Unit 6-Civil War & Reconstruction

ACT EOC B.2.F & B.3.A-B.3.E

The unit is essentially three main ideas which covers the entirety of the Civil War period.

The first portion of the unit will discuss the long and short term causes of the Civil War including the divisions that existed because of the continued sectionalism of the early 1800s.

The second portion is the war itself with emphasis on the major turning points of the war, technological innovations, social changes that occur during the war and immediately after, and also Lincoln's influence on war aims and his executive actions.

Finally, the last part of the unit will discuss the Reconstruction period and the implementation of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, known collectively as the  'Civil War Amendments'. 

The unit will conclude with a look at the failures and successes of implementation of Reconstruction including the rise of segregation, the 'Solid South', and the plight of the Freedmen as they entered into a new era of this nation.

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Vocabulary

• John C. Calhoun
• States' Rights
• Dred Scott
• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass
• Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman
• Republican Party
• Election of 1860
• Confederate States of America
• Fort Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William T. Sherman
• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Anaconda Plan
• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• March to the Sea
• Writ of Habeas Corpus
• Draft
• Copperheads
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address
• Appomattox Courthouse
• Andrew Johnson
• Presidential Reconstruction
• Radical Republicans
• Radical Reconstruction
• Civil War Amendments
• Sharecropping
• Tenant Farming
• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Compromise of 1877
• Solid South
• Jim Crow Laws
• Literacy Tests
• Poll Taxes
• Grandfather Clause
• Segregation
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Assignments

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Big Ideas

• Compare and contrast the economic, social, and cultural differences of the North and South during the Antebellum period.
• Identify and analyze the technological, social, and strategic aspects of the Civil War.
• Explain the influence of Abraham Lincoln’s philosophy of the Union and his executive actions and leadership on the course of the war.
• Describe the basic provisions and immediate impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.
• Evaluate different Reconstruction plans and their social, economic, and political impact on the South and the rest of the United States.
• Analyze the immediate and long term influences of Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans and the US as a whole.