U.S. History 9B Midterm Study Guide

Ch. 14 The Nation Divided

1. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

2. Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act anger many Northerners? What was the affect of the act?

3. What was the Wilmot-Proviso?

4. What was the affect of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?

5. How did Harriet Beecher Stowe help the abolitionist cause?

6. Who was John Brown?

7. What caused the South to secede?

8. What event officially started the Civil War?

9. Who became the president of the Confederacy?

Ch. 15 The Civil War

1. What was the purpose of the Crittenden Resolution?

2. What was the affect of the Emancipation Proclamation and why did Lincoln make it?

3. Who were the major generals of the Confederate and Union army?

4. Who was Clara Barton?

5. What was the 54th Infantry and what were they known for? 6. What did the North and the South have to its advantage during the Civil War?

7. What was Lincoln’s attitude towards Confederates when the war ended?

8. How were African American prisoners of war treated differently?

9. How did soldiers treat civilians?

10. How did both sides prepare for the war?

Ch. 16 Reconstruction and the New South

1. How was Radical Reconstruction different from Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

2. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

3. Why was Ulysses S. Grant a disappointment for Radical Republicans?

4. What was the difference between the Jim Crow laws and Black Codes and why were both considered legal?

5. Why were many freedmen forced to sharecrop after the Civil War?

6. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

7. How did Hayes win the election?

Ch. 17 The West Transformed

1. What was the Fort Laramie Treaty?

2. How did miners keep law and order in Boomtowns?

3. Who were the major chiefs and what tribes was each from? 4. How did Helen Hunt Jackson attempt to help the Native Americans?

5. What ritual did Native Americans use to try to bring back their ancestors and the buffalo?

6. What were the major battles between Natives and the U.S.?

7. Most of the railroad workers were from what country?

8. How did the government aid railroad companies?

9. What was the life of a cowboy like?

10. What was the purpose of the Populist Party?

11. What were the requirements for the Homestead Act?

12. What ended the cattle industry boom?

Ch.18 & 19 Industrialization and Progressive Reform

1. What problems did the following acts try to fix?

a. The Pendleton Act

b. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c. The Pure Food and Drug Administration

d. The Interstate Commerce Commission

2. Who were the two main entrepreneurs of this time period and how did they make their money?

3. Who were the muckrakers and what was each known for? 4. What amendment gave women the right to vote?

5. Who was “Boss” Tweed?

6. What is Social Darwinism?

7. Why didn’t nativists like immigrants?

8. What’s the difference between a “captain of industry” and a “robber barron?”

9. What is horizontal and vertical consolidation?