Benson
AP U.S. History
UNIT 5: 1844-1877
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Time:
3 weeks
Required reading:
1.Enduring Vision chapters 13 (pgs 384-404), 14 and 17
2. Amsco chapters 14 and 15
3. Lincoln’s House Divided speech
4. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
5. The Gettysburg Address
6. Charles and Mary Beards’ “Second American Revolution”
7. other selected primary source excerpts
Assessments:
1. Reading quizzes
2. Map work on expansion completed in class
3. Unit multiple choice test on Dec. 18/19
4. DBQ essay: date to be announced
Important terms, people, places:
Enduring Vision Chapter 13:Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict
empresarios
debate over annexation of Texas
Mexican land grants
Tyler’s political platform
Stephen Austin
Webster Ashburton Treaty
Texas Revolution
1844 presidential candidates
Santa Anna
Manifest Destiny
Sam Houston
Annexation of Texas (1845)
the Alamo
Oregon boundary dispute
The Republic of Texas
Oregon treaty (1846)
Oregon Territory
causes of the Mexican War
the Overland Trails
Whig opposition
Enduring Vision Chapter 14: From Compromise to Secession
John Brown’s raid
Provisions of the Kansas
Taylor’s position on slavery
Nebraska Act and its effects
Henry Clay
Gadsden Purchase
Compromise of 1850 (know the
Pierce & Ostend Manifesto
exact provisions)
Disintegration of Whigs
popular sovereignty
the Know-Nothings
Fugitive Slave Law
Republican Party
Stephen Douglas
Bleeding Kansas
Ascension of M. Fillmore
Pottawatomie Massacre
Effects of the slave law
Sumner-Brooks incident
personal liberty laws
election of 1856
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott (no notes on
battles!)
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Sectional effects of war
Wilmot Proviso
Free-soil Party
California gold rush
Lecompton Constitution
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Freeport Doctrine
legacy of Harpers Ferry raid
Election of 1860
secession
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States
Hinton Helper’s Impending
Crisis
Crittenden compromise
Fort Sumter
Amsco Chapter 14: The Civil War
Fort Sumter
Lincoln’s use of executive
power issues with the border
states
Advantages/disadvantages for
each side
1st Battle of Bull Run
Winfield Scott’s Strategy
Anaconda Plan
McClellan/Peninsula Campaign
2nd Battle of Bull Run
Antietam
Reasons for immense casualties
Monitor vs. Merrimac
Ulysses S. Grant
The Western Campaigns
Trent Affair
Alabama (Confederate Raider)
King Cotton
Confiscation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Massachusetts 54th
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Sherman’s March
Appomattox
John Wilkes Booth and the
assassination conspiracy
Copperheads
Ex Parte Milligan (and
controversy over civil liberties)
Conscription Act (controversy)
War’s effects on North
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Women’s roles in the war
Concept of the war as the
Second American Revolution
Amsco Chapter 15: Reconstruction
Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Freedman’s Bureau
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Black Codes
Presidential vetoes
Radical Republicans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Report of the Joint Committee
Reconstruction Acts of 1877
Tenure of Office Act
Johnson’s Impeachment
Fifteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram
Revels
Pros and cons of Reconstruction
African-American churches
Sharecropping
Republican leadership in early
1870s
Credit Mobilier
Corruption under Grant
William “Boss” Tweed
Liberal Republicans
“waving the bloody shirt”
Causes of the Panic of 1873
Redeemers
Ku Klux Klan
Amnesty Act of 1872
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Enduring Vision Chapter 17: The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West
Sitting Bull
Helen Hunt Jackson
Homestead Act
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
“placer” gold
Comstock Lode
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
Wounded Knee
Frederick Jackson Turner
"Custer's Last Stand"
Promontory Point
Oklahoma "sooners”
Dawes Severalty Act
the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Potential DBQ Questions:
1. Evaluate major changes and continuities in the institution of slavery in the South during the 18th and
19th centuries. (2009)
2. Explain how territorial expansion impacted federal government policy in the United States from 1800 to
1855. (2010-B)
3. “The Civil War was a turning point in the lives of African-Americans.” Agree, disagree, or modify this
statement. (2009-B)