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Advanced Placement Unit 5

Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction

January 4 – 25

Assignments:

APPartyTime period political cartoons or other primary sources to be turned in each Friday

Vocabulary words identified on flashcards – Terms due and Quiz 1/14

Steps to the Civil War Power Point project turned in day of Unit Test

Seminar on all Spirit questions and After the Fact on January19

EXTRA CREDIT:

Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin and take the AR test

SOLs:

VUS.6The student will demonstrate knowledge of the major events from the last decade of the eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century by

b)identifying the economic, political, and geographic factors that led to territorial expansion and its impact on the American Indians;

e)describing the cultural, economic, and political issues that divided the nation, including tariffs, slavery, the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, and the role of the states in the Union.

Classes:

January 4

Review Chapter 9 in United States History

Turn in outlines of United States History Chapters 13 and 14; questions pages 262-267; 285-290

American Pageant Chapter 16 Discuss the Peculiar Institution and

King Cotton

  • Crash Course Slavery
  • Homework: Spirit Chapter 16: A 2,3,6; B 1,2,4; C1,2,4; D 1,2,3; Page 379 1-4

January 6 (After School Session)

Complete discussion of Southern Slavery

Discuss issues and events dividing North and South

  • Spirit: Chapter 18 A: 1,2; B 2,3; C 1,3; D 1,2,4; page 416 1,4
  • American Pageant Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle (1848-1854)
  • Homework: After the Fact Chapter 6“The Madness of John Brown” Type a one page summary 12 point font. Include at least five of the “Historical Thinking Skills”

January 8

  • For Tuesday read Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion 1854-1861.
  • Discuss the politics of sectionalismand the steps to war
  • Discuss political and social impact of John Brown
  • The Election of 1860

January 12 (After School Session)

  • The Nation at War
  • Turning point battles

Homework: outline Chapter 15 United States History and questions pages 305-310 due January 19

Homework readChapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South

Be able to discuss the following:

Emancipation Proclamation; “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

How can this statement of Abe be reconciled with his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation?

January 14

  • Discuss Homework

Vocabulary Quiz

Vocabulary Flash Cards are due

  • Beginning to Bind the Wounds
  • Moving into Reconstruction

Homework complete Chapter 21: The Furnace of War (1861-1865)

January 19 (After School Session)

Spirit and After the Fact Seminar

Strengths and weaknesses of both sides; role of France and Britain in the war.

  • The Politics of Reconstruction

Homework: Six Degrees of Separation exercise

For Thursday readAmerican Pageant chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877)

January 21

  • To what extent and in what ways did the roles of women change in American society between 1790 and 1860?
  • Domestic, economic, political, and social changes.
  • Differing views of Reconstruction.
  • Crash Course: Reconstruction and 1876

January 25

Unit Five test and LEQ

Unit Steps to the Civil War Power Point due.