2. Analyze the social, economic and political results of the Civil War.
3. In what ways and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution?
Unit Themes:
- The Crisis of the Union
- Pro and antislavery arguments and conflicts
- compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party
- Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession
- Civil War
- Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent
- Military strategies and foreign diplomacy
- Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war
- Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West
- Reconstruction
- Presidential and Radical Reconstruction
- Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures
- Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
- Compromise of 1877
- Impact of Reconstruction
- The Origins of the new South
- Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop-lien system
- Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization
- The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement
Zinn Questions
Links:
The Valley of Shadows: Two Communities in the American Civil War
The Civil War: A film by Ken Burns
Interactive Map Activity
Civil War 150 - History.com