AP U.S. History
Unit 5: Expansion, War, and Section Conflict, 1844-1877
2015-16
Tuesday 12.1
Due: Assignment 2
In Class: The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Homework: Assignment 3
Thursday 12.3
Due: Assignment 3
In Class: Formative Assessment
In Class: Interpretations of the Causes of the Civil War
Homework: Assignment 4
Monday 12.7
Due: Assignment 4
In Class: Civil War, 1860-1863
Homework: Assignment 5
Wednesday 12.9
Due: Assignment 5
In Class: Civil War, 1863-1865
Homework: Assignment 6
Friday 12.11
Due: Assignment 6-Word processed work to hand in
In Class: Timed writing exercise
In Class: How did the Civil War shape conceptions of national,
group, and regional identity
Homework: Assignment 7
Assignment 3: Due Thursday, 12.3 – Textbook and sources reading & Podcast –Take notes and
prepare for class activity
1. Please read Chapter 13, pages 430-440
2. Please take notes and use the “boxed questions” to gain a deep understanding of the historical
context.
~ Why did the Fugitive Save Act fail?
~ What were the main objectives of the Republican and American parties?
~ Why did northern Democratic presidents, such as Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan,
adopt pro-southern policies?
~ What was Lincoln’s position on slavery and people of African descent during the 1840s and
1850s?
~ What was the relationship between the collapse of the Second Party System and the
Republican victory in the election of 1860?
3. Please read and take notes on the various positions taken by the political parties in the 1860
election.
4. Please read the excerpt from the Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) decision and answer the two
questions.
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5. OK, the next part of the assignment is going to take about 50.17 minutes, so please give yourself
the time needed to listen to a podcast from YaleCourses. This opening lecture of Professor
Blight’s class, “The Civil War and Reconstruction, HIST 119,” was uploaded on November 21,
2008, and begins with his“ attempt to answer the question ‘Why did the South secede in
1861?’
Blight offers five possible answers to this question: preservation of slavery, ‘the fear thesis,’
southern nationalism, the ‘agrarian thesis,’ and the ‘honor thesis.’ After laying out the roots
of secession, Blight focuses on the historical profession, suggesting some of the ways in which
historians have attempted to explain the coming of the Civil War. Blight begins with James
Ford Rhodes, a highly influential amateur historian in the late 19th century, and then
introduces Charles and Mary Beard, whose economic interpretations of the Civil War had their
heyday in the 1920s and 1930s.”
Professor Blight’s lecture is the first part of our in class exercise on Thursday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJeyeIPNEiU
Assignment 4; Due Monday, 12.7– Just textbook reading and note-taking – no work to hand in
1. Please reading Chapter 14, pp. 444-446-462 – Note the number of pages you have to read!
2. Please also take the time to read and “answer” the boxed critical thinking questions found on
pages 444, 448, 449, 454, and 460. (In your notes – NOT to hand in for credit.)
3. Check out the handouts given, and incorporate that history into your notes please.
4. As you read about secession, military stalemate, and the use of total warfare during the Civil War,
it is good to utilize the specific historical information from History Sage in your notes. That
specific historical evidence is the fodder for a rich and meaningful analytical essay as well as a
short-answer essay. Be sure to include the terms you find in Henretta’s work.
5. Periodization: “Crisis at Fort Sumter” - http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/ The site organizes
the events between Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 and the South’s attack on Fort Sumter
into categories (Hesitation and Decisions, Final Orders, etc.). Remember that the professor
who organized this site found these categories to be the most significant. Are there
alternative ways to categorize these events?
6. Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time: http://bartleby.com/124/pres31.html This site
contains Lincoln’s first inaugural address; this man could write a speech! We will be looking at
a comparison of this source to the Gettysburg Address, and Lincoln’s second inaugural address
in order to gain an understanding of how Lincoln’s thinking about the federal Union, slavery,
and states’ rights evolved and solidified over his time in office.
7. Consider why the Crittenden Compromise was not a practical solution to ending the controversy
over slavery. Popcorn anyone?
8. http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/ballou_letter.html Here you will find the Sullivan Ballou letter,
written, but never sent, to his lovely wife Sarah just days before his death in the First Battle
of Bull Run.
9. Some web sites with animated Civil War battles:
http://www.civilwar.org/maps/animated-maps/
http://civilwaranimated.com/
“Disunion: The Civil War” (Images & clips & interesting information)
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/opinion/20101029-civil-war.html
10. habeas corpus - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/habeas_corpus Students frequently do not
understand habeas corpus, so visit Cornell University Law School for background and
contemporary examples.
11. Consider European immigrants’ argument that this was not their war. What was the ideological
stance behind their opinion? What was the basis of their argument? Why did the immigrants
retaliate against Blacks?
12. This site has some information about “King Cotton” Diplomacy.
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/ForeignInfluences/englandandcotton.html
These are great lecture notes from Prof. David McGee, Central Virginia Community College.
The Civil War (Through 1862)
http://courses.cvcc.vccs.edu/history_mcgee/courses/his121/Lectures/his121ln16.htm
The Civil War – The Home Front
http://courses.cvcc.vccs.edu/history_mcgee/courses/his121/Lectures/his121ln17.htm
The Civil War – The Bloody War
http://courses.cvcc.vccs.edu/history_mcgee/courses/his121/Lectures/his121ln18.htm
Terms:
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant College Act (1862)
Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862)
National Bank Acts (1863, 1864)
greenbacks
Conscription Act (1863)
“A rich man’s war, but a poor man’s fight!”
New York Draft Riots (1863)
writ of habeas corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Clara Barton
Matthew Brady
Peace Democrats (Copperheads)
Clement L. Vallandigham
Jefferson Davis’
Alexander H. Stephens
Mary Boykin Chestnut
General George B. McClellan
General Robert E. Lee
“King Cotton” diplomacy
Trent Affair
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Ex parte Merriman (1861)
Ex parte Milligan (1866)
First Manassas (First Battle of Bull Run)
Anaconda Plan
Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862)
General Stonewall Jackson
Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)
Battle of Gettysburg
General U.S. Grant
General William T. Sherman
Field Order #15
Radical Republicans
Representative Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA)
Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA)
John Wilkes Booth
Black Codes
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Appomattox Courthouse
Union party
Lard rams
Border states
Carpetbaggers
Freedmen’s Bureau
Redeemers
Scalawags
Sharecropping
“Ten-Percent Plan”
Amendments XIII, XIV, and XV
Reconstruction Acts (1867)
Tenant farms
Contract labor system
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts of 1870/1871
Compromise of 1877
Governor Samuel Tilden (NY)
General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Wade-Davis Bill
Civil Rights Act of 1866
~ What political factors affected Lincoln’s approach to the goals and conducts of the war?
~ Why were the border states of such vital importance to Lincoln in the formulation of his policies,
and how did they affect the shaping of those policies?
~ How did the Republican Party act to expand the American economy during the war?
~ What did the “ideal” of the Union consist of, and why was the North willing to fight to uphold it?
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~ In what respects – political, social, and economic – was the American Civil War a revolution?
~ Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on political and economic developments in the following
regions:
The South
The North
The West
The Civil W ar Tim eline
1860
1861
Dec.
April
July
August
Nov
1862
Feb.
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April
April
April- July
April
Sept
Dec
Dec-Jan
1863
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June-July
July
July
Sept
Sept
Nov
South Carolina secedes from the Union as an independent country
Confederates fire on Fort Sumter; Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers and
orders naval blockades
First Manassas
Battle of Wilson’ Creek, Missouri
Confederate Commissioners removed from British ship Trent
General Grant and Flag-officer Foote capture Forts Henry and Donelson
Federal victory at Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Battle between Ironclads USS Monitor and USS Merrimac at Hampton
Roads, Virginia
Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Campaign
Confederate Conscription Act
Occupation of New Orleans - Lincoln’s desire to attack several places at
once
Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee; deaths: Federals - 13,047; CSA - 10,694
Grant, “I gave up all hope of saving the Union except by complete
conquest.”
Peninsular Campaign in Virginia (Lee’s first battle)
Second Manassas (gave Lee and Davis confidence to attack Union)
Lee’s first invasion of North; Battle of Antietam
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Union Conscription Act
Chancellorsville, Lee’s greatest victory and loss, Stonewall Jackson died
from wounds
Lee’s second invasion of North, Battle of Gettysburg
Fall of Vicksburg on Mississippi; Grants’ “siege warfare”
Capture of Port Hudson, LA
Battle of Chickamauga, Tennessee
British forbid delivery of British-built warships to CSA; French follow suit
Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee
1864 M arch
M ay-June
June
June- April 65
August
Sept
Nov
Nov-Dec
Dec
Lieut. - General Grant takes supreme command of Union armies
Union advance on Richmond
Confederate raider Alabama sunk by USS Kearsage off Cherbourg, France
Union siege of Richmond, Virginia
Battle of Mobile Bay
Sherman occupies Atlanta, Georgia
Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
Sherman’s March to Sea; capture of Savannah (Dec)
Battle of Nashville
1865
Union forces occupy Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Sherman’s march through the Carolinas
Jan.
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April
Confederate Congress approves military service for slaves
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse; Johnson surrenders
to Sherman
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