Unit 4: Civil war & reconstruction

Chapter 11: the Cotton Belt, task slavery vs. gang slavery, cotton gin, Natchez, New Orleans (the city, not the ship), steamboats, coastal ports (New Orleans, Charleston, Norfolk), Liberia, American Colonization Society, Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Chapter 13: Sectionalism, the Republican Party, Missouri Compromise, Henry Clay, Fugitive Slave Act (Prigg v. Pennsylvania), Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Free Soil Party, Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Know-Nothings (AKA American Party), Charles Sumner, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott (Scott v. Sanford), John Brown’s Raid, Abraham Lincoln, Election of 1860, Secession

Chapter 14: Election of 1860, Secession, South Carolina, the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, Fort Sumter, Anaconda Plan, Emancipation Proclamation, Appomattox

Chapter 15: Reconstruction, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, Black Codes, Freedmen’s Bureau, Booker T. Washington, black churches and church associations, Baptists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, intersectionality, American Equal Rights Association (AERA), New Departure, Ladies’ Memorial Associations, Lost Cause, Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Enforcement Acts, Union blockade, greenbacks, impressment, vagrancy laws, sharecropping, Homestead Act, Stalwart Republicans, New Departure Democrats (Redeemers), Copperheads, Depression of 1873, Rutherford B. Hayes

1. What is the link between cotton and slavery? 

2. What caused secession? 

3. How did the goals of the Civil War change over time? 

4. How did Reconstruction and the Civil War end slavery, alter relationships between the states and the federal government, and lead to debates over new definitions of citizenship, particularly regarding the rights of African Americans, women, and other minorities?

5. In what ways was Reconstruction effective? In what ways did it fail? 

Podcast: We The People - The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Podcast: American History Tellers - Reconstruction Series (6 Episodes)