Rationale:

 

The growing sectional crisis in the 1800s led to the Civil War, the most wrenching war in American history.  The peace that was forged after four years of internal conflict reunited the nation and ended slavery.  It did not, however, end the problems of racial inequality.  Understanding the war and the Reconstruction period that followed will help you understand the challenges of a multicultural society that our nations till faces today.

 

Chapter 10:  Sectional Conflict Intensifies, 1848-1860

 

Objectives:

 

1.     Explain how the government dealt with slavery in the territories acquired after the war with Mexico.

2.     List the major features of the Compromise of 1850.  Describe its consequences for the nation.

3.     Evaluate how both the Fugitive Slave Act and the transcontinental railroad heightened sectional tensions.

4.     Summarize the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

5.     Analyze the events that increased sectional tensions in the late 1850s.

6.     Describe the Lincoln-Douglas Senate campaign of 1858.

7.     Describe the various attempts to find a compromise between the demands of the North and the South.

8.     Explain how and why the Civil War began.

9.     Identify the following key terms:

 

Wilmont Proviso

popular sovereignty

secession

Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Fugitive Slave Act

Underground Railroad

transcontinental railroad

Gadsden Purchase

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican Party

Dred Scott

Confederacy

 

Chapter 11:  The Civil War, 1861-1865

 

Objectives:

 

1.     Assess the strengths and weaknesses of each region’s economy.

2.     Contrast the political situations of the Union and the Confederacy.

3.     Describe the progress of war in the West.

4.     Compare the eastern campaigns to those in the West.

5.     Contrast the effects of the war on regional economies.

6.     Evaluate the soldiers’ wartime experiences.

7.     Evaluate the importance of events at Vicksburg and Gettysburg.

8.     Describe how battles in Tennessee helped turn the war increasingly in favor of the Union.

9.     Explain the importance of Union victories in Virginia and the Deep South.

10. Discuss Lee’s surrender and the events of the war’s aftermath.

11. Identify the following key terms:

 

greenback

conscription

border states

ironclads

Emancipation Proclamation

“Sherman Neckties”

13^th Amendment

Gettysburg Address

 

Chapter 12:  Reconstruction, 1865-1877

 

Objectives:

 

1.     Contrast Lincoln’s plan to reunite the nation with that of the Radical Republicans.

2.     Discuss life in the South immediately after the war.

3.     Analyze the Reconstruction dispute between President Johnson and Congress.

4.     Describe the major features of congressional Reconstruction.

5.     Explain the results and consequences of  Republican rule in the South during Reconstruction.

6.     Describe how African Americans worked to improve their lives.

7.     Discuss the policies and problems of Grant’s administration.

8.     Explain how Reconstruction ended, and contrast the New South and the Old South.

9.     Identify the following key terms:

 

Reconstruction

amnesty

Radical Republicans

Wade-Davis Bill

pocket veto

freedmen

Freedmen’s Bureau

black codes

14^th Amendment

Military Reconstruction Act

Tenure of Office Act

impeach

carpetbagger

scalawag

graft

Ku Klux Klan

Enforcement Act

tenant farmers

sharecropper

 

 

 

 

Daily Agenda:

 

Thursday, November 2 –  Begin notes on Chapter 10 Section 1:  The Impact of the Mexican American War and the fight over California.

Homework:  Read Chapter 10, Sections 1 and 2.

 

Friday, November 3 – Discuss and take notes over the Fugitive Slave Act and the Underground Railroad.  Take an internet journey on the Underground Railroad. 

Homework: Answer questions over the Transcontinental  Railroad and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

 and read Section 3.

 

Monday, November 6 – Discuss the Kansas-Nebraska Act and take notes over Section 3:  The Republican Party, Dred Scott,  and the Lincoln Douglas Debate.

Homework:  Study for a quiz over Chapter 10, Sections 1-3.

 

Tuesday, November 7 – Discuss John Brown’s Raid.  Quiz.  Read Section 4.

 

Wednesday, November 8 – Notes:  The Election of Abraham Lincoln and its results.

 

Thursday, November 9 –  Discuss the beginning of the Civil War.  List the causes of the war and secession.  On a map color in the Union, the Confederacy, and the border states.  Label the two capitals and the site of the first shots of the war.

 

Friday, November 10 – Review for test over Chapter 10.

Homework:  Study for a test over Chapter 10.

 

Monday, November 13 – Chapter 10 Test.

 

Tuesday, November 14 – Watch parts of Episode 1 of Ken Burn’s The Civil War series.

Homework:  Read Chapter 11, Sections 1 and 2.  Make a chart that shows the advantages and disadvantages of the North and the South in the war.

 

Wednesday, November 15 – Discuss the new weaponry in the war and its effects.  Watch segment of Episode 2 of Ken Burn’s The Civil War series.  Notes:  the South’s Strategy and the Union’s Anaconda Plan.

 

Thursday, November 16 – Notes:  the Naval War.  Watch segment of The Civil War series.

Begin working on “Battles of the Civil War” chart.

 

Friday, November 17 – Fill in chart for the War in the West and the East.

Homework:  Read Sections 3 and 4.

 

Monday, November 20– Discuss charts.  Take notes over the Emancipation Proclamation.  Did it affect the slaves in Union territory?  Why or why not?

Homework:  Create a chart that discusses the following topics:  Economies of the North and South, African Americans, military life, the role of women, and military prisons.

 

Tuesday, November 21 – Notes over Section 4:  “The Turning Point.”

Homework:  Finish reading Chapter.

 

Wednesday, November 22 – Friday, November 24 – Thanksgiving Holidays!

 

Monday, November 27 – Notes over Section 5:  “The War Ends.”  Continue working on battle charts.

 

Tuesday, November 28 – Battle charts are due.  Look at political cartoons from the Civil War. 

Homework:  Study for a test over Chapter 11.

 

Wednesday, November 29 – Chapter 11 Test.

Homework:  Read Chapter 12, Sections 1 and 2.

 

Thursday, November 30 – Begin a chart of the two plans for Reconstruction.  Take notes over the Freedman’s Bureau.

 

Friday, December 1 – Take notes over the black codes and the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th amendments, and Andrew Johnson’s impeachment.

 

Monday, December 4 – Compare/contrast the two plans for Reconstruction.  Take notes over Republican rule in the South.

Homework:  Read Sections 3 and 4.

 

Tuesday, December 5 – Discuss Southern resistance to Republican rule.  Question:  What were the long term effects of segregation policies in the South?  for blacks?  for whites? for economic development?

 

Wednesday, December 6 – Notes:  the Grant administration.

 

Thursday, December 7 – Notes:  Reconstruction ends and a “New South” Arises.

Homework:  Study for a quiz over Chapter 12.

 

Friday, December 8 – Chapter 12 Quiz.

 

Monday, December 11-Wednesday December 13 – Review for Final Exam.