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US History
Mr. Martin
Unit 6: The Crisis of Union
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
10/13:
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
10/14:
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
10/15:
10/18:
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 Compromis3
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
Homework: answer study guide questions 13-28.
10/19:
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
Lesson: Review for midterm
10/20:
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
10/21:
Stonewall Jackson
Shiloh
Gettysburg
54th Massachusetts
Andersonville
13th Amendment
Lesson: The Opposing Sides & Battles
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10/22:
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
Wade-Davis Bill
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
KKK
Sharecropper
10/25:
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
10/26:
Lesson: Republican Rule & End of Reconstruction
- 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 Chapter 12 quiz
10/27: Lesson: Review and Unit 6 Test
1.
The idea that the U.S. should expand
across the continent? Manifest Destiny
2. Name of the route that many settlers
took to go west? Oregon Trail
3. Who did Texas revolt against in 1835?
Mexico (Santa Anna)
4. Famous battle where the Texans were
defeated by the Mexican Army?
Alamo
5. How did Texas become a state?
Annexed in 1845
6. Who did the U.S. go to war with in 1845?
Mexico
7. What lands became part of the U.S. after
the war? California, Nevada, Utah
8. What new state raised the issue of
slavery again in 1850? California
9. How did that territory become a state so
quickly? Gold was found
10. Name the agreement that solved the
problem temporarily? Compromise of
1850
11. Name the idea that the people should
vote to determine the future of slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
12. Who was the Illinois senator who
proposed this idea? Stephen Douglas
13. What law was passed to help Southern
states capture escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
14. Name the 1820 Agreement that drew a
line to determine slavery?
Missouri Compromise
15. Name the network of safe houses to help
escaped slaves? Underground Railroad
16. Name the book which depicted the evils
of slavery in the south? Uncle Tom’s Cabin
17. Name the author of this influential book?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. In what state did pro-slavery and
abolitionist groups actually shed blood?
Kansas
19. Name the political party that opposed
immigration? American Party
20. Name the Northern political party that
was made up of anti-slavery politicians.
Republicans
21. What Supreme Court case made slavery
legal all over the nation?
Dred Scott Case
22. What law (Compromise) did the case
declare unconstitutional?
Missouri Compromise
23. Name the participants in the famous 1858
Illinois Senate race?
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
24. Who wins this election? Stephen Douglas
25. Abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
26. Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
27. Why did southern states secede?
Because Lincoln won the election and
they
feared he would abolish slavery.
28. Name the starting point of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
29. Name of the Union military strategy.
Anaconda Plan
30. Name two advantages of the Union in the
war? 1) more people
2) Manufacturing
31. Name one advantage of the
Confederates? More military schools
(better leaders)
46. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln freed slaves only in the rebelling
States
32. Name the first real battle?
1st Battle of Bull Run
47. When did the Proclamation take effect?
January 1, 1863
33. Who was the leading General of the
Confederates?
Robert E. Lee
48. What was the Massachusetts 54th?
1st all black regiment
34. What Union General won the battle at
Shiloh? Ulysses S. Grant
35. What was the single deadliest day of the
war? Antietam
36. Nickname of Thomas Jackson? Which side
did he fight for? “Stonewall”
Confederate
37. The turning point of the war?
Gettysburg
38. Name the charge on the last day of this
battle? Pickett’s Charge
39. In what year did this battle take place?
1863
40. What battle effectively split the south?
Vicksburg
49. What was Andersonville?
A southern prisoner of war camp
50. How did women help during the war?
Worked on family farms, as nurses, as
spies
51. What group wanted to punish the South
for the war? “Radical Republicans”
52. What was the job of the Freedman’s
Bureau? Providing former slaves with
Education and medical care, overseeing
Labor contracts and reuniting separated
Families
53. Name Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
“Ten Percent Plan”
54. Name two parts of the Congress’ Plan?
1) Majority of a state’s prewar voter swear
Loyalty to the Union 2) demand guarantees
Of African American equality
41. Name the General that led a destructive
March through the South?
William Tecumseh Sherman
55. Who assassinated Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
42. Where did the war end?
Appomattox Courthouse
56. Who became President?
Andrew Johnson
43. Who surrendered & to whom?
Lee surrendered to Grant
57. What were laws restricting the activities
of African Americans called?
Jim Crow Laws
44. When did the war end?
1865
45. What was the substitution policy?
Hire someone to take your place or pay
$300 to the government
58. What is the 13th Amendment?
Ended slavery
59. What is the 14th Amendment?
Provided citizenship
60. What is the 15th Amendment?
Provided voting rights
61. Who were southerners who supported
Reconstruction? Scalawags
62. Who were Northerners who came south
to help in Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
63. What hate group developed in the south?
Ku Klux Klan
64. Who ran for President in the 1876
election? Rutherford B. Hayes
65. How is the 1876 election won?
Compromise of 1877
66. What are Jim Crow laws?
Kept blacks and whites separated
67. What is separation of the races called?
Segregation
68. Where did many slaves go after the war?
Some headed west, but most remained in
the South
69. What are sharecroppers?
A poor white or black who would be
provided with a place to live, as well as
tools and seeds, in return for a “share” of
the harvested crop