VA & U.S. History Due Date – Friday, 10-16-15 Unit 6: Sectionalism & The Civil War (Chapters 8 & 9) Standards of Learning: VUS.6e & .7 This sheet is your study guide and homework for Unit 6. Studying the terms & questions below, as well as, the ability to explain the following concepts are necessary to do well on the Unit 6 Test. Remember for each term and concept to cover the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) along with the 1 H (how) when studying and answering. Identify/define the following terms & concepts and answer the homework questions on a separate sheet of paper and hand in the on the 16th. A completed study guide/home work assignment is worth 5 points on the Unit 6 Test. Key people, places and things to know & define for this unit: Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Martin Van Buren Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Tubman Bleeding Kansas Gadsden Purchase Stonewall Jackson George B. McClellan John Wilkes Booth popular sovereignty Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Kansas-Nebraska & Fugitive Slave Acts Appomattox Courthouse March to the Sea Underground Railroad Lincoln-Douglas debates Compromise of 1850 transcontinental railroad Lecompton constitution 54th Massachusetts regiment Emancipation Proclamation “Sherman neckties” 13th Amendment Know-Nothings Republican Party Freeport Doctrine Uncle Tom’s Cabin Election of 1860 Anaconda Plan Jefferson Davis Confederacy Robert E. Lee U. S. Sanitary Com. blockade runners Elizabeth Blackwell referendum martial law greenbacks conscription habeas corpus attrition bounty secession Antietam hardtack POWs siege mandate Dred Scott John Brown Fort Sumter Ulysses S. Grant Copperheads Clara Barton Pickett’s Charge foraging Union generals Gettysburg insurrection pillaged CW battles Key Concepts: 1. As simply as humanly possible, explain the Compromise of 1850. What was it designed to do? How did it add to the events leading up to the Civil War? 2. Explain why the Civil War happened? Make sure to include several precipitating factors, linking them to, or explaining them as, the causes of the war. 3. Examine issues for both sides during the war. Compare and contrast their strengths and weaknesses (specific examples & a Venn diagram would help your response). 4. What parts did the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment play in the Civil War? Make sure to consider how things would have looked without them. Home Work: Chapters 8 & 9 Assessments, pages 309-311 & pages 351-353 (41 Questions Total)