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Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
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1820
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1877
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19th Century
People to Know
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Vocabulary
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Peardeck™
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*NEW* Unit Guide
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KEY TOPICS
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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.
Vocabulary - sectionalism, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom's Cabin, popular sovereignty,
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Lincoln Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine, Raid on Harpers Ferry Harriet Tubman, Harriet B. Stowe, Stephen Douglas, John Brown |
KEY EVENTS
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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.
Vocabulary - Battle of Fort Sumter, Anaconda Plan, Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation,
Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, George B. McClellan |
KEY EVENTS
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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.
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 |
KEY EVENTS
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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.
Vocabulary - Reconstruction, Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction, black codes, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment
Andrew Johnson |
KEY EVENTS
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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.
Vocabulary - 15th Amendment, Military Reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan, Carpetbaggers, Enforcement Acts, Compromise of 1877,
Solid South Rutherford B. Hayes |
