04/17 Sectionalism-Reconstruction Homework

Union captured the Mississippi River; divided the Confederacy in half

• Appomattox Court House
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Vicksburg

Location where Confederacy surrendered to the Union; ended the Civil War

• Appomattox Court House
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Vicksburg

Deadliest single-day battle of the war; showed Union could stand against the Confederacy

• Appomattox Court House
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Vicksburg

Turning point of the Civil War; ended any further advancement of the Confederacy

• Appomattox Court House
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Vicksburg

The best selection to complete 5 is -

• provide suffrage to African American men
• establish the Freedmen’s Bureau
• abolish the practice of slavery

The best selection to complete 6 is -

• land grants
• military drafts
• poll taxes

A historian is writing an article for a history website. The article is divided into three topics. Which era in U.S. history is the focus of this article?

• The Jacksonian era
• The antebellum era
• The Federalist era
• The Reconstruction era

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food
• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production
• By making landowners buy supplies from the government
• By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Ruled slaves were property and not citizens

• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Sectionalism

North and South agreed; California became a free state; strict fugitive slave law was passed

• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Sectionalism