ASSIGNMENT SHEET - AP U.S. HISTORY
Unit 5 - CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION chp 16-22 (skip 17) 11/15– 12/12
Organizing Principles -
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.
Topics:
Date
Class topic
sectionalism, abolition, expansion of slavery, apologists, Compromise of 1850, Kansas
Nebraska, 3rd American Party System, emotionalization of slavery issue, economic
development, social development, political development, Civil War [social, economic, political
consequences], amendments, Reconstruction [economic, political, social consequences],
Compromise of 1877
Assignment
11-13
11-14
11-15
English
English
Chp 16: The institution of slavery, Southern society
Kennedy – 348-369
Q: How does the invention of the cotton gin change the economics of the South and forever change the status of
slaves in this country?
11-16 Chp 16 and Chp 18
Kennedy – 390-408
Compromise of 1850. Dred Scott.
The apologist view of slavery
Q: Is this the answer: Popular Sovereignty?
11-19 English
11-20 Chp 18: Politics in the early 1850s
Kennedy – 409-432
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas
Sumner-Brooks, Election of 1856, Dred Scott
Q: Why were the Compromise and Acts too late to prevent the civil war?
Holiday Homework: Essay, Readings
11-21 * Early Release
Calhoun’s, Clay’s, & Webster’s Last Stand
Freeport Doctrin
Q: What are the reasons these 3 powerful men could not prevent the rapidly approaching disunion of the union?
Q: The South promised the same thing in the 1856 election as in the 1860 election, what is the big difference?
11-22 – 11-23 Thanksgiving Holiday
11-26 Chp. 19 and 20
Kennedy pp.434-451
Advantages and disadvantages of military strategies
Q: How did Lincoln’s actions cause the questioning of civil liberties?
11-27 Chp 20 and 21
War and the Economy
Q: Why can’t the South win this war?
11-28 English
11-29 English
11-30 Seminar/Split?
12-3
Reconstruction
Kennedy – 477-498
Q: Why do some historians consider Reconstruction one of the MOST defining periods of U.S. history?
12-4
English
12-5
Congressional Reconstruction and Impeachment
Kennedy – 477-498
Military Reconstruction and the Klan
Q: Is it justifiable that the Reconstruction is still affecting our country today?
12-7 Seminar/Split?
The Compromise of 1877
Review
12-10 Review and essay due.
12-11
English
12-12 MULTIPLE TEST CHP 16-22 (Skip chp 16)
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12-12
Presdential charts due ( Polk-Taylor-Fillmore-Pierce-Buchanan-Lincoln-Johnson-Grant)
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