US Comprehensive Final, Study Sheet
Who won the election of 1860?
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
How did Lincoln die? Give at least two
details.
How did Lincoln change the war with the
Gettysburg Address?
Explain why Chamberlain decided to charge.
Give at least three reasons.
Tell me at least two details about what
happened during Picketts Charge. I already
know a lot of men died and the South lost.
Describe what happened during the charge
and why the South lost.
Name at least two reasons why Lee thought
Pickett's Charge would work.
What did the 15th amendment do?
What did the 15th amendment leave out?
What three things did the 14th amendment
do?
What did the 13th amendment do?
Why did Lee decide to talk to Grant at
Appomattox?
What happened at Appomattox?
Lincoln
The man who killed Lincoln
He was shot in the back of the head at Fords
Theater
His attacker jumped onto the stage and fled
He was shot on April 14, 1865
Declared that America was dedicated to the
idea that all are created equal.
-they were almost out of ammunition
-they couldn't repel another assault because
too many of their men were dead or
wounded
-he figured the Confederates were as worn
out as they were
-he couldnt retreat because then the army
would get flanked
-Men had to walk a mile under fire
-Union troops had a stone wall to hide
behind
-Union could bring in reinforcements
-Confederates made it to the wall, but
couldnt take it
-The Union lines were weakest in the center
-The artillery barrage would weaken the
center
-15,000 men was enough to break the Union
center
Can't deny the right to vote based on race or
color
gender
birthright citizenship
due process
equal protection of the laws
banned slavery everywhere in the US
Grant had trapped Lees army
Lees men were starving
Lee surrendered to Grant, this meant the
North had won
What is the most important thing the
Emancipation Proclamation did?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation not
do?
How did the Emancipation Proclamation
change the war?
What were the two purposes of the March to
the Sea?
Which general led the "March to the Sea?"
Name two ways Grant was different from the He relentlessly pursued Lee
Union generals before him.
What event is regarded as the start of the
Civil War?
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
What happened at Fort Sumter?
What was unique about Missouri, Kentucky, They were slave states that stayed in the
Maryland, and Delaware in the Civil War?
Put these in order: the first event on the top. Lincoln elected, Lower South secedes, Fort
What was the first state to secede?
What was the Republican Party's stance on
slavery?
What did the party promise to do in the
western territories if it was elected?
Who won the election of 1864?
What event convinced the first state to
secede?
What rights are protected by the 1st
Amendment?
What are the two interpretations of the 2nd - individuals have the right to own guns
Amendment?
Which amendment protects us from law
enforcement searching our house without
permission from a judge? (warrant)
What is Judicial Review?
Turned the war into a war about slavery
It did not free slaves in loyal slave states
-It turned the war into a war about slavery
-It kept England and France out of the war
To take the war to the heart of the
Confederacy
To destroy everything of military value
Sherman
He used the North advantages: more men
and more resources
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
When Lincoln tried to resupply a federal fort,
South Carolina attacked the fort
Union
Sumter, Upper South secedes
South Carolina
Leave it alone in the South, ban it in the
territories
Ban slavery
Lincoln
Lincolns election
Religion, speech, press, assembly
- states have the right to have militias to
defend themselves
4th amendment
The power of the Supreme Court to strike
down unconstitutional laws
What part of the federal government can
veto proposed laws?
What was the main problem the American
colonists had with British taxes?
In what year was the Constitution written?
In what year did the United State declare
independence?
In what year did Columbus land in the
Americas?
Why did Columbus think he could get to Asia
by sailing west?
Was Columbus trying to prove the Earth was
round?
What kind of government does the United
States have?
What is a federal republic?
What does the 9th amendment say?
What does the 10th amendment say?
What was the Great Compromise?
What was the first permanent British colony
in North America? And when was it founded?
What is the Mexican Cession?
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
What are the two main reasons the US
declared war on Great Britain in 1812?
What does the Star-Spangled Banner
describe?
Who was the indispensable man during the George Washington
constitutional convention?
Who wrote the Bill of Rights and is
considered the Father of the Constitution?
president
The colonies were being taxed without their
consent
1787
1776
1492
He thought the Earth is smaller than it is.
No. Everyone knew the Earth was round.
Federal republic
A system of government where the central
government shares power state
governments.
Just because we listed some of our powers
doesnt mean we listed all of them.
The federal government can only do what
the Constitution says it can do.
When the convention decided that each
state would get 2 Senators and the House
would be decided by population.
Jamestown, 1607.
The part of Mexico that the US took after the
Mexican-American War.
A large piece of land that we bought from
the French for $15 million in 1803.
-The British were raiding our shipping
-They were impressing our sailors into their
navy
Francis Scott Key watching for the flag to see
if the Americans had lost at Fort McHenry
James Madison
What did the Fugitive Slave Act do? What
effect did it have in the North?
What did the Dred Scott decision say?
What effect did the Dred Scott decision
have?
What was Bleeding Kansas?
Who was John Brown?
How did some people in the North and South -In the North they saw him as a hero.
view John Brown?
What did the Cornerstone Speech say?
What was the root cause of secession and
the Civil War?
-Prescribed fines or jail time for helping
runaway slaves
-This angered people in free states
-They resisted with the Underground
Railroad and personal liberty laws
-it said that blacks couldnt be citizens
-it said that the federal constitution
protected slavery everywhere in the United
States
-it said that the federal government could
not ban slavery in western territories
-It made further compromises about slavery
in the territories impossible
-It alarmed free states because it said that
slaves could be brought into free states
A small civil war in Kansas over whether the
state would be slave or free
An abolitionist who tried to lead a slave
rebellion.
-In the South he represented radical
abolitionists
-That the Confederacy rejected the idea that
all are created equal
-That the Confederacy was founded on the
idea that blacks are not equal to whites and
that slavery is the natural and normal
condition of black people.
slavery