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