Nt1310 Unit 5
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UNIT 5 STUDY GUIDE: CIVIL WAR, LINCOLN, RECONSTRUCTION
Directions: Answer each of the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. You do not have to answer in complete sentences, but you MUST answer what each question asks fully.
1. Define secession.
2. What were the three primary reasons that the Southern states left the Union?
3. Which 11 states seceded from the United States?
4. Of the slave states that remained in the Union, which two were most ‘pro-secession’?
5. What did the Missouri Compromise establish?
6. What act undid the Missouri Compromise? Who came up with this brilliant idea?
7. Why would the Kansas-Nebraska Act cause …show more content…
What were the extraordinary powers Lincoln took upon himself during the Civil War? Why did he do this?
26. What was one of Lincoln’s boldest moves, occurring on January 1, 1863?
27. What freed all slaves of the US? When?
28. Define attrition, as in ‘war of attrition’.
29. Besides its prodigious industrial resources, what were two other ways in which the North was superior to waging a war of attrition against it?
30. Who plotted the murder and carried out the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
31. Why did John Wilkes Booth switch from plotting Lincoln’s kidnapping to improvising his murder?
32. What kind of opportunities did Booth take advantage of the day Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater?
33. Who were Booth’s co-conspirators and what were their roles in the assassination plot?
34. How did Lewis Powell attack Secretary of State William Seward?
35. What did George Atzerodt do to Vice President Andrew Johnson?
36. What show did the Lincolns go see at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865? Who was supposed to accompany them and who replaced them at the last minute?
37. Describe the assassination of Lincoln, from Booth approaching his theater box, to his death approximately 9 hours later.
38. Who was the first woman ever put to death by the US
Hour:_______
UNIT 5 STUDY GUIDE: CIVIL WAR, LINCOLN, RECONSTRUCTION
Directions: Answer each of the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. You do not have to answer in complete sentences, but you MUST answer what each question asks fully.
1. Define secession.
2. What were the three primary reasons that the Southern states left the Union?
3. Which 11 states seceded from the United States?
4. Of the slave states that remained in the Union, which two were most ‘pro-secession’?
5. What did the Missouri Compromise establish?
6. What act undid the Missouri Compromise? Who came up with this brilliant idea?
7. Why would the Kansas-Nebraska Act cause …show more content…
What were the extraordinary powers Lincoln took upon himself during the Civil War? Why did he do this?
26. What was one of Lincoln’s boldest moves, occurring on January 1, 1863?
27. What freed all slaves of the US? When?
28. Define attrition, as in ‘war of attrition’.
29. Besides its prodigious industrial resources, what were two other ways in which the North was superior to waging a war of attrition against it?
30. Who plotted the murder and carried out the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
31. Why did John Wilkes Booth switch from plotting Lincoln’s kidnapping to improvising his murder?
32. What kind of opportunities did Booth take advantage of the day Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater?
33. Who were Booth’s co-conspirators and what were their roles in the assassination plot?
34. How did Lewis Powell attack Secretary of State William Seward?
35. What did George Atzerodt do to Vice President Andrew Johnson?
36. What show did the Lincolns go see at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865? Who was supposed to accompany them and who replaced them at the last minute?
37. Describe the assassination of Lincoln, from Booth approaching his theater box, to his death approximately 9 hours later.
38. Who was the first woman ever put to death by the US