Unit 5 - The Civil War & Reconstruction

SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia.

a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, the Dred Scott case, Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, and the debate over secession in Georgia.

• Click on this link for a great article looking at whether Fredrick Douglass believed the Constitution was pro-slavery.
• Click here to view the graphic organizer of events that led to the Civil War.
• Click on this link to read an overview of slavery in Georgia and how it led to the Civil War.
• This link provides another great overview about the history of slavery in the United States.
• A lot of people claim the primary cause of the Civil War was a fight for states' rights. Read more about that argument here.
• Click here to learn more about nullification and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina that almost started the Civil War.
• The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to enter the U.S. as a free state. Read more about the controversy around it.
  • The Georgia Platform helped the country avoid a Civil War in 1850. Click here to read more about it.
• NOT included in the standard, but click here to learn read the Lincoln vs. Douglas Debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• One of the most controversial court cases in U.S. history involved Dred Scott. Read more about this case here.
• Click on this link to watch a video breaking down the Dred Scott decision by Hip Hughes.
• The election of 1860 was the final event leading to the Civil War. Click this link to learn more about this important election.
• The election of of 1860 led to the Civil War. Click here to watch a Hip Hughes History video on it.
• Click here to read more about Georgia's convention to secede from the U.S.
• Click Here for a GREAT Crash Course episode summarizing all the events leading to the Civil War

b. Explain Georgia’s role in the Civil War; include the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, the Emancipation Proclamation, Chickamauga, Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.

• For a broad overview of Georgia's role in the Civil War, click on this link.
• The Union placed a blockade around the Southern coast. This was the Anaconda Plan. Click here to read more about it.
• The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Lincoln, freeing slaves in Confederate states. Read more about it here.
  • Click on this link to read the full text of the Emancipation Proclamation.
• To learn about Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, in which he captured the city of Atlanta, click here.
• This link provides an overview of Sherman's March to the Sea...in which he began burning Georgia to the ground.
• To learn more about the conditions of the POW camp at Andersonville Prison, click on this link.
• To watch the GPB video on Andersonville Prison that we watched in class, click on this link.
• To rewatch the When Georgia Howled documentary from class, click on this link.
  • Click here to view the guided viewing questions for the documentary.

SS8H6: Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia.

a. Explain the roles of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in Reconstruction.

• Click here for a Quizlet Set on Reconstruction & the New South.
• To read a simplified break down of the Reconstruction amendments, click on this link.
• Click on this link to watch a short video breaking down the Reconstruction amendments, focusing on the 14th Amendment.
• Click this link to read an essay on the Reconstruction amendments and their impact.

b. Explain the key features of the Lincoln, the Johnson, and the Congressional Reconstruction plans.

• Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was known as the 10% Plan. Read more about it here (Click link to 2nd page on bottom).
• Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction was known as the Presidential Reconstruction Plan. Read about it here (also 2 pages).
• Congress's Radical Reconstruction plan was the most extreme. Click here to read more about it (3 pages).
• Click here to read a short summary of each plan, with the worksheet we completed in class.

c. Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan.

• The Freedmen's Bureau was set up to help freed slaves in the South. Read more about its goals here.
• This is a link to Khan Academy on the Freedman's Bureau.
• An anti-reconstruction group known as the Ku Klux Klan rose up during Reconstruction. Read more about them here.
• Click here for the Khan Academy article on the First Ku Klux Klan

d. Examine reasons for and effects of the removal of African American or Black legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction.

• Click here to read about the affects of Reconstruction on Georgia.
• Click on this link to learn more about the rise and fall of black legislators in Georgia during Reconstruction.

e. Give examples of goods and services produced during the Reconstruction Era, including the use of sharecropping and tenant farming.

• Sharecropping rose up in Georgia after the Civil War to help with labor shortages in the field. Read more about it here.
• Another system introduced was tenant farming. This was for even poorer citizens. Click here to learn more about it.
• Click here to see an organizer of goods and services produced in Georgia during Reconstruction (go to page 4).