AP U.S. History
Period Five, 1844-1877
Unit 4: Sectional Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction
Required Reading: Pageant Chapters 17-23, AMSCO Chapters 12, 13, 14 & 15, or
Henretta Chapters 12-15
Unit Test Dates: JANUARY 21 AND JANUARY 22, 2016
***DBQ will be about Reconstruction know it well.
Recommendations: Reading the textbook is a must. In addition to the textbook reading, there are some
recommended strategies to use in addition to the text. Choose one, two or all. Some are even worth Bonus
Points on the exam. AMSCO READING GUIDES ARE ON THE WEBSITE UNDER AMSCO READING GUIDES. THEY ARE
OPTIONAL BUT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. THEY MUST BE TURNED IN ON THE DAY OF THE EXAM FOR BONUS
POINTS.
Outside Strategies for unit content acquisition:
Quizlet
Reading AMSCO
Crash Course Videos
Cengage Lecture Point
Schmoop
Study Groups
Completing Reading guides with AMSCO
Watching/Listening to Gilder-Lerhman Review
Hippocampus
Jocz Youtube Vids
Ramirez website
HENRETTA
Chapter 12: chattel principle, “positive good” argument, slave society, Alamo, Stephen Austin, Sam
Houston, Santa Anna
Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny, Californios, “Fifty-four, forty or fight!”, Wilmot Proviso, free-soil movement,
squatter sovereignty, forty-niners, Compromise of 1850, Gadsden Purchase, Kansas-Nebraska Act, KnowNothing Party, “Bleeding Kansas”, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Freeport Doctrine, James K. Polk, Frederick
Douglass, Zachary Taylor, Stephen Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown
Chapter 14: Crittenden Compromise, total war, draft, habeas corpus, King Cotton, contraband, Radical
Republicans, Emancipation Proclamation, March to Sea, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee,
George McClellan, Ulysses Grant, William T. Sherman, First Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg,
Appomattox Courthouse
Chapter 15: Ten Percent Plan, Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, Wade-Davis Bill, Black Codes,
Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14th Amendment, Reconstruction Act of 1867, 15th
Amendment, sharecropping, scalawags, carpetbaggers, Civil Rights Act of 1875, laissez-faire,
“Redemption”, KKK, Enforcement Laws, Slaughter-House Cases, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Academic Vocabulary
Crash Course Videos
War & Expansion
Slavery
Election of 1860
Civil War I
Civil War II
Battles of the Civil War
Reconstruction
Afterschool Tutoring every Monday and Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00. Transportation
provided.
Monday
11/30
Tuesday
12/1
Thanksgiving Break
Reading Assignment Quiz
(Pageant Chapter 18 and
pages 400-403, AMSCO
Chapter 12 or Henretta
pages 406-428 and 391-395)
Nativism and Irish Manifest
Immigration
Document
Analysis
Manifest Destiny Lecture &
Historical Analysis
HW: (OPTIONAL) The New
Manifest Destiny Picture
Project Read Chapters 18 of
Pageant or 13 of Henretta
(pages 406-428 and 391-395)
& Chapter 8 of Zinn & Do
Immigrants Endanger
America? (Read and
Annotate)
HW:
(OPTIONAL) The
New Manifest
Destiny Picture
Project & Read
Chapters 18 of
Pageant or 13 of
Henretta &
Chapter 8 of Zinn
12/7
12/8
DUE: (OPTIONAL) Manifest
Destiny Picture Project Due
Drifting Towards
Civil War Lecture
(CH. 13 of
Henretta and
19&20 of
Pageant)
Enlarging the Nation-State
Chart/Map and Short
Response
Wednesday
12/2
Thursday
12/3
Friday
12/4
MexicanAmerican War
Video &
Discussion
Mexican-American
War
HW: Read Chapter
17 in Pageant or
Chapter 12 in
Henretta
HW: Read
Chapters 18 of
Pageant or 13 of
Henretta and
Chapter 8 of
Zinn and War
with Mexico
Documents
(Read and
Annotate)
HW: Read
Chapters 18 of
Pageant or 13
of Henretta and
Chapter 8 of
Zinn
12/9
12/10
12/11
Slavery in the
Making of
America Part
III
Slave Narratives
Slave Graphs
HW: Read
Henretta 13B
(Pages 428-440)
or Pageant
(Chapters 19 &
20)
HW: Read Henretta
13B (Pages 428-440)
or Pageant (Chapters
19 & 20)
HW: Read
Henretta 13B
(Pages 428440) or
Pageant
(Chapters 19 &
20)
HW: Read Chapter 17 in
Pageant or Chapter 12 in
Henretta
HW: Read
Henretta 13B
(Pages 428-440)
or Pageant
(Chapters 19 &
20)
12/14
12/15
12/16
12/17
12/18
Henretta 13 B Quiz (or
Pageant 19&20 Quiz)
Who Freed the
Slaves? Day Two
Who Freed the
Slaves? Day
Three
Civil War
Lecture (Ch.
14 of Henretta
and 20&21 of
Pageant)
Abraham Lincoln
Funeral and Eulogies
Who Freed the Slaves? Day
One
HW: Read Chapter 14 of
Henretta (Or 21&22 of
Pageant)
HW: Read
Chapter 14 of
Henretta (Or
21&22 of
Pageant)
HW: Read
Chapter 14 of
Henretta (Or
21&22 of
Pageant)
HW: Read
Chapter 14 of
Henretta (Or
21&22 of
Pageant)
HW: Read Chapter
14 & 15 of Henretta
(Or 21&22&23 of
Pageant)
1/11
1/12
1/13
1/14
1/15
Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War as
Turning Point in
American History
Timeline
Civil War as
Turning Point
in American
History
Timeline
Civil War
Quiz (Ch. 14
of Henretta or
21&22 of
Pageant)
Radical
Reconstruction
HW: Read Ch. 15 of Henretta
or 23 of Pageant
HW: Read Ch. 15
of Henretta or 23
of Pageant
1/18
1/19
NO SCHOOL MLK DAY
Sharecropping
HW: Read Ch. 15 of Henretta
or 23 of Pageant
HW: Read Ch. 15
of Henretta or 23
of Pageant
HW: Read Ch. 15 of
Henretta or 23 of
Pageant
HW: Read Ch.
Reconstruction
15 of Henretta
Lecture
or 23 of Pageant
HW: Read Ch.
15 of Henretta
or 23 of
Pageant
1/20
1/21
1/22
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