SSUSH9
• The student will identify key events, issues,
and individuals relating to the causes, course,
and consequences of the civil war.
SSUSH9.A
• Explain the Kansas - Nebraska act, the failure
of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case, and
john browns raid.
DRED SCOTT CASE
•
The Dred Scott case, was a supreme court case that
established slaves not as people, but property.
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
• Popular sovereignty, is the voting to
allow slavery in a certain state.
• John browns raid- john brown was a abolitionist
terrorist. John brown planed to start a rebellion against the
south, ultimately his plan failed.
THE KANSAS – NEBRASKA ACT
• suggested that people living in Kansas and
Nebraska can vote for the allowance of slavery
or not. This act failed because it went against
the Missouri compromise, which stated that
all states above the 36/30 line will not allow
slavery.
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS EFFORTS TO
PRESERVE THE UNION
• Gettysburg speech- Lincolns speech showed that he wanted
to preserve and reunite the union. In his speech he respect the lives
lost of both union and confederate solider.
• Suspension of habeas corpus- Lincolns decision allows
him to arrest anyone against him, showing that he wants to preserve the
union.
SSUSH9.C
SSUSH9.c
Describe the role of Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall
Jackson,” William T. Sherman, and Jefferson Davis.
• Ulysses Grant, was the union general, He accepted Robert E. Lee
surrender. Started total war against the south.
• Robert E. Lee, is the general of the confederate army. He got
offered by Abe Lincoln to be the leader of the union but declined
it because he was faithful to the confederacy.
• “Stonewall Jackson” confederate military leader. He was
accidentally wounded by his own men at the Battle of
Chancellorsville in Virginia.
SSUSH9.C
SSUSH9.c
Describe the role of Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall
Jackson,” William T. Sherman, and Jefferson Davis.
• William T. Sherman, union military leader. He was taking the
union army from Atlanta, and marching south 300 miles long.
Used total war effort in the south.
• Jefferson Davis, He was the President of the Confederate States.
SSUSH9.D
SSUSH9.d
Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg,
Gettysburg, and the Battle of Atlanta.
• Fort Sumter, it was the first battle of the civil war. The
confederacy wins.
• Antietam, The bloodiest single day in American military history
ended in a draw.
• Vicksburg, This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant
military campaigns of the war. The north gains control of the
Mississippi river.
SSUSH9.D
SSUSH9.d
Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg,
Gettysburg, and the Battle of Atlanta.
• Gettysburg, This most famous and most important Civil War
Battle, 50,000 deaths, union won.
• Battle of Atlanta, Victory by William T. Sherman and began the
beginning to the march of the sea.
STANDARD SSUSH9.E
SSUSH9.e
Describe the significances of the Emancipation Proclamation- The
Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the areas in
rebellion from the Union.
 It didn’t end slavery entirely
 Slavery was still going on in the south
STANDARD SSUSH9.F
SSUSH9.f
Explain the importance of the growing economic disparity between
the North, and the South through an examination of population,
functioning railroads, and industrial output The North had more population, railroads, money, and more
industrial output.
 Railroads for trading and transportation
 Population for a bigger army
 Industrial output for the making of manufactured goods
 The South only had agriculture for cotton
STANDARD SSUH10.A
Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with
Radical Republic Reconstruction.
SSUSH10.A
•
Lincoln’s 10% Plan was a plan where if 10% of voters in a state will pledge
loyalty to the union then they can come back in. It was not used because
Lincoln was assassinated.
•
Johnson’s Plan was if you would like to be allowed back into the Union, States
had to ratify the 13th and 14th amendment.
Johnson was a Sothern democrat who also gave individual pardoners to guilty
southerners.
•
The Radical Republican plan is to get back into the union, states had to ratify
the 13th and 14th amendment and allow black men to vote and had to
agree to military control
STANDARD SSUH10.B
Explain efforts to redistribute land in the South among
the former slaves, provide advanced education such
as Morehouse College, and Freedmen’s bureau
SSUSH10.B
• Redistributed Land was the 40 acres and a mule policy
• The Freedmen’s bureau was established to help newly freed
African Americans
• There was more than 1,000 black schools were built and over
$400,000 spent to establish teacher-training institutions
SSUSH 10.C
Describe the significance of the 13th, 14th and 15th
amendments.
THE AMENDMENTS
• The 13th amendment said that there would be no
more slavery
• The 14th amendment granted citizenship and rights to
freed men
• The 15th amendment gave freed black men the right
to vote
SSUSH 10.D
Explain Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and other forms
of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.
RESISTANCE TO RACIAL EQUALITY
• Black Codes were laws passed to keep freed men & women
down
ex. Curfew, not allowing them not meet, not allowing them
to own a business
• KKK was formed to scare black people into not voting
the KKK burned crosses into yards, hung people
• The grandfather clause was made- if your grandfather could, so
could you
SSUSH10 E.
Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relationship to reconstruction.
Johnson vs. radical congress
Johnson fired radical republicans in his cabinet
congress passed the Tenure of Office Act to limit the president’s power
Congress wanted to impeach him after he tried to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Johnson escaped removal by one vote
SSUSH10 F
Analyze how the presidential election of 1876and the subsequent compromise of
1877 marked the end of reconstruction.
Hayes ran as a republican
Tilden ran as a democrat
Hayes won without a single southern electoral vote.
The South will accept Hayes if 1)military districts are disused 2) International
improvements (roads)