The Civil War: 1861 - 1865
Advantages/Disadvantages / Causes – Short and Long TermUnited States
Confederacy / Missouri Compromise (1820)
Nullification Crisis (1832)
Mexican War (1846-8)
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Creation of Republican Party (1854)
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Harpers Ferry (1859)Election of 1860
Fort Sumter
Major Leaders
United States
Civilian
Military
Confederacy
Civilian
Military
Significance of Major Battles (Who won and what effect did the battle have on the course of the war – don’t write major summaries)
1st Bull Run/Manassas
Merrimac v. Monitor
Antietam / VicksburgGettysburg
Atlanta and March to the Sea
Military Strategy / Diplomatic Events during the war
United States – Anaconda Plan
Confederacy – King Cotton Diplomacy /
Trent Affair
The South’s search for alliesEffect of the Emancipation Proclamation
Political Events during the war
United States
Civil Rights during the warSuspension of Habeas Corpus
Ex Parte Merryman
Confederacy
Resistance to Jefferson Davis
/How did each side mobilize for the war?
United States
Enrollment Act (1863)Draft Riots (July, 1863)
Medical care
Financing the war
Role of Black soldiers
Confederacy
Conscription Act (1862)Medical Care
Arming their military
Financing the war