Unit Four: The United States Civil War
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854
Big Picture Questions:
1)
Explain how the issue of slavery in the territories acquired in the Mexican Cession disrupted American politics from 1848 to 1850.
What were the specific provisions of the Compromise of 1850 and how did it try to alleviate the tensions over slavery?
2)
How did the debate over slavery affect American political parties? How and why did it contribute to the demise of the Whig party
and the emergence of the Free Soil and Republican parties?
3)
What were the causes and consequences (both short and long-term) of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Identifications:
Popular sovereignty
Free Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Ostend Manifesto
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion (1854-1861)
Big Picture Questions:
1)
What were the major crises that contributed to the growing disunion of the nation? Begin with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and end
with the secession of South Carolina. Explain the significance of each crisis and how it led to disunion.
2)
Explain the major issues of the election of 1860 and the sectional tensions they revealed. Explain why Lincoln won this election
Identifications:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Lecompton Constitution
Charles Sumner vs. Preston Brooks
Dred Scott Decision
Panic of 1857
Freeport Doctrine
John Brown
Crittenden Compromie
Chapter 20: Girding for War-- The North and the South (1861-1865)
Big Picture Questions:
1)
List the strengths and weaknesses of both the North and South as they went to war.
2)
Compare Lincoln’s and Davis’s political leadership during the war. Why was Lincoln more successful than Davis?
3)
How did the North and South manage their economic and human resources needs? What were the results of this management for
each side? Why were the consequences for each side so different?
Identifications:
Confederate States of America (which states?)
Border states (list & why are they important)
New York draft riots
Conscription law
Northern conscription law
National Banking Act/System
Greenbacks
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War (1861-1865)
Big Picture Questions:
1)
What were the key military and political turning points of the Civil War? Explain why these events were important turning points.
2)
What role did both enslaved and free African Americans play in the Civil War?
3)
What were the causes and consequences of Sherman’s and Grant’s turn toward total war? Why do we refer to the Civil War as “the
first modern war”?
4)
How did the war end and what were its lasting consequences?
Identifications:
Antietam
Vicksburg
Thirteenth Amendment
Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862)
Copperheads
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Stonewall Jackson
William T. Sherman
Gettysburg
total war
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Union Party
Election of 1864
Robert E. Lee
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Big Picture Questions:
1)
What were the major problems facing the South AS WELL AS the United States after the Civil War.
2)
Explain the differences between the presidential approaches to Reconstruction and the Congressional approaches to Reconstruction.
Why were there differences between these two plans?
3)
Assess the successes and failures of Reconstruction.
Identifications:
Fourteenth Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Scalawags & carpetbaggers
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Civil Rights Bill (1866)
Johnson’s impeachment trial
Fifteenth Amendment
Ex parte Milligan
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
Radical Republicans
Black Codes
Seward’s Folly (Alaska)
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)