UNIT 1 : The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
TIME FRAME: (3weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date for Binder, Terms, AP PARTS
documents September 6th.
PACE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE STRICTLY
REVIEW!! NO EXCUSE TO WAIT UNTIL LAST MINUTE
Big Picture:
The Civil War was caused by historic economic, social, and political sectional differences that were
further emotionalized by the slavery issue. The Civil War effectively determined the nature of the Union,
the economic direction of the United States, and political control of the country.
Themes:
Identity, politics and citizenship, reform, slavery and its legacies, American diversity,
war and diplomacy
Required Readings:
Chapters 14-16 in Divine
Chapter 9 in Zinn: “Slavery Without Freedom, Emancipation without Freedom” DUE: August 26th, 2013
Primary Documents:
Print Documents and bring in by Tuesday, August 20th, 2013. We will complete these as DO NOWs.
Make Sure to print off APPARTS SHEETS ALSO! One for each Primary doc.
Special Activity (time permitting)- . Debate: “The Civil War was fought to end slavery”
Core Structure Sheet- Complete a core structure sheet for each Sample essay below. Core structure
sheets are uploaded on the class webpage.
1) " I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social
and political equality of the white and black races."
2) How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862 Emancipation
Proclamation?
3) Discuss the political, economic, and social reforms introduced in the South
between 1864 and 1877. To what extent did these reforms survive the
Compromise of 1877?
TERMS TO KNOW- Terms must be done in your SPIRAL NOTEBOOK. Terms should not only define
but illustrates the term’s significance; a mere definition will lead in a reduction of a grade. TERMS
MUST BE NUMBERED! DO THEM IN ORDER
1) election of 1848
2) Free-Soil Party
3) President Zachary Taylor
4) California Gold Rush
5) Underground Railroad
6) Harriet Tubman
7) Prigg v. Pennsylvania
8) “personal liberty laws”
9) Compromise of 1850
10) Henry Clay
11) William H. Seward
12) Fugitive Slave Law
13) Ableman v. Booth
14) President Millard Fillmore
15) Stephen Douglas
16) President Franklin Pierce
17) “Young America”
18) Commodore Matthew Perry
19) Ostend Manifesto
20) Gadsden Purchase
21) Kansas-Nebraska Act
22) Republican Party
23) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
24) Hinton Helper, Impending Crisis of the South
25) “Beecher’s Bibles”
26) sack of Lawrence, Kansas
27) caning of Charles Sumner
28) Preston Brooks
29) John Brown
30) Pottowatomie Massacre
31) Lecompton Constitution
32) “vote early and vote often”
33) President James Buchanan
34) “Know Nothings” (American Party)
35) Dred Scott case
36) Roger B. Taney
37) Panic of 1857
38) Lincoln-Douglas debates
39) Freeport Doctrine
40) Harper’s Ferry
41) election of 1860
42) Constitutional Union Party
43) Abraham Lincoln
44) South Carolina, secession
45) Confederate States of America
46) Jefferson Davis
47) Crittenden amendments
48) President Abraham Lincoln
49) First Inaugural Address
50) William H. Seward
51) Salmon P. Chase
52) Edwin M. Stanton
53) Ft. Sumter, April 12, 1861
54) Lincoln’s call for volunteers
55) secession of Middle South
56) Border Slave States
57) Robert E. Lee
58) Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
59) Confederate States of America
60) Jefferson Davis
61) Trent Affair
62) C.S.S. Alabama
63) Charles Francis Adams
64) Laird rams
65) Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico
66) federal conscription laws
67) New York Draft Riot
68) African American soldiers
69) Morrill Tariff
70) Greenbacks
71) National Banking System
72) Homestead Act
73) Morrill Land Grant Act
74) Pacific Railway Act
75) Union blockade
76) Ex Parte Merryman, habeas corpus
77) Anaconda Plan
78) Battle of Bull Run
79) “Stonewall” Jackson
80) George McClellan
81) Peninsula Campaign
82) Robert E. Lee
83) Battle of Antietam
84) Emancipation Proclamation
85) Confiscation Acts
86) Ulysses S. Grant
87) Battle of Shiloh
88) Battle of Gettysburg
89) Gettysburg Address
90) Vicksburg
91) William T. Sherman
92) “March to the Sea”
93) “Copperheads”
94) Clement Vallandigham
95) election of 1864
96) National Union Party
97) Second Inaugural speech
98) Grant’s Virginia Campaign
99) Appomattox Court House
100)
John Wilkes Booth
101)
Mathew Brady
102)
Thirteenth Amendment
103)
Freedmen’s Bureau
104)
Gen. Oliver Howard
105)
President Andrew Johnson
106)
Presidential Reconstruction
107)
“10% Plan”
108)
Wade-Davis Bill
109)
Black Codes
110)
Congressional Reconstruction
111)
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
112)
Fourteenth Amendment
113)
Radical Republicans
114)
Charles Sumner
115)
Thaddeus Stephens
116)
Moderate Republicans
117)
Military Reconstruction Act
118)
impeachment of Johnson
119)
Fifteenth Amendment
120)
Hiram R. Revels
121)
Blanche K. Bruce
122)
“Scalawags”
123)
“Carpetbaggers”
124)
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
125)
Force Acts (Enforcement Acts)
126)
“Solid South”
127)
“Lost Cause”
128)
“Redeemers”
129)
“Bourbons”
130)
Civil Rights Act of 1875
131)
Compromise of 1877
132)
President Rutherford B. Hayes
133)
Ex Parte Milligan, 1866
134)
sharecropping
135)
crop lien laws
136)
“Slaughterhouse” cases
137)
“Civil Rights” cases
138)
poll taxes
139)
literacy tests
140)
“grandfather” clauses
141)
gerrymandering
142)
“Jim Crow” laws
143)
lynching
144)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
145)
146)
147)
148)
149)
150)
151)
152)
153)
154)
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
“accommodation”
“Atlanta Compromise”
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
“separate but equal”
W. E. B. Du Bois
Niagara Movement
“talented tenth”
NAACP