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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.
KEY TOPICS
  • ​Compromise of 1850
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Election of 1860
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Vocabulary - sectionalism, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), popular sovereignty, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Bleeding Kansas (1856), Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857, Linclon Douglas Debates (1858), Freeport Doctrine 1858, Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)                                                                                                                          Harriet Tubman, Harriet B. Stowe, Stephen Douglas, John Brown

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.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Battle of Ft. Sumter
  • Anaconda Plan
  • 1st Battle of Bull Run
  • Peninsula Campaign
  • Battle of Antietam
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Vocabulary - Battle of Fort Sumter (April 1861), Anaconda Plan, Battle of Antietam (1862), Emancipation Proclamation (1863),    
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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.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Battle of Gettysburg
  • Sherman's March to the Sea
  • Overland Campaign
  • Lee Surrenders to Grant
  • Lincoln's Assassination
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Vocabulary - 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Battle of Gettysburg (1863), Battle of Vicksburg (1863), total war, Sherman's March to the Sea (1864), Overland Campaign (Wilderness), Appomattox Court House (1865)    
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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.  
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
  • Civil Rights Act 1866
  • Election of 1866
  • Military Reconstruction Act
  • Tenure of Office Act
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Vocabulary - Reconstruction, Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction, black codes, 13th Amendment (1865), 14th Amendment (1868)
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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.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Election of 1868
  • Enforcement Acts
  • Election of 1876
  • Compromise of 1877
  • Jim Crow Era
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Vocabulary - 15th Amendment (1870), Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, Ku Klux Klan, Carpetbaggers, Enforcement Acts, Compromise of 1877, Solid South 
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