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US History
Unit 6: The Crisis of Union
Mr. Martin
Chapters 9-12
This unit covers Manifest Destiny, the Civil War, the factors that led to the Civil War, and the reconstructing of
America following the war.
Chapter 9: Manifest Destiny
Identifications: The following terms must be highlighted in your notebook. A thorough knowledge of each is
necessary in order to adequately understand / interpret the impact of this period on American history.
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Trail
Sam Houston
Santa Ana
Alamo
54-40 or fight
Mexican-American War
Treaty of Gaudalupe-Hildalgo
09/27:
Lesson: Sectionalism Revisited
- What is sectionalism? What were the major differences between North & South?
- How did the reform movement of the early-mid 1800s affect North/South relations?
- What role would the west play in this growing sectional feud?
Homework: answer study guide questions 1-7
09/28:
Lesson: Manifest Destiny & Mexican American War
- What is Manifest Destiny? How did it develop?
- What are the moral consequences of the decision to stretch out from sea to shining sea?
- How did America acquire the lands that make up present day America?
- What was the central cause of this war?
- Did America pick this fight or were we just defending ourselves? You make the call!!
- What were the provisions of the Peace Treaty that ended the war?
- How did the new land create as many problems as it solved?
- Evaluate the impact of the war on the growing sectional tension?
Homework: answer study guide questions 8-12
Chapter 10: The Road to War
Identifications: The following terms must be highlighted in your notebook
Wilmot Proviso
Gold Rush
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Tubman
Free-Soiler
Dred Scott
Harpers Ferry
Fort Sumter
9/29:
9/30:
Popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothings
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Secession
Forty-Niners
Fugitive Slave Act
Underground Railroad
Bleeding Kansas
Republicans
John Brown
Confederacy
Lesson: Compromise of 1850
- What to do with newly acquired lands
- Components of the Compromise
- Impact of the Compromise
Lesson: Sectional Polarization
- Harriet Beecher Stowe who was she and what was her impact on the Civil War
- The Fugitive Slave Act and its impact on sectional tension
- The Underground RR and how it grew during this time period
- The purpose and impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on sectional tension
- Bleeding Kansas
- Caning of Charles Sumner
- Presidents Test
- Homework: answer study guide questions 13-28.
10/03:
Lesson: The Union Dissolves
- The political parties of the 1850s
- The Dred Scott decision and its impact on the Missouri Compromise
- Lincoln Douglas Debates
- John Brown: The man and his impact on sectional differences
- Election of 1860: Why did Lincoln win?
- Secession: Who does it and why?
- Fort Sumter: The start of the war
- Homework: Study guide questions 29-40
Chapter 11: The Civil War
Identifications: The following terms must be highlighted in your notebook
Robert E. Lee
1st Bull Run
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Clara Barton
Sherman’s March
10/04:
Stonewall Jackson
Shiloh
Gettysburg
54th Massachusetts
Andersonville
13th Amendment
Lesson: The Opposing Sides & Battles
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10/05:
Anaconda Plan
U.S. Grant
Vicksburg
Gettysburg Address
Florence Nightingale
Appomattox
Advantages of each side
Advancements in technology and their affect on the war
Military strategy of both sides
Major battles of the Civil War: 1st Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg
Lesson: Life during the war & the end of the war
- Lincoln during the war:
o Extension of presidential power
o The Gettysburg Address
o The impact of the Emancipation Proclamation
- Role of African-Americans in the war
- The role of women in the war
- The hardships of war
o Riots
o Food Shortages
o Andersonville
- The end of the war: Appomattox
Homework: Study guide questions 40-50. Highlight key terms in your notebook.
Chapter 12: Reconstruction
Identifications: The following terms must be highlighted in your notebook
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Freedman’s Bureau
Black Codes
Military Reconstruction
Impeach
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Compromise of 1877
Tenant farmer
10/06:
Wade-Davis Bill
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
KKK
Sharecropper
Lesson: Reconstruction Plans & Congressional Reconstruction
- Identify and discuss the 3 plans for Reconstruction
- Impact of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
- Purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau
- Radical Reconstruction
Homework: Study Guide Question 51-60. Highlight key terms in notebook
10/10:
Lesson: Republican Rule & End of Reconstruction/ Unit Review
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Republican treatment of the South during Reconstruction
Improvement in African lives
The policies and problems of Grant’s Administration
The end of Reconstruction
o Compare and Contrast the Old South & New South
Homework: Study Guide Questions 61-70. Highlight key terms in notebook. Study for Test
10/11: Lesson: Unit 6 Test
End of 9 weeks is 10/07
1.
The idea that the U.S. should expand
across the continent?
18. In what state did pro-slavery and
abolitionist groups actually shed blood?
2. Name of the route that many settlers
took to go west?
3. Who did Texas revolt against in 1835?
19. Name the political party that opposed
immigration?
4. Famous battle where the Texans were
defeated by the Mexican Army?
20. Name the Northern political party that
was made up of anti-slavery politicians.
5. How did Texas become a state?
21. What Supreme Court case made slavery
legal all over the nation?
6. Who did the U.S. go to war with in 1845?
7. What lands became part of the U.S. after
the war?
8. What new state raised the issue of
slavery again in 1850?
22. What law (Compromise) did the case
declare unconstitutional?
23. Name the participants in the famous 1858
Illinois Senate race?
24. Who wins this election?
9. How did that territory become a state so
quickly?
10. Name the agreement that solved the
problem temporarily?
25. Abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry?
26. Who won the election of 1860?
27. Why did southern states secede?
11. Name the idea that the people should
vote to determine the future of slavery?
28. Name the starting point of the Civil War?
12. Who was the Illinois senator who
proposed this idea?
13. What law was passed to help Southern
states capture escaped slaves?
14. Name the 1820 Agreement that drew a
line to determine slavery?
29. Name of the Union military strategy.
30. Name two advantages of the Union in the
war?
31. Name one advantage of the
Confederates?
32. Name the first real battle?
15. Name the network of safe houses to help
escaped slaves?
16. Name the book which depicted the evils
of slavery in the south?
17. Name the author of this influential book?
33. Who was the leading General of the
Confederates?
34. What Union General won the battle at
Shiloh?
35. What was the single deadliest day of the
war?
54. Name two parts of the Congress’ Plan?
36. Nickname of Thomas Jackson? Which side
did he fight for?
55. Who assassinated Lincoln?
56. Who became President?
37. The turning point of the war?
38. Name the charge on the last day of this
battle?
57. What were laws restricting the activities
of African Americans called?
58. What is the 13th Amendment?
39. In what year did this battle take place?
59. What is the 14th Amendment?
40. What battle effectively split the south?
41. Name the General that led a destructive
March through the South?
60. What is the 15th Amendment?
61. Who were southerners who supported
Reconstruction?
42. Where did the war end?
62. Who were Northerners who came south
to help in Reconstruction?
43. Who surrendered & to who?
63. What hate group developed in the south?
44. When did the war end?
45. What was the substitution policy?
46. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
64. Who ran for President in the 1876
election?
65. How is the 1876 election won?
47. When did the Proclamation take effect?
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66. What are Jim Crow laws?
48. What was the Massachusetts 54 ?
67. What is separation of the races called?
49. What was Andersonville?
68. Where did many slaves go after the war?
50. How did women help during the war?
51. What group wanted to punish the South
for the war?
52. What was the job of the Freedman’s
Bureau?
53. Name Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
69. What are sharecroppers?