Unit 7 Review

The Civil War & Reconstruction

1860-1876

Chapters 21-23

Themes:

• Slavery from the viewpoint of the slave, the slaveholder, and the non-slaveholding white Southerner
• The issue of slavery in the territories
• Slavery as a threat to white Northern labor
• Compare the black struggle to achieve freedom with the abolitionist struggle to free slaves
• Blacks in the North: 1790-1860
• William Lloyd Garrison: Hero or villain of the antislavery movement
• The Civil War began with the Mexican War!?
• Northerners objected not to slaves but to the political and economic power and influence slavery gave the slaveholder in the national government
• Event, person, or place as a symbol of North-South division, such as Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, or the Crittenden Compromise
• Southern grievances against the North
• North-South economic differences before the Civil War that continued unresolved after it
• the 1850s: a decade of political sectionalism and economic nationalism
• Role of the Supreme Court in the Civil War and Reconstruction
• Breakdown of both the Whig and Democratic Parties in the 1850s and rise of the third party system
• Struggle between the president and Congress for dominant political power within the federal government, 1850-1868
• States' rights from 1790-1860 for all the sections
• Civil War triumph of American democracy over European aristocracy ("slaveocracy")
• When did the Civil War become inevitable and why?
• What causes of the Civil War were resolved by the Civil War and Reconstruction?
• Wat the Republican Party consistent in its policies from the 1850s to 1877?
• The issues of the Civil War were similar to those of the American Revolution
• Accomplishments and failures of Reconstruction
• Compare the social and political gains made by Blacks during Reconstruction with those during the second Reconstruction, and during the 1950s and 1906s
• Major developments in the history of Blacks between 1865 and 1912