1. Passing the Alabama High School Graduation Exam in Social Studies

2. Week Six

3. Explain the Compromise of 1850. 
Free and Slave States would be balanced as Territories became States 

4. Define Popular Sovereignty.
People living in a territory that was to become a State could choose to be free or slave. 

5. Explain the Fugitive Slave Act.
Northern States must forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners in the South 

6. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Allowed previously free territories to choose for themselves whether to be free or slave States. 

7. The Republican Party was ___________ to the spread of Slavery.
Against
For or Against? 

8. Slaves were not Citizens; they were considered to be ________________.
Property 

9. Explain the Dred Scott Decision.
Once a Slave, always a Slave--unless freedom was given or purchased 

10. Who seized the Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown 

11. Why did John Brown seize the Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry? 
To get Guns for Slaves to lead a Rebellion 

12. What eventually happened to John Brown? He was tried for Treason
He was Captured
He was tried for Treason
He was Hanged 

13. Lincoln was against the spread of Slavery
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated Slavery. What did Lincoln say?
Lincoln was against the spread of Slavery 

14. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated Slavery
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated Slavery. What did Douglas say?
States should decide for themselves about Slavery by Popular Sovereignty 

15. Name the first State to Secede from the Union.
South Carolina 

16. The Southern Constitution was based on:
States Rights
The Right to Own Slaves 

17. Fort Sumter Charleston, South Carolina
Where were the first shots of the Civil War Fired?
Fort Sumter
Charleston, South Carolina 

18. After seceding from the United States, delegates from the Southern States met in ___________________.
Canals and Roads
Montgomery, Alabama 

19. To become a new country, the Confederate States of America
What did the delegates from the Seven Southern States decide at their meeting in Montgomery, Alabama?
To become a new country, the Confederate States of America 

20. Where was the Capital of the Confederate States of America?
Richmond, Virginia 

21. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis 

22. Name Two places which refused to secede from the Union. 
Western Part of Virginia
Winston County, Alabama 

23. Explain the Homestead Act.
You could receive 160 if you lived on the land and cultivated it for five years. 

24. Explain the Morrill Land Grant Act.
Land was given to each State just for the building of Colleges 

25. How could one avoid being drafted into the army in the North during the Civil War?
Pay $300.00
Hire a Substitute 

26. Explain the “Emancipation Proclamation”.
Only the Slaves in the South were Freed while Slavery was maintained in the bordering states loyal to the Union 

27. Washington, D. C. would have been surrounded by Confederate territory.
What would have been the situation if Maryland had seceded from the Union?
Washington, D. C. would have been surrounded by Confederate territory. 

28. Explain the right of habeas corpus.
Guaranteed that a person could not be held in prison without appearing in court. 

29.  What was important about the Battle of Vicksburg?
Ulysses S. Grant surrounded Vicksburg, Mississippi
The Mississippi River came under Union Control
The South was now split 

30. Explain Sherman’s March from Chattanooga to Savannah.
Sherman’s troops destroyed everything in a 60 mile wide path across Georgia. 

31. The Battle of Gettysburg The South began retreating 
What was the turning point of the Civil War?
The Battle of Gettysburg
The South began retreating 

32. “Four score and seven years ago
“Four score and seven years ago . . .” is the beginning of the __________________.
Gettysburg Address 

33. Who wrote and gave the Gettysburg Address? President Abraham Lincoln

34. Who was the Southern General who surrendered to the Union?
Robert E. Lee 

35. Ulysses S. Grant The Courthouse at Appomattox, Virginia 
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender and to whom did he surrender?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Courthouse at Appomattox, Virginia 

36. Abraham Lincoln wanted a ______ plan for reconstructing the South.
lenient
Lenient/Punishing
Lenient 

37. punishing Lenient/Punishing Punishing 
The Radical Republicans wanted a __________ plan for reconstructing the South.
punishing
Lenient/Punishing
Punishing 

38. More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war, but they died not from bullets but from _________ and _________.
Disease 
Infection

39. Northerners who came South after the War to get rich and do business.
Define Carpetbaggers.
Northerners who came South after the War to get rich and do business. 

40. Southerners who were sympathetic to the North and helped the North.
Define Scalawags.
Southerners who were sympathetic to the North and helped the North. 

41. What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A secret terrorist group that used violence to intimidate blacks and other minorities. 

42. Explain the Election of 1876. Electorial votes were disputed.
Democrats said that Rutherford B. Hays could be president if he ended Reconstruction. 

43. What was meant by “The Solid South”?
After the Civil War, the South always voted Democratic. 

44. President Abraham Lincoln wanted to ______________ the Union.
Preserve 

45. Name the first battle of the Civil War.
The Battle of Bull Run 

46. Define Segregate.
To Separate 

47. Explain the Literacy Test.
Jim Crow Laws stated that one must take a literacy test before they could be allowed to vote. It was designed to keep Blacks from voting. 

48. Explain the Poll Tax
Jim Crow Laws stated that one must pay a TAX before they could be allowed to vote. It was designed to keep Blacks from voting. 

49. Prevent Blacks from Voting
The Poll Tax, Literacy Test, and The Grandfather Clause were methods used to ______________________.
Prevent Blacks from Voting 

50. What geographical configuration marks the boundary between the United States of America and Mexico?
The Rio Grande 