Download Chapter 10: The Union in Crisis

Mrs. Jordan
APUSH
Unit 8
Chapter 20: Girding for War, The North and the South
(1861-1865)
Objectives: By the end of the unit students will be able to
A. Analyze the Sumter crisis and the secession of the upper South.
B. Explain the various internal political conflicts in the North, focusing on
“Copperheadism” and the 1864 campaign.
C. Explain the role of women both on the home front and in such new areas as
battlefield nursing.
D. Compare and contrast the situations and ideologies of northern and southern
women.
E. Examine the need for the South to secure foreign intervention.
F. Discuss various interpretations of the war itself.
G. Examine Lincoln the wartime leader and Lincoln the martyr and hero.
H. Contrast the many contemporary criticisms of Lincoln’s leadership with those
qualities that now constitute his greatness.
I. Discuss the effects of the Civil War on the home front, North and South,
including ways the war affected women.
Key Terms
secession
Fort Sumter
blockade
Anaconda Plan
War of Attrition
Border States
Trent Affair
Alabama
Laird rams
King cotton
Dominion of Canada
People
Winfield Scott
Edwin Stanton
Charles Francis Adams
Clara Barton
writ of habeas corpus
Militia Act
New York draft riots
conscription
Butternut Region
income tax
martial law
Land Grant College Act
Morrill Tariff Act
greenbacks
National Banking
System
Homestead Act
U.S. Sanitary
Commission
“Johnny Reb”
“Billy Yank”
Indian Territory
Union
Confederacy
Elizabeth Blackwell
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Maximilian
Napoleon III
Sally Tompkins
Mrs. Jordan
APUSH
Unit 8
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War
(1861-1865)
Objectives: By the end of the unit students will be able to
A. Examine how the different political and military perspectives and respective advantages that
the North and the South brought to the war affected their respective strategies.
B. Demonstrate why the failure of McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign almost guaranteed a long
and bloody struggle.
C. Explain why the North won the Civil War and why the South lost.
D. Examine the politics of the war and demonstrate how Lincoln first kept the war aims limited
to appease the Border States but later used the Emancipation Proclamation to strengthen the
North’s moral position
E. Compare and contrast the various Union leaders that Lincoln went through (McClellan and
Meade specifically) before settling on Grant.
F. Compare Grant and Lee as military leaders. The focus might be on Lee as the greatest of the
traditional strategists, whereas Grant represented the new age of total war.
G. Use Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and
Second Inaugural Address to examine the changing interpretations that he gave to secession,
the Union, and the issue of slavery.
H. Examine the effects of the use of black soldiers on the Union military effort and on public
opinion.
Key Terms
total war
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Gettysburg Address
Congressional Committee on
the Conduct of the War
Copperheads
The Man Without a Country
Union Party
Ford’s Theater
Reform Bill of 1867
People
Ambrose Burnside
U.S. Grant
Joseph Hooker
David G. Farragut
Stonewall (Thomas)
Jackson
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
George Meade
George Pickett
John Pope
William Tecumseh
Sherman
Clement Vallandigham
Salmon Chase
Matthew Brady
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Edward Everett Hale
Key Battles & Campaigns
Bull Run, Manassas Junction
Peninsular Campaign
Merrimack (Virginia)
Monitor
Second Bull Run
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Fort Henry & Donelson
Fort Shiloh
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Sherman’s march
Wilderness Campaign
Appomattox Courthouse
Mrs. Jordan
APUSH
Unit 8
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
(1865-1877)
Objectives: By the end of the unit students will be able to
A.
Analyze in more detail the condition of the South at the end of the Civil War,
particularly, the economic and social revolution caused by the end of slavery.
B.
Compare the mild presidential Reconstruction plans of Lincoln and Johnson
with the harsher congressional Reconstruction.
C.
Explain the actual impact of Reconstruction in the South.
D.
Examine the impeachment and acquittal of Johnson in relation to the
overreaching of the radical Republicans and the declining support for military
Reconstruction in the North.
E.
Discuss the new circumstances and experiences of the ordinary freed African
Americans.
F.
Look at the Ku Klux Klan in relation to its historical significance in the 1870s
and its enduring presence as a symbol of white racism and illegal violence.
G.
Focus on the character of Andrew Johnson, and particularly, his difficulty as a
“poor Southern white” in the White House during Republican Reconstruction
and contrast him with his great enemy Thaddeus Stevens.
H.
Compare the enormous gap between the still widely held popular image of
Reconstruction and the more complicated historical reality described in the
text.
Key Terms
Reconstruction
Radical Republican
Wade-Davis Bill
Freedmen’s Bureau
“Exodusters”
10 percent plan
Pacific Railroad Act
Black code
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Military Reconstruction
Act of 1867
Fourteenth Amendment
impeach
Tenure of Office Act
Fifteenth Amendment
Ex parte Milligan
“radical regimes”
scalawag
carpetbagger
segregation
integration
Civil Rights Act
Black Codes
sharecropping
share-tenancy
tenant farming
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts of
1870 (Force Acts)
Redeemers
Compromise of 1877
Woman’s Loyal League
“Seward’s Folly”
People
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Oliver O. Howard
Hiram Revels
William Seward
Edwin Stanton
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Alexander Stephens
Benjamin Wade