Antebellum Era & Civil War Study Guide

8-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the multiple events

that led to the Civil War.

Antebellum Era

• 1) Define antebellum.• 2) Explain the impacts of the cotton gin.• 3) Describe the Missouri Compromise.• 4) Define Nationalism and Sectionalism.• 5) Who was involved in the Nullification

Crisis? What was the issue for disagreement? What was the result?

• 6) Summarize the Denmark Vesey Plot and its outcome/results.

Antebellum Era

• 7) What is an abolitionist? Provide three examples from South Carolina.

• 8) Describe the Compromise of 1850.• 9) Describe the importance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.• 10) Explain the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott

decision.• 11) Why did the Republican Party form? What were their

beliefs?• 12) Why was SC fearful of the election of Abraham Lincoln?

How did it respond?• 13) Identify the following: Unionists, Cooperationists, and

Secessionists

Civil War

• 14) Explain the advantages and strategies for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War.

• 15) Who were the major generals for the Union and the Confederacy?

Civil War

• 16) Complete the Civil War Battles Chart below

Battle Winner Significance

Fort Sumter

Port Royal

Blockade of Charleston

Fort Wagner

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Civil War

• 17) Describe the Union blockade. What are blockade runners?

• 18) Who was Robert Smalls? Describe his experience on The Planter.

• 19) What was the HL Hunley?• 20) Explain the roles and perspectives of the

following groups: African Americans, women, children, soldiers, and plantation owners.