Practice Questions for Road to Civil War Test

1. What was the Supreme Court ruling on the Dredd Scott case?

2. What was the Fugitive Slave Act? Who was upset by it? Why?

3. List what the South gained from the Compromise of 1850.

4. Who was the Sen. of Massachusetts that sided with the South during the Compromise of 1850? How did this decision impact his political career?

5. Why did the North declare John Brown a hero after he was executed?

6. Who were the Boarder Ruffians?

7. What was the Emigrant Aid Company?

8. According to the Southern States, who was the authority to pass laws regarding slavery? How is this different from the North?

9. Why was the Missouri Compromise Declared Unconstitutional?

10. What is popular sovereignty?

Essay Example

Here are the Questions that the essay are answering:

1. Why was George B. McClellan appointed commander of the Union army?

2. What impact did McClellan have on the U.S. army? Were they successful?

3. How did McClellan lose his job as commander? What were the reasons?

Name

Mr. Mullady

U.S. History

Topic: George B. McClellan

George B. McClellan attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated second in his class. Following his graduation, McClellan served during the Mexican-American War and spent several months traveling around Europe learning new military tactics. McClellan returned to the United Stats, and soon resigned from the United States military.

When the Civil War broke out in April of 1861, McClellan reenlisted in the U.S. army and was assigned to defend Ohio from the Confederate forces. He achieved success in securing supplies for the army and was promoted for his actions. That fall, McClellan led an army into Northern Virginia and successfully defeated two Confederate forces. With this early success, McClellan was soon regarded as one of the most talented and intelligent military commanders in the Union Army.

Following the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run, Abraham Lincoln appointed McClellan commander of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan immediately began to transform the U.S. army and initiated a standard training manual for soldiers. McClellan’s army spent the next several months transforming itself into an organized fighting force.

McClellan’s reorganization of the army did not lead to success on the battlefield. After the defeats at the Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam, Abraham Lincoln began to question McClellan’s effectiveness and leadership skills. Lincoln removed McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac.

Sorry Guys...

I will give you the Model Essay on Monday in class

Research Project Advice/Checklist

**Your Assignment is Due on Friday, April 8th.**

There are 2 Parts of Your Assignment

1. You will be typing a very brief research paper that summarizes your document. Your summary will include your three research questions in it. (I will post an example online this weekend that you can uses as a guideline.)

2. You will be creating an Annotated Bibliography. This is where you are showing me how you have gathered your information from your various sources. NoodleTools is what you are using to create your annotated bibliography. In your Noodle Tools you need to have One Primary Source. For your Annotated Bibliography you need to haveThree sources.

Here is an example of a completed Annotated Bibliography that I had to make for class:

Beatty, Jack. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958) An Epic of Urban Politics and Irish America. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

This text is considered to the definitive biography on James Michael Curley. Beatty spends a great amount of time detailing the life and times of Curley. He introduces the relationships that Curley has with other Irish-American politicians of his time and how a voter’s ethnicity played a deciding factor at the ballot. This resource was very helpful in providing background information on Curley's life.

Dinneen, Joseph. The Purple Shamrock: The Honorable James Michael Curley of Boston. NewYork: W.W. Norton, 1949.

Curley authorized Joseph Dineen to write a narrative on himself. Dineen was a reporter who had covered Curley for over 30 years and at times in less than favorable light. In his work there is the image of Curley that Curley wants the public to see and embrace, serving as propaganda for upcoming elections. This was an excellent primary source to use and compare with the Beatty narrative and was very useful.

Homeroom print this out and makes sure Claire does not lost it!

Notes on John Brown

I. The Many Sides of John Brown

B. Philanthropist

1. have gave land to fugitive slaves

2. helped raise an African-American orphan

3. established a society to help runaway slaves and also financially assist those that were aiding them.

4. moved to North Elba New York, to help established a farming community for runaway slaves.

C. Fanatic

1. followed five of his sons to the Kansas Territory

2. During "Bleeding Kansas", Brown and his followers would take part in various raids and learned guerilla tactics.

3. Brown would be responsible for the deaths of five pro-slavery men in Kansas

D. Rebel or Domestic Terrorist?

1. Brown developed a plan to start an uprising of slaves in the South. Step 1: seize the arsenal in Harpers Ferry Virginia. Step 2: arm the slaves in the nearby area. Step 3: Move around the South and create chaos.

2. After two years of planning, training, and asking for money...he had only 22 men.

3. After seizing the arsenal in Harper's Ferry on October 16, 1859, he sent out some of his men to the surrounding countryside to recruit slaves, but nobody came...

4. well people did come, angry white people who wanted their arsenal back and contacted the U.S. government that rebels had seized military supplies.

5. U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee attacked Brown's forces killing two of his men and capturing the rest.

E. Define Martyr:_______________________________

1. John Brown was executed on December 2, 1859.

2. Many people in the North mourned his death, and some government buildings were draped in black.

3. Louisa May Alcott called him "Saint John the Just"

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau praised Brown in editorials

F. Traitor

1. "thinking slavery is wrong...that cannot excuse violence, bloodshed, and treason."

~ Abraham Lincoln

2. Southern Democrats claimed that Brown's actions were a clear sign of a Northern conspiracy to bring an end to slavery.

3. Many 20th Century scholars would portray Brown as a fanatic and a killer.

Quiz on Tuesday on The Road to the Civil War.

Good luck on MCAS tomorrow

Bleeding Kansas

Following the election of the Pro-slavery government, Kansas was in a state of virtual civil war. Lecompton became the home of the elected government, while a group of anti-slavery officials set up their own government in Lawrence, a town established by the New England Emigrant Society, 8 miles from Lecompton. The government of Lecompton had passed a series of laws making it illegal to speak out against slavery and viewed the people of Lawrence as traitors.

On May 21, 1856, a group of 750 men traveled from Lecompton to Lawrence hoping to arrest the "free soliers" who wanted Kansas to be a free state. The men preceded to destroy the Liberty Hotel which was the headquarters of the Free Soilers. The town was completely destroyed but the Free Soilers were able to escape before the attack began.

Throughout the following months guerilla tactics would be committed by both groups. John Brown, a New Englander who arrived in Kansas hoping to have it become a free state, led a group of seven men who murdered five people who were pro-slavery. Brown felt that slavery was an evil institution that needed to be eliminated from the United States. Brown and his men would be engaged in various other armed conflicts, at one point they captured 22 pro-slavery soldiers following a battle.

Back East, the media published various accounts of the fighting in Kansas. The headline of the New York Tribune referred to the events as "Bleeding Kansas." President Pierce did little to restore order in Kansas feeling as it was the responsibility of the Territorial Governor to bring stability to Kansas.

On July 31, 1856, Franklin Pierce appointed John W. Geary to be the new Territorial Governor of Kansas. Geary quickly set out to restore order to Kansas, promising his only allegiances were for Kansas and the United States, not the North or the South. The new governor disbanded the militia of Kansas which was responsible for much of the fighting, and brokered a peace between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces. Geary would be able to bring Kansas under control.

By the time the fighting had ceased, there would be 56 people killed and perhaps 200 people wounded from the violence. To some Americans the violence in Kansas was living proof that the country was being split from the issue of slavery and headed down a road of violence. The ineffective president, President Pierce helped create a violent situation by not intervening.

H.W.

Read pages 566-568

On page 571 answer Question 1