Study Guide Module 8 Review

Lesson 8.00

  1. How does the story of Wilmer Mclean give you a sense about what to expect in Module 8?
  1. Looking at the slideshow, what can you infer or understand about the time period?

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Lesson 8.01– Nation Divided

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • explain the causes of the Civil War
  • analyze the role of slavery in the development of sectional conflict
  • explain major events of Abraham Lincoln's presidency
  1. Think back: Module 5 – 7, how has the US dealt with conflict happening within the country.

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The Issues

Economic / Political / Social

Slavery and Politics

Issue/Event / How did it effect slavery and continue debates?
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Addition of New States
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Popular Sovereignty

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Election of 1860

Party / Person Nominated / Why do you see this division as an issue?
Republican Party
Southern Democrats
Democratic Party
Constitutional Union Party

Secession

Issues / Main Ideas
Slave States in the Confederacy by February of 1861
Free States
Fort Sumter Issue
Slave States in the Confederacy after the war began
Slave States not in the Confederacy (border states)
Territory Alignment during Civil War

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Lesson 8.02 – Taking Sides

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • compare and illustrate Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses
  • understand varying points of view related to slavery
  • explain the impact of significant events in the early years of the Civil War

Lincoln’s Inauguration

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” / What does Lincoln say about slavery in this passage? / Answer
“It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union” / How does Lincoln view secession? / Answer
“The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.” / How does Lincoln plan to respond to the secession? / Answer
“Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this.” / What is Lincoln saying in this passage? / Answer
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ‘preserve, protect, and defend it.’” / What are Lincoln’s thoughts about a civil war between the U.S. and the Confederate States? / Answer

The Early Years (1860–1862)

Battle # / Battle Name / Main Idea
1
2
3
4
5
6

North vs. South

Advantages / Disadvantages / Comparing Resources
Where does the North have a clear advantage over the South? Do you think all of these resources are equally important?

Lesson 8.03 – Shots Fired

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • analyze cause and effect relationships of the Civil War
  • determine the effects of key events of the Civil War
  • examine President Abraham Lincoln’s military actions

Case Studies

Southern State / Border State / Northern State

Turning Points

  1. How was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the war?

Road to Surrender, The End of the War

Battle / Effects
March of Sherman
Lee’s Surrender

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Activity

Causes / Effects

Lesson 8.04 – The Cost of Conflict

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • analyze charts and graphs related to the Civil War
  • explain consequences of the Civil War
  • compare significant Civil War battles and their effects on the civilian population

The Cost of War

  1. When does the Civil War begin?

Social Effects

Section / What can you infer about that document?
Analyze It
Visualize It
Experience It

Economic Effects

Section / What can you infer about that document?
Analyze It
Visualize It
Experience It

Political Effects

Section / What can you infer about that document?
Analyze It
Visualize It
Experience It

Lesson 8.05 – Emancipation?

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • explain the policies of Reconstruction and describe how these events affected life in the United States
  • evaluate the causes and consequences surrounding President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment

The Reconstruction Era

  1. Look at the image on the left, what does it tell you about life after the war?

Government Action

President Johnson’s Reconstruction / Radical Republicans
Timeline / Event / Main Idea
1 / 13th Amendment
2 / Freedman’s Bureau Created
3 / End of Civil War
4 / Civil Rights Act
5 / 14th Amendment

Reconstruction Acts

  1. Why do you believe Congress veto laws created by President Johnson?

Impeachment

  1. Why did congress want to have President Johnson impeached?

Depiction 1 / Depiction 2 / Depiction 3
What is the cartoonist saying here? / How is Johnson portrayed in this cartoon? / How are the two sides of the impeachment vote presented in this cartoon?

Lesson 8.06 – Reconstruction

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • evaluate the policies and laws that concluded Reconstruction
  • describe how events following the Civil War affected life in the United States
  • explain the political and social consequences of Reconstruction in the South

15th Amendment

  1. Why did Grant receive fewer votes in the North?

Amendment / What does it say? / Impact for the US
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
26th Amendment

Sharecropping

  1. Who was the Freedman’s Bureau?
  1. Why does Sharecropping create a cycle of debt?

Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

  1. Define white supremacy:
  1. How do they attempt to stop former slaves from gaining their civil rights?

End of Reconstruction

Issue with Reconstruction / What was the problem? / How does it affect the US?
Hayes as President
Compromise of 1877
Jim Crow Laws