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This study guide covers key resources, vocabulary, ideas, people, and events related to the Civil War and Reconstruction. It emphasizes critical thinking questions regarding the motivations of the Union and Confederacy, conditions of troops, key turning points, and the impact of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Additionally, it explores the changes in the lives of Southern African Americans during Reconstruction.

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Unit 4 Test Study Guide

This study guide covers key resources, vocabulary, ideas, people, and events related to the Civil War and Reconstruction. It emphasizes critical thinking questions regarding the motivations of the Union and Confederacy, conditions of troops, key turning points, and the impact of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Additionally, it explores the changes in the lives of Southern African Americans during Reconstruction.

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Unit 4 The Civil War and Reconstruction (Chapter 21)

Test Study Guide


Resources:
 Chapter 21: The Causes of the Civil War
 Unit 4 Classwork Packet
 Unit 4 Civil War and Reconstruction Quizlets (See LMS)
 All Bellwork, Homework, and Classwork
 See LMS for additional resources.
Key Vocabulary, Ideas, People, and Events:
 Civil War
 Border States
 Draft
 Emancipation Proclamation
 Technology
 Gettysburg
 Union Army
 President Abraham Lincoln
 The Gettysburg Address
 Confederate Army
 Confederate President Jefferson Davis
 General Robert E. Lee
 Richmond, Virginia (Confederate capital)
 Battle of Antietam (1862) (Sharpsburg, Maryland)
 Battle of Gettysburg (1863) (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
 Major General George G. Meade (Union Army; at Gettysburg)
 General George Pickett (Confederate Army; at Gettysburg)
 Technologies (Rifles, Railroads, Hot-Air Balloons, Telegraph, Ships with
Iron Plating)
 Offensive and Defensive tactics or strategies of the Civil War
 Trenches
 Artillery (Cannons)
 Bayonets
 Medical Care (anesthetics, infection, bone saws, scalpels, tourniquet,
etc.)
o Spread of disease
 Clara Barton (Founder of the American Red Cross)
 Food (Hardtack, Coffee, Chicory)
 New York City Draft Riots (1863)
 Draft Laws for Wealthy
 Women during the Civil War (teachers, nurses, secretaries, factory
workers, making equipment for the armies)
 General Ulysses S. Grant
 Vicksburg (1863) (Confederate fort by the Mississippi River)
 General William Sherman and General Sherman’s March to the Sea
 Appomattox Court House in Virginia (Defeat of General Lee at
Richmond to General Grant-- April 9th, 1865)
 Assassination of President Lincoln
 President Andrew Johnson
 Thirteenth Amendment
 Fourteenth Amendment
 Reconstruction (1865-1877)
 Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867
 The Black Codes
 Scalawags
 Carpetbaggers
 Freedmen's Bureau
 Fifteenth Amendment
 Sharecropping
 The Ku Klux Klan
 Jim Crow Laws
 Segregation
 Discrimination
 Exodusters (African-American settlement in Kansas)
 The Civil Rights Movement
 Voting Rights Act of 1965
Critical Thinking:
 Explain the motivation of the Union and Confederacy to fight the Civil
War, including their strengths and weaknesses at the onset of war.
 Be able to understand conditions of Civil War on both sides— Union
and Confederate troops.
 Understand key turning points in the Civil War. For example, why did
the Union want to control the town of Vicksburg
 Explain the central ideas of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address-- Why did
Lincoln echo the words of the Declaration of Independence in his
Gettysburg Address?
 Understand the positive and negative changes in the lives of Southern
African Americans after the Civil War during Reconstruction and draw
conclusions about whether the lives of African Americans in the South
improved after the Civil War.

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