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Syllabus and Study Guide: Unit 5.5 – the Civil War and Reconstruction
This syllabus is preliminary and dates (or assignments) can always change, but unless you hear otherwise you should complete the
relevant assignments by their due dates (regardless of whether you were reminded in class).
Anticipated Date
Lesson/Topic
Fri March 3rd
(half day –PD)
Fort Sumter (Leadership of Lincoln), Goals and
Advantages of each side
Day 81
Monday the 6th
Day 82
Tues the 7th
Day 83
Thurs the 9th
War Mobilization and Opposition in the North
and South
Foreign Policy and the Civil War
Homework (due next class meeting unless
otherwise noted)
Read: "Mobilizing Soldiers and the Homefront"
Slavery and the Civil War (Butler, Contraband,
and the Emancipation Proclamation)
Read/Questions: AP Ch. 20 – "Girding for War: the
North and South" (two classes)
Read/Questions: AP Ch. 20 – "Girding for War: the
North and South" (next class)
Read/Questions: General Butler and the Contraband
of War
Reading: McPherson – 150 years of the
Emancipation Proclamation (next)
Day 84
Fri the 10th
Day 85
Mon the 13th
Day 86
Wed the 15th
Day 87
Thurs the 16th
Day 88
Fri the 17th
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
Writing: Lincoln: “Why I’m Emancipating (some of )
the Slaves” (two classes)
Lincoln Letter (next class)
Day 89
Tues the 21st
Day 90
Wed the 22nd
Review and some sort of activity (comparing
historical analysis? S.A. practice?)
Test
The War Turns (Vicksburg and to the end of the
war - 1865)
Quiz - the Civil War; Opposition in the South
and North
Debate: Was Lincoln a Tyrant? (first half/20
minutes) - Effects of the War on North and South
Practice DBQ (to be graded, but like a quiz.
DBQ in a few weeks to be graded like a test)
Day 91
Presidential Reconstruction
Thurs the 23rd
2017 - Snow give back day – the 24th
Day 92
Set up Congressional/Radical Reconstruction
Mon the 27th
(Civil Rights Act of 1866 – expansion of power)
Day 93
14th and 15th Amendments (and huge
Tues the 28th
debate/controversy in country)
Day 94
Successes of Reconstruction
Wed the 29th
Day 95
(Time Permitting) Watch: Aftershock: Beyond the
Fri the 31st
Civil War (on youtube – old history channel
documentary)
Day 96
Reconstruction as a Revolution (review for quiz)
Mon the 3rd
Day 97
Tues the 4th
Day 98
Thurs the 6th
Read Ch. 21 and study for Quiz: the Civil War:
Chapters 20 and 21 (next class)
Debate notes (and reading) - Was Lincoln a Tyrant?
DBQ practice worksheet and study for DBQ
Look at the "AP Requirements" at the top of your
SG and at least three specific examples, key term, or
relevant statistics to prove each part of every concept.
(this will be checked – be elaborate)
Study for test
Read – Freedman’s Bureau
Ch. 22 questions (two classes)
Ch. 22 questions (next class)
Crash Course: Reconstruction
Reading/research: The story of the eradication
of the original Ku Klux Klan
Homework – Read/Questions: Reconstruction
Reconsidered- use if internet fails for some reason.
2017 – study Chapter for quiz AND
Reading: Techniques of Direct Disenfranchisement
Quiz – Reconstruction multiple choice (quick)
Read/Question Ch. 24 (NOT 23 – due two classes)
Post Reconstruction rise of Jim Crow
Hand out the FRQ rubric and tease the topic is the
14th and 15th amendments
Read/Question Ch. 24 (NOT 23) – next class
FRQ – “14th and 15th Amendments as turning
point”
DBQ – “1860-1877 as a revolution”
The Study Guide (Essential Review for Assessments):
AP Requirements (that my unit and test were based around)
A. Both the Union and the Confederacy mobilized their economies and societies to wage the war even while facing
considerable home front opposition.
B. Lincoln and most Union supporters began the Civil War to preserve the Union, but Lincoln's decision to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation reframed the purpose of the war and helped prevent the Confederacy from gaining full diplomatic
support from European powers. Many African Americans fled southern plantations and enlisted in the Union Army, helping to
undermine the Confederacy.
C. Lincoln sought to reunify the country and used speeches such as the Gettysburg Address to portray the struggle against
slavery as the fulfillment of America's founding democratic ideals.
D. Although the Confederacy showed military initiative and daring early in the war, the Union ultimately succeeded due to
improvements in leadership and strategy, key victories, greater resources, and the wartime destruction of the South's
infrastructure.
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Other key ideas from the test
Reasons for and times of secession (first state(s), the Upper South, the border states)
Border states - why stay in the Union? Importance to war effort
Evolving reasons/causes for the war
Trent affair, laird rams, and Anglo-American relations (why didn't Britain help the South more?)
Civil liberties in the Civil War (habeus corpus, draft, etc.)
Economic policies of the Union (and war funding methods)
Emancipation Proclamation (when/why issued, wording/purposes, results – ties to foreign policy)
o 13th amendment
Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg (importance/turningpoints)
Election of 1864 (issues, parties, and candidates – why result)
Copperhead movement
Black military service
the blockade - effects on the South and war effort?
Resistance to national governments/war effort - North and South
Potential Essays:
AP Readers look for a clear thesis and analysis to support it. Make sure that your responses are in
essay format (intro, conclusion, body paragraphs) and are written with a purpose. Also be sure to explain the prompt fully using
as many supporting details, terms, and people as possible.
There will be TWO essay topics. You will choose ONE. The topics will be roughly on the following main ideas:
Goals, advantages, and disadvantages of the North and South throughout the war
Lincoln's leadership, policies, and actions
The “problem” that escaped slaves caused for northern generals and politicians.
Emancipation Proclamation: purpose and effects.
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Chapter 22 (Reconstruction – 10 point multiple choice quiz)
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments - purpose and effectiveness.
Lincoln, Johnson, and Congressional Reconstruction plans - similarities and differences
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
moderate vs. radical Republicans
carpetbagger, scalawags, and freedmen; sharecropping
Election 1868 - importance?
Redeemers and end of reconstruction (Compromise of 1877) - was it a success?