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US History 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