Goal 3 - Crisis, Civil War, & Reconstruction
Crisis, Civil War, & Reconstruction (1848-1877) - The learner will analyze the issues that led to the Civil War, the effects of the war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
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3.01 Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil War. 3.02 Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War. 3.03 Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their significance to the outcome of the conflict. 3.04 Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify the reasons why Reconstruction came to an end. 3.05 Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a test of the supremacy of the national government.
- The debate on the expansion of Slavery - Weak Presidential Leadership - Growing Sectionalism - Rise of the Republican Party
* Anti-slavery movement * Slave codes * Underground Railroad * Harriet Tubman * Kansas-Nebraska Act * Bleeding Kansas * Republican Party * Popular Sovereignty * Summer-Brooks Incident * Freeport Doctrine * Lincoln-Douglas Debates * Free Soil Party * Compromise of 1850 * Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 * John Brown and Harper�s Ferry * Fugitive Slave Act * Missouri Compromise * Compromise of 1850
- The role of slavery - Economics and expansion of the geographic regions - Interpretations of the 10th Amendment - Immediate causes of the war
* Harriet Beecher Stowe * Uncle Tom�s Cabin * Fugitive Slave Law * Election of 1860 * Secession * Fort Sumter, S.C. * Abraham Lincoln * Jefferson Davis * Confederation
- Key turning points of the war - Strategic strengths and weaknesses of each side � New military technology � Strategies of both sides � European support � Major political and military leaders � Economy and Industrialization - Executive Powers - Resistance to the war effort
* First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas * John Wilkes Booth * Antietam * Vicksburg * Gettysburg * Gettysburg Address * Writ of Habeas Corpus * Election of 1864 * William Sherman�s March * Anaconda Plan/Blockade * Copperheads * Emancipation Proclamation * African-American participation * Appomattox Court House * Robert E. Lee * Ulysses S. Grant * George McClellan * Thomas �Stonewall� Jackson
- Effects of military occupation - Limits on presidential and congressional power - Development of a new labor system - Reconstruction: resistance and decline - Enfranchisement and Civil Rights - Reorganization of southern social, economic, and political systems � Effects of military occupation � Enfranchisement and civil rights � Development of new labor
* Freedman�s Bureau * Radical Republicans * Reconstruction plans * Thaddeus Stevens * Andrew Johnson * Compromise of 1877 * Tenure of Office Act * Johnson�s impeachment * Scalawags * Carpetbaggers * Black Codes * Ku Klux Klan * Sharecroppers * Tenant farmers * Jim Crow laws * The Whiskey Ring * Solid South * Grandfather�s Clause
- Supremacy of the federal government - The question of secession - Dwindling support for civil rights
* Military reconstruction * 13th amendment * 14th amendment * 15th amendment * Civil Rights Act of 1866 * Election of 1876 * Compromise of 1877 * 10th Amendment