Causes, Course & Consequences of the Civil War

Causes, Course & Consequences of the Civil War

USH 9

Popular Sovereignty is the idea that the people (“populous”) have all the power (“sovereignty”) because we vote to get what we want. / Kansas Nebraska Act: / Failure of Popular Sovereignty:
(result of Kansas-Nebraska Act)
Dred Scott Decision: / John Brown’s Raid (Harper’s Ferry):

LINCOLN IS ELECTED IN 1860…THE SOUTH SECEDES IN 1861…THE CIVIL WAR BEGINS

Gettysburg Address: / 2nd Inaugural Address: / Suspension of Habeas Corpus:

NORTH SOUTH

Grant:
Captured control of
Mississippi River in Siege of
Vicksburg
• Appointed commanding
general of Union armies by Lincoln
• Accepted surrender of
Confederate Gen. Lee to end
Civil War / Sherman:
Served under Gen. Grant
during Siege of Vicksburg
• Destroyed Atlanta, ended
Confederate ability to fight / Lee:
Fought larger Union armies to
standoff at Battle of Antietam
• Defeated at Battle of
Gettysburg
• Appointed general-in-chief of
Confederate armies by Davis.
• Surrendered to U.S. Gen.
Grant to end Civil War / Jackson:
Won First Battle of Bull Run
• Fought under Confederate
Gen. Lee at Antietam and
Second Bull Run
• Died in battle

KEY BATTLES:

Fort Sumter / Antietam / Gettysburg / Vicksburg / Battle for Atlanta
September 1862––Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee marched his forces to Antietam Creek, Maryland, where he fought the war’s first major battle on northern soil. It was the deadliest one-day battle in American history, with over 26,000 casualties. Neither side won a victory. / April 1863––Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee marched north to Pennsylvania, where he was met by Union troops at Gettysburg. In a three-day battle, as many as 51,000 were killed. It was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War. Lee failed to show Britain and France they should assist the Confederacy. / July 1863 -- Grant achieved one of the Union’s major strategic goals: He gained control of the Mississippi River. Confederate troops and supplies in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas were cut off from the Confederacy. This Union
victory, coupled with the Union victory at Gettysburg, was the turning point of the war.

Significance of the Emancipation Proclamation

Reconstruction

USH 10: Identify the legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.

RECONSTRUCTION

(political)

RECONSTRUCTION (social)

Redistribution of Land: / Education & Former Slaves: / Freedman’s Bureau:

RECONSTRUCTION (legal)

13th Amendment: / 14th Amendment: / 15th Amendment:
Black Codes: / KKK:
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson:

Industrialization and Urbanization

USH 11: Describe the growth of big business and technological innovations after Reconstruction.

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Industrialization and Urbanization

USH 12: Analyze the important consequences of American industrial growth.

From USH 11:

The Progressive Era

USH 13: Identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

Muckrakers:

Investigative journalists who

Exposed corruption in

Business & government.

Women and Reform

Jane Addams / Hull House / Role of Women in Reforms

African Americans and Reform

Jim Crow / Plessy v. Ferguson / NAACP

Government Reform

Initiative / Referendum / Recall / Direct Election of Senators / Labor Laws / Improving conditions of poor in cities

American Imperialism and Expansion

USH 14: Explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the 20th century.

IMPERIALISM: When a larger country extends its influence over a smaller country in order to gain economically or politically.

Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

Spanish-American War

(America fights Spain for the independence

of Cuba, Puerto Rica & the Philippines. )

America debates expansion

The Panama Canal