APUSH: UNIT 6 OVERVIEW
Cataclysmic Struggle: 1861-1877
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 20-22
Key Concept
15. The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested Reconstruction of the South settled the issues
of slavery and secession, but left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal
government and citizenship rights.
UNIT 6 VOCABULARY: NEED TO KNOW!
 Utilize the following as you read for Unit 6. Those that are highlighted should receive special
attention! Follow the READING SCHEDULE from the CLASS CALENDAR (posted/ main page)
 NO HTS Paragraphs for this unit – note the instructions on the NEXT PAGE for the work you will be
doing.
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
Fort Sumter
Border States
West Virginia
Trent Affair
The Alabama
Laird rams
Dominion of Canada
writ of habeas corpus
New York draft riots
Morrill Tariff Act
greenbacks
National Banking System
Homestead Act
U.S. Sanitary Commission
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Peninsula Campaign
Merrimack
Monitor
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
th
13 Amendment
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Battle of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Vicksburg
Sherman’s March
Congressional Committee on the
Conduct of the War
Copperheads
The Man Without a Country
Union Party
Wilderness Campaign
Appomattox Courthouse
Reform Bill of 1867
Freedmen’s Bureau
“10 percent” Reconstruction Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Black Codes
Pacific Railroad Act
Civil Rights Bill
Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act
Fifteenth Amendment
Ex parte Milligan
Redeemers
Woman’s Loyal League
Union League
scalawags
carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts
Tenure of Office Act
Seward’s Folly
Charles Francis Adams
Napoleon III
Maximilian
Jefferson Davis
Elizabeth Blackwell
Clara Barton
Sally Tompkins
“What is excellence? To be
thoroughly dissatisfied with
yourself in a constructive way –
objectively knowing the
difference between where you
are and where you could be,
without self-pity or selfjustification.”
-- PRAUSNITZ
Thomas J. Jackson (“Stonewall”)
George B. McClellan
Robert E. Lee
John Pope
A.E. Burnside
Joseph Hooker
George G. Meade
George Pickett
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Salmon Chase
Clement L. Vallandigham
John Wilkes Booth
Oliver O. Howard
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Hiram Revels
Edwin M. Stanton
Benjamin Wade
William Seward
History is the
interpretation of past
events with an eye
on the present and a
vision of the future!
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR UNIT 6
During this unit of study we will be working on essay writing skills and
utilizing screen-casts and other on-line applications for research. Let’s deeply
reflect together on the second most important event of our history!
The instructions for the Unit work are found in Canvas. The assignment may
be submitted through Canvas or in hard-copy. Note the due date!
THIS YOUNG MAN IS
STARING AT US
ACROSS TIME. WHAT
MOTIVATED HIM TO
GO TO WAR? THAT, MY
FRIENDS, IS THE
FASCINATING
QUESTION!