SS Grade 8

MIDTERM OUTLINE  GRADE 8

Chapter 15  Vocabulary

Border state                  Ironclad

Neutral                          Emancipate

Martial law                    Draft

Casualty                       Habeas Corpus

 

Chapter 16  VOCABULARY

Freedmen                      Impeachment

Amnesty                        Segregation

Blockade                        Poll Tax

Scalawag                       Sharecropper

Carpetbagger                 Literacy Test

 

Chapter 17   VOCABULARY        

Vigilante                          Subsidy                      

Vaquero                           Reservation

Homesteader                   Open range

Sodbuster                        Cattle drive

Grange                            Cowtown                                                        

 

TOPICS

Chapter 15

Strategies of the Union(North)

Strategies of the Confederacy(South)

Southern Advantages

Northern Advantages

Lincoln vs. Davis 

Draft Laws

Lincoln’s goal before the war

Emancipation Proclamation-What was it and how did it change the face of the war?

Copperheads

Battle of Gettysburg

Gettysburg Address

Causes and effects of the Civil War

 

Chapter 16 Topics

Lincoln’s 10% Plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Radical Reconstruction

Freedmen’s Bureau

13th,14th,15th, Amendments

Ku Klux Klan

End of Reconstruction

Jim Crow Laws

Plessy vs. Ferguson

The Election of 1876

The end of Reconstruction

 

Chapter 17 Topics

Boomtowns

Mining towns

Ghost towns

Ghost Dance

1st transcontinental railroad

Effects of western settlement

Dawes Act-Purpose and effects

Cattle industry/cattle boom

Role of the cowhand

Cow Towns

Railroads and western settlement

Homestead Act-What was it and why did it fail?

Oklahoma Land Rush(1889)  Boomers and Sooners

The closing of the frontier(1890)

Indian Wars- Sand Creek Massacre, Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn

Hard times of the farmer(Populist Party)

 

Chapter 18

Vocabulary

Assimilation   Realist entrepreneur   mass production free enterprise  yellow journalism urbanization collective bargaining  monopoly Social Darwinism

 

People(Chapters 15-18)

Jefferson Davis                                    Andrew Johnson                                                          
Thomas Edison

Clara Barton                                         Helen Hunt Jackson

John D. Rockefeller

Stonewall Jackson                               William Jennings Bryan

Andrew Carnegie

Robert E. Lee                                       Rutherford B.Hayes

J.P. Morgan                                    

Hiram Revels                                       Ulysses S. Grant

Sitting Bull

Mother Jones                                       Samuel Gompers