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Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction

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KEY TOPICS
  • ​Compromise of 1850
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Election of 1860
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ANTEBELLUM: THE COMING CRISIS

Sectionalism leads the nation to splinter along cultural and regional lines, dividing the nation into the free-north and the slave-south.  This division will push the nation to the brink, causing a national identity crisis.
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Vocabulary - sectionalism, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom's Cabin, popular sovereignty,
              Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lincoln Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine, Raid on Harpers Ferry                                                                                                                                       Harriet Tubman, Harriet B. Stowe, Stephen Douglas, John Brown

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KEY EVENTS
  • ​Battle of Ft. Sumter
  • Anaconda Plan
  • 1st Battle of Bull Run
  • Peninsula Campaign
  • Battle of Antietam
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CIVIL WAR: A NATION DIVIDED

Both the Union and the newly formed Confederacy take their arguments to the battlefield to fight in order to preserve the Union, or champion states rights and the preservation of a way of life.
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Vocabulary - Battle of Fort Sumter, Anaconda Plan, Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation,    
                                                                                           Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, George B. McClellan

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KEY EVENTS
  • ​Battle of Gettysburg
  • Sherman's March to the Sea
  • Overland Campaign
  • Lee Surrenders to Grant
  • Lincoln's Assassination
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​CIVIL WAR: LEAVING SCARS OF WAR

Union victories rejuvenate the North to lead an all-out attack at the heart of the South to end the war quickly.  Their actions help achieve a Union victory in this war, but leave the South badly scarred from the effects of total war.
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Vocabulary - 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Vicksburg, total war, Sherman's March to the Sea,
                              Overland Campaign (Wilderness), Appomattox Court House    
                                                                                                                                                   Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, John Wilkes Booth

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KEY EVENTS
  • ​Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
  • Civil Rights Act 1866
  • Election of 1866
  • Military Reconstruction Act
  • Tenure of Office Act
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RECONSTRUCTION: THE PROBLEMS WITH PEACE

In an uneasy peace, the United States now has to find a way to rebuild the South following the effects of total war, the loss of slavery and political voice.  
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Vocabulary - Reconstruction, Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction, black codes, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment
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KEY EVENTS
  • ​Election of 1868
  • Enforcement Acts
  • Election of 1876
  • Compromise of 1877
  • Jim Crow Era
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RECONSTRUCTION: RETREAT FROM FAILURE

The scars of war deeply affected the South, causing resentment and hostility toward the former slaves as Congress comes to grips with its failure to fully reform the South.
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Vocabulary - 15th Amendment, Military Reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan, Carpetbaggers, Enforcement Acts, Compromise of 1877,
                               Solid South                                                                                                                                                                Rutherford B. Hayes
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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events