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Unit VI – The Civil War Era (1850-1877)
ESSAY QUESTION: Lincoln believed in the idea that in a constitutional democracy
no section of the nation is free to break away – that to leave is rebellion. (What is the
difference between rebellion and revolution?) What is the difference between a war of
independence and a civil war? How could southern whites justify comparing the Civil
War to the American Revolution?
Monday 11.28
Tuesday 11.29
Wednesday 11.30
Thursday 12.1
Friday 12.2
Expansion in the 1840’s
Maine Boundary
Mexican War
Sectional conflict –
slavery?
Abolition and Slavery’s
Role
Secession
Read pp. 355-360
Read pp. 360-365
Read pp. 365-370
Read pp. 371-373
Tuesday 12.6
Wednesday 12.7
Thursday 12.8
Friday 12.9
Post-War
Reconstruction Plans
Either pp. 427-433 or
429-436
Last day of graded
material
Review day
Thursday 12.15
Friday 12.16
exams
Snow day exams
The War 1861-1862
A Union in Peril
Monday 12.5
The Tide Turns, 18631865
Read pp. 374-379
Read pp. 383-389
Monday 12.12
exams
1864-1865
Read pp. 403-409
Read pp. 409-416
Wartime Reconstruction
pp. 421-423
The End of
Reconstruction
Read pp. 441-447
Tuesday 12.13
Wednesday 12.14
8-12 optional review day
History Exam - AM
Chapters
Ch. 14—Slavery and America’s Future: The Road to war, 1845-1861
Ch. 15—Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Ch. 16—Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877
Decade of Chaos – 1850’s
Sectional conflict
Expansion
Slavery
Mexican War
Stephen Douglass
Debates (Slavery v. Union)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas/Nebraska Act 1865
Abolition
Underground Railroad – Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott – Judicial
John Brown – violence/God? Kansas to Harpers Ferry
Fredrick Douglass – literature/politics
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Literature (spark of the war)
Slavery’s role in the war
Civil War
Start of war
Chronology
States rights v. Slavery
Northern Plan
Lincoln’s diplomacy
Election 1860
“Save the union”
Civil War
North’s attitude
Lincoln and the Border States
Battleground (geography)
1st two years 1861-1862
Manassas
Thousand-mile front
Ironclads
McClellan
South as a nation
Stone/Butler
Slaves view of the war
Battles:
Fair Oaks
Seven Days
Emancipation? Fredrick Douglass increases the pressure
Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
1863
Lee moves forward (Gettysburg)
Gettysburg (battle)
Gettysburg Address
Woman of the war
Clara Barton
1864
Atlanta
Sherman
Atlanta to savanna
Destruction
Appomattox
April 7, 1865
The End
Reconstruction
Assassination
Johnson Presidency
Impeachment
Reconstruction – Political/social/economic
Levels
Lincoln v. radicals
KKK
Expansion – Alaska
Economics
Timeline: US History: The Civil War Era (1850-1877)
1832
1835-1840
1840
1846-1848
1846
1848
1849
1850-1854
1850
1851
1852
1854
1855-1856
1856
1857
1858
1866
1867
1868
Nullification Crisis
Intensification of abolitionist attacks on slavery
Violent retaliatory attacks on abolitionists
Liberty Party formed
Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gold discovered in California
Zachary Taylor elected twelfth president
Seneca Falls Convention
Free-Soil party founded
Zachary Taylor elected president
California gold rush
“Young America” Movement
Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore becomes
thirteenth president
Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave
Act
Women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Franklin Pierce elected president
Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act nullifies Missouri
Compromise
Republican and Know-Nothing parties formed
Thousands pour into Kansas, creating months of
turmoil and violence
John Brown’s massacre in Kansas
Sumner-Brooks incident in Senate
James Buchanan elected president
Dred Scott decision legalizes slavery in
territories
Lecompton constitution in Kansas
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Freedmen’s Bureau established
Black Codes developed
Repossession of land by whites and
freedpeople’s contracts starts
Freedmen’s Bureau renewed and Civil Rights
Act passed over Johnson’s veto
Southern Homestead Act
Ku Klux Klan formed
Tennessee readmitted to Union
Reconstruction Acts passed over Johnson’s veto
Impeachment controversy
Freedmen’s Bureau ends
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
1859
1860
1860-1861
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1868-1870
1869
1870
1870s-1880s
1870-1871
1872
1873
John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry
Democratic party splits
Four-party campaign
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Seven southern states secede
Confederate States of America founded
Attack on Fort Sumter begins Civil War
Lincoln calls up state militia and suspends
habeas corpus
First Battle of Bull Run
Union blockades the South
Battles at Shiloh, Bull Run, and Antietam
Monitor and Virginia battle
First black regiment authorized by Union
Union issues greenbacks
South institutes military draft
Pacific Railroad Act
Homestead Act
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
Congress adopts military draft
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Southern tax laws and impressments Act
New York draft riots
Southern food riots
Sherman’s march through Georgia
Lincoln reelected
Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes
president
Johnson proposes general amnesty and
Reconstruction plan
Racial confusion, widespread hunger, and
demobilization
Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing
slavery
Senate fails to convict Johnson of impeachment
charges
Ulysses Grant elected president
Ten states readmitted under congressional plan
Georgia and Virginia reestablish Democratic
party control
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
Black “exodusters” migrate to Kansas
Force Acts
Grant reelected president
Credit Mobilier scandal, Panic causes
depression
1874
1875
1876
1876-1877
1877
1880s
Alabama and Arkansas reestablish Democratic
control
Civil Rights Act passed
Mississippi reestablishes Democratic control
Hayes-Tilden election
South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida
reestablish Democratic control
Compromise of 1877; Rutherford B. Hayes
assumes presidency and ends Reconstruction
Tenancy and sharecropping prevail in the South
Disfranchisement and segregation of southern
blacks begins