UNIT 6: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
TIME FRAME: (3weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date for Binder, Terms, AP
PARTS documents January 15th/16th
PACE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE
STRICTLY REVIEW!! NO EXCUSE TO WAIT UNTIL LAST MINUTE
(DISTRIBUTED BEFORE BREAK!
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:
December 19th for all classes
Primary Documents:
ALL MATERIALS AND APPARTS WORKSHEETS SHOULD BE PRINTED OFF BY
December 18th, 2013. NO EXCEPTIONS!!
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Anna Dickinson
AA reflects on post enslavement
Dred Scott
Reconstruction docs
Stephen Douglas
Civil War 150 anniversary
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There are no core structure sheets for this unit as you completed them with your
FRQ project.
Content:
Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts
Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty
The Kansas–Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession
Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent
Military strategies and foreign diplomacy
Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war
Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West
Presidential and Radical Reconstruction
Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures
Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
Compromise of 1877
Impact of Reconstruction
Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop-lien system
The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement
Explain how sectionalism and the issues associated with it led to the Civil War.
Identify social, political and economic changes that resulted from the Civil War and
Reconstruction.
Examine the economic, political and social status of African Americans during and immediately
following Reconstruction.
TERMS TO KNOW
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
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Henry Clay
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William H. Seward
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Ableman v. Booth
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President Millard Fillmore
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Stephen Douglas
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President Franklin Pierce
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“Young America”
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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Ostend Manifesto
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Gadsden Purchase
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Republican Party
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Hinton Helper, Impending Crisis of the South
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“Beecher’s Bibles”
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sack of Lawrence, Kansas
caning of Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
John Brown
Pottowatomie Massacre
Lecompton Constitution
“vote early and vote often”
President James Buchanan
“Know Nothings” (American Party)
Dred Scott case
Roger B. Taney
Panic of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Freeport Doctrine
Harper’s Ferry
election of 1860
Constitutional Union Party
Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina, secession
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Crittenden amendments
President Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address
William H. Seward
Salmon P. Chase
Edwin M. Stanton
Ft. Sumter, April 12, 1861
Lincoln’s call for volunteers
secession of Middle South
Border Slave States
Robert E. Lee
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Trent Affair
C.S.S. Alabama
Charles Francis Adams
Laird rams
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico
federal conscription laws
New York Draft Riot
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African American soldiers
Morrill Tariff
Greenbacks
National Banking System
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Pacific Railway Act
Union blockade
Ex Parte Merryman, habeas corpus
Anaconda Plan
Battle of Bull Run
“Stonewall” Jackson
George McClellan
Peninsula Campaign
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Confiscation Acts
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Vicksburg
William T. Sherman
“March to the Sea”
“Copperheads”
Clement Vallandigham
election of 1864
National Union Party
Second Inaugural speech
Grant’s Virginia Campaign
Appomattox Court House
John Wilkes Booth
Mathew Brady
Thirteenth Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Gen. Oliver Howard
President Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
“10% Plan”
Wade-Davis Bill
Black Codes
Congressional Reconstruction
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Radical Republicans
Charles Sumner
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Thaddeus Stephens
Moderate Republicans
Military Reconstruction Act
impeachment of Johnson
Fifteenth Amendment
Hiram R. Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
“Scalawags”
“Carpetbaggers”
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Force Acts (Enforcement Acts)
“Solid South”
“Lost Cause”
“Redeemers”
“Bourbons”
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compromise of 1877
President Rutherford B. Hayes
Ex Parte Milligan, 1866
sharecropping
crop lien laws
“Slaughterhouse” cases
“Civil Rights” cases
poll taxes
literacy tests
“grandfather” clauses
gerrymandering
“Jim Crow” laws
lynching
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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