political cartoons like this to study what event in the lead-up to the Civil War?

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to which event?

• passage of the fugitive slave law

• start of the Civil War

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• enactment of the 13th Amendment

Which government action most directly prompted the publication of this poster?

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• rejection of the Wilmot Proviso

• adoption of the Missouri Compromise

Prior to the Civil War, abolitionists reacted to the situation described in the poster by

• supporting the Underground Railroad

• opposing the Emancipation proclamation

• banning freed slaves from Northern states

• proposing a stricter fugitive slave law

Battle of Saratoga (1777)

Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

Battle of Midway (1942)

One way in which these battles are similar is that in each battle

• American forces suffered serious defeats

• large numbers of civilian casualties led to renewed peace efforts

• a United States victory was a turning point in the war

• the general in command later became president

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the Untied States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

– 14th Amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution

This Amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to

• protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons

• make it easier for immigrants to become citizens

• extend suffrage to settlers on the Great Plains

• require the federal government to pay the costs of Reconstruction

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. . . ."

– 15th Amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution, 1870

Which actions did Southern States take to keep African Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed in this Amendment?

• suspending habeas corpus and denying women the right to vote

• collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests

• establishing religious and property-holding requirements for voting

• passing Black Codes and establishing segregated schools

Speaker A: "Secession from the Union caused this war, and all those who supported it must now be punished."

Speaker B: "The nation's wounds will heal most quickly if we forgive the Southerners and welcome them back into the Union."

Speaker C: "The freedmen must be given economic assistance and guaranteed the constitutional right to protect themselves."

Speaker D: "The war may have ended, but the fight must continue to preserve the system of white supremacy in the South."

Which speakers best represent the attitudes of the Radical Republicans who controlled Congress during Reconstruction'?

• A and D

• A and C

• B and C

• B and D