Unit 2 Test on Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The Civil War & Reconstruction (1850-1866)
Essential Questions
What were the causes and results of the Civil War?
What were the factors that kept North Carolina from seceding from the Union? What finally led to secession?
How successful was Reconstruction in the U.S. and North Carolina?
Unit 6 Notes
6.1 6.7
6.2 6.8
6.3 6.9
6.4 6.10
6.5 6.11
6.6
Resources
The Peculiar Institution
The Crowning of King Cotton
Slave Life and Slave Codes
The Plantation & Chivalry
Free(?) African-Americans
Rebellions on and off the Plantation
The Southern Argument for Slavery
Abolitionist Sentiment Grows
William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
African-American Abolitionists
The Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe — Uncle Tom's Cabin
Manifest Destiny
The Lone Star Republic
54° 40' or Fight
"American Blood on American Soil"
The Mexican-American War
Gold in California
An Uneasy Peace
Wilmot's Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Three Senatorial Giants: Clay, Calhoun and Webster
The Compromise of 1850
"Bloody Kansas"
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Border Ruffians
The Sack of Lawrence
The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
Canefight! Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
The Dred Scott Decision
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid
The Election of 1860
The South Secedes
A House Divided
Fort Sumter
Strengths and Weaknesses: North vs. South
First Blood and Its Aftermath
Sacred Beliefs
Bloody Antietam
Of Generals and Soldiers
Gettysburg: High Watermark of the Confederacy
Northern Plans to End the War
The Road to Appomattox
The War Behind the Lines
The Emancipation Proclamation
Wartime Diplomacy
The Northern Homefront
The Southern Homefront
The Election of 1864
The Assassination of the President
Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
A President Impeached
Rebuilding the Old Order