AP US HISTORY UNIT 5 BEFORE/DURING/AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 1848-1877
OUT OF MANY chapters=
#15 The Coming Crisis, the 1850s,
#16 The Civil War, 1861-1865,
#17 Reconstruction 1863-1877
AP U.S. HISTORY KEY CONCEPTS
5.1: The United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist
foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere and emerged as the destination for many migrants
from other countries.
5.2: Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other
economic, cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war.
5.3: 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 OBJECTIVES
1) Students will understand and analyze the sectional differences & viewpoints between the
North, South & Western frontier regarding popular sovereignty & slavery.
2) Students will understand & analyze the political debates of the election of 1860.
3) Students will understand & analyze the Southern secession & Confederacy.
4) Students will understand & analyze the events & progression of the Civil War.
5) Students will understand & analyze the issues & debates of Reconstruction.
Key Research Terms
BEFORE
BATTLE FOR THE TERRITORIES (MIG,POL)
Free-soil movement & political party
“bleeding Kansas”
Lecompton constitution
POLITICS IN CRISIS (POL)
Know-Nothing political party
John C Calhoun & The Doctrine of Nullification
Election of 1860
Secession
Confederate States of America & Jefferson Davis
VIOLENT REPONSES (POL)
Raid at Harpers Ferry/ John Brown
WRITING POWER (CUL)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton R. Helper
COMPROMISING (POL)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Crittenden compromise
SLAVERY (POL)
Fugitive Slave Law
Dred Scott v. Sandford /Roger Taney
Underground Railroad/ Harriet Tubman
Lincoln-Douglas debates
House divided speech
Freeport Doctrine
Key Research Terms DURING
THE BREAK (NAT, POL)
Border states
Secession states
Confederate Constitution
WAR & THE LAW (POL)
Lincoln’s executive power
suspension of habeas corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
New York draft riots
13th amendment
WARTIME POLITICS (POL)
Copperheads
Gettysburg Address 1863
Election of 1864
THE FIGHTING (POL,GEO,CUL)
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Significance of Battle of Antietam
Monitor vs. Merrimac /ironclads
Shiloh
Battle of Gettysburg
The Union’s Anaconda Plan /Battle of Vicksburg
Sherman’s March /”scorched earth” policy
Appomattox Court House
THE FINAL ACT (CUL)
John Wilkes Booth /assassination
SOCIAL IMPACT (NAT, CUL)
segregated black troops/ Mass. 54th Regiment
women in nursing & workplace
4 million freedmen /where to go? / what to do?
ECONOMIC GROWTH (WXT)
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
FREE LAND (MIG)
Homestead Act (1862)
Key Research Terms AFTER
SOCIAL IMPACT ON BLACKS (NAT, CUL)
Black Codes
Freedman’s Bureau 1865
Sharecropping
Ku Klux Klan
Tuskegee Institute
CORRUPTION (WXT, POL)
Credit Mobilier Scandal
William (Boss) Tweed /NY city
EQUALITY (NAT,POL)
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
RECONSTRUCTION (POL, CUL)
Lincoln’s 10% plan
Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction (1866)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864) result?
Congressional reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction Acts begin 1867
Tenure of Office Act, 1867 & Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Force Acts (1870, 1871)
Amnesty Act of 1872
Compromise of 1877 /end of Reconstruction
MAIN IDEAS
Complete in class with study group.
1. List & explain the strengths and weaknesses of the North and the South militarily,
politically and economically.
2. List and explain all the RECONSTRUCTION arguments, acts, and results.
CIVIL WAR PROJECT
Choose one
1) Make a timeline of Civil War events (1861-1877) both political and military, include date,
explanation of event and it’s significance politically, economically, or socially, and visual for each.
Choose a minimum of 10 events based on your assessment of the most significant. (Hint= what
10 events/facts MUST a person know to understand the Civil War?)
OR
2) Create or find political cartoons which depict issues BEFORE/DURING/AFTER the Civil War,
include a written explanation of the issues and dates.
Student created political cartoons require 3, one for each time period. Found actual political
cartoons require 6, two for each time period.
EITHER #1 OR #2 WILL BE STAND ALONE DIGITAL PROJECTS FOR YOUR CLASS TO
VIEW.
CREATED #2 POLITICAL CARTOONS MUST BE HARD COPY.