Goal 3: Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction (1848-1877)—The learner will analyze the issues that led to the Civil War, the effects of the war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
3.01: Trace the economic, social and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Terms:
1. Anti-slavery movement
2. slave codes
3. Underground Railroad
4. Harriet Tubman
5. Kansas-Nebraska Act
6. Bleeding Kansas
7. Republican Party
8. Popular Sovereignty
9. Sumner-Brooks Incident
10. Freeport Doctrine
11. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
12. Free Soil Party
13. Compromise of 1850
14. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
15. John Brown & Harpers Ferry
16. Fugitive Slave Act
17. Missouri Compromise
3.02: Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.
18. Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
20. Fugitive Slave Law
21. Election of 1860
22. Secession
23. Fort Sumter, S.C.
24. Abraham Lincoln
25. Jefferson Davis
26. Confederation
3.03: Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their significance to the outcome of the conflict.
27. First Battle of Bull Run / Manassas
28. Anaconda Plan
29. Antietam
30. Vicksburg
31. Gettysburg
32. Gettysburg Address
33. Writ of Habeas Corpus
34. Election of 1864
35. William Sherman’s March
36. Copperheads
37. Emancipation Proclamation
38. African American Participation
39. Appomattox Courthouse
40. Robert E. Lee
41. Ulysses S. Grant
42. George McClellan
43. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
44. John Wilkes Booth
3.04: Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify the reasons why Reconstruction came to and end.
45. Freedmen’s Bureau
46. Radical Republicans
47. Reconstruction Plans
48. Thaddeus Stevens
49. Andrew Johnson
50. Compromise of 1877
51. Tenure of Office Act
52. Johnson’s Impeachment
53. Scalawags
54. Carpetbaggers
55. Black Codes
56. Ku Klux Klan
57. Sharecroppers
58. Tenant Farmers
59. Jim Crow Laws
60. The Whiskey Ring
61. Solid South
3.05: Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a test of the supremacy of the national government.
62. Military Reconstruction
63. 13th Amendment
64. 14th Amendment
65. 15th Amendment
66. Civil Rights Act of 1866
67. Election of 1876
68. Compromise of 1877
Major Concepts:
§ The debate over the expansion of slavery
§ Weak presidential leadership
§ Growing Sectionalism
§ Rise of the Republican Party
§ The Role of Slavery
§ Economics & Expansion of the geographic regions
§ Interpretations of the 10th Amendment
§ Immediate causes of the war
§ Key turning points of the war
§ New military technology
§ Strategies of both sides
§ Major political & military leaders
§ European support
§ Executive powers
§ Resistance to the war
§ Effects of military occupation
§ Limits on presidential and congressional power
§ Development of a new labor system
§ Reconstruction: resistance & decline
§ Enfranchisement & Civil Rights
§ Reorganization of southern social, economic, and political systems
§ Supremacy of the federal government
§ The question of secession
§ Dwindling support for civil rights