RSJ+Expansion+Civil+War+MC+Review


 * Review Sheet for Expansion and Civil War Quiz**

__ Expansion of the United States (and its effects) __
 * 1) Know how U.S. policy toward Native Americans changed from 1787 to 1871
 * 2) Indian Removal Act (1830) and its results
 * 3) Anti-War Sentiment and the Mexican American War (reasons for opposition to the war)
 * 4) //Twelve Years a Slave// and what it said about how slaves were treated
 * 5) How the U.S. acquired Texas
 * 6) Significance of the cotton gin
 * 7) Causes of the Mexican-American War
 * 8) Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
 * 9) Manifest Destiny

__ The Road to the Civil War __
 * 1) Compromise of 1850 – what it said and which parts were most controversial
 * 2) Kansas-Nebraska Act – why it failed (be sure you know what Popular sovereignty is)
 * 3) The Crittenden Compromise and reasons for its failure
 * 4) Lincoln’s position on slavery before the outbreak of the Civil War
 * 5) Significance of the election of 1860 to the start of the Civil War
 * 6) Abolitionism – who they were and what they believed
 * 7) John Brown - importance of his failed raid

__ The Civil War and //Glory// __
 * 1) The Emancipation Proclamation
 * 2) Second Confiscation and Militia Act
 * 3) Sea Island Experiments (what it was and what ultimately happened)
 * 4) Total War strategy used by Grant and Sherman
 * 5) Three motivations used to fight the Civil War (initial, combat, sustaining)
 * 6) 54th Regiment vs. Contraband soldiers (similarities and differences)
 * 7) Frederick Douglas
 * 8) Significance of rifling in the Civil War
 * 9) Role of the following in the Civil War: Native Americans, women
 * 10) 2nd Inaugural Address and Surrender at Appomatox – how they hinted at how Lincoln would try to reunite the South (LENIENCY)
 * 11) Purpose of the Gettysburg Address
 * 12) The draft and the American Civil War
 * 13) Advantages/disadvantages of the North and South heading into the Civil War