Civil War and Reconstruction
Unit 4
STANDARDS:
SSUSH8 – Explore the relationship between slavery, growing north-south divisions, and westward expansion that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
a. Explain the impact of the Missouri Compromise on the admission of states from the Louisiana Territory.
b. Examine James K. Polk’s presidency in the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny including the Texas annexation and Oregon.
c. Analyze the impact of the Mexican War on growing sectionalism.
d. Explain how the Compromise of 1850 arose out of territorial expansion and population growth.
e. Evaluate the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Scott v. Sanford, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and the election of 1860 as events leading to the Civil War.
SSUSH9 – Evaluate key events, issues, and individuals related to the Civil War.
a. Explain the importance of the growing economic disparity between the North and the South through an examination of population, functioning railroads, and industrial output.
b. Discuss Lincoln’s purpose in using emergency powers to suspend habeas corpus, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, and delivering the Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses.
c. Examine the influences of Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, William T. Sherman, and Jefferson Davis.
d. Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Atlanta, as well as the impact of geography on these battles.
SSUSH10 – Identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.
a. Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Congressional Reconstruction, including the significance of Lincoln’s assassination and Johnson’s impeachment.
b. Investigate the efforts of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen’s Bureau) to support poor whites, former slaves, and American Indians.
c. Describe the significance of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments.
d. Explain the Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.
e. Analyze how the Presidential Election of 1876 marked the end of Reconstruction.
ESSAY DATE:
Tuesday, October 30, 2010
Essay will be a "Choice Board" (due on 10/30)
TEST DATE:
Thursday, November 1, 2018
ONLINE TEXTBOOK:
Chapter 9 - Expanding Markets and Moving West (1825-1847)
Chapter 10 - The Union in Peril (1850-1861)
Chapter 11 - The Civil War (1861-1865)
Chapter 12 - Reconstruction and its Effects (1865-1877)
ONLINE GUIDED READING:
Chapter 9 - Expanding Markets and Moving West (1825-1847)
Chapter 10 - The Union in Peril (1850-1861)
Chapter 11 - The Civil War (1861-1865)
Chapter 12 - Reconstruction and its Effects (1865-1877)
ONLINE RESOURCES:
US History Online - The Peculiar Institution (27)
US History Online - Abolitionist Sentiment Grows (28)
US History Online - Manifest Destiny (29)
US History Online - An Uneasy Peace (30)
US History Online - Bloody Kansas (31)
US History Online - From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict (32)
US History Online - A House Divided (33)
US History Online - The War Behind the Lines (34)
US History Online - Reconstruction (35)
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