Unit VI the Civil War Era (1850-1877)

US History Unit VI – The Civil War Era (1850-1877)

ESSAY QUESTION: Lincoln believed in the idea that in a constitutional democracy no section of the nation is free to break away – that to leave is rebellion. (What is the difference between rebellion and revolution?) What is the difference between a war of independence and a civil war? How could southern whites justify comparing the Civil War to the American Revolution?

Monday 11.28 Tuesday 11.29 Wednesday 11.30 Thursday 12.1 Friday 12.2

Expansion in the 1840’s Sectional conflict – Abolition and Slavery’s Secession Maine Boundary slavery? Role The War 1861-1862 Mexican War A Union in Peril

Read pp. 355-360 Read pp. 360-365 Read pp. 365-370 Read pp. 371-373

Post-War Last day of graded Reconstruction Plans material Review day The Tide Turns, 1863- 1864-1865 Either pp. 427-433 or 1865 Read pp. 403-409 429-436 Read pp. 374-379 Read pp. 409-416 Read pp. 383-389 Wartime Reconstruction The End of pp. 421-423 Reconstruction Read pp. 441-447

8-12 optional review day History Exam - AM exams exams Snow day exams Chapters Ch. 14—Slavery and America’s Future: The Road to war, 1845-1861 Ch. 15—Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861-1865 Ch. 16—Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

Decade of Chaos – 1850’s

Sectional conflict Expansion Slavery Mexican War Stephen Douglass Debates (Slavery v. Union) Compromise of 1850 Kansas/Nebraska Act 1865 Abolition Underground Railroad – Harriet Tubman Dred Scott – Judicial John Brown – violence/God? Kansas to Harpers Ferry Fredrick Douglass – literature/politics Harriet Beecher Stowe – Literature (spark of the war) Slavery’s role in the war Civil War

Start of war Chronology States rights v. Slavery Northern Plan Lincoln’s diplomacy Election 1860 “Save the union” Civil War North’s attitude Lincoln and the Border States Battleground (geography) 1st two years 1861-1862 Manassas Thousand-mile front Ironclads McClellan South as a nation Stone/Butler Slaves view of the war Battles: Fair Oaks Seven Days Emancipation? Fredrick Douglass increases the pressure Emancipation Proclamation Antietam 1863 Lee moves forward (Gettysburg) Gettysburg (battle) Gettysburg Address Woman of the war Clara Barton 1864 Atlanta Sherman Atlanta to savanna Destruction Appomattox April 7, 1865 The End Reconstruction

Assassination Johnson Presidency Impeachment Reconstruction – Political/social/economic Levels Lincoln v. radicals KKK Expansion – Alaska Economics Timeline: US History: The Civil War Era (1850-1877)

1832 Nullification Crisis 1859 John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry 1835.1840 Intensification of abolitionist attacks on slavery 1860 Democratic party splits Violent retaliatory attacks on abolitionists Four-party campaign 1840 Liberty Party formed Abraham Lincoln elected president 1846-1848 Mexican War 1860-1861 Seven southern states secede 1846 Wilmot Proviso 1861 Confederate States of America founded 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Attack on Fort Sumter begins Civil War Gold discovered in California Lincoln calls up state militia and suspends Zachary Taylor elected twelfth president habeas corpus Seneca Falls Convention First Battle of Bull Run Free-Soil party founded Union blockades the South Zachary Taylor elected president 1862 Battles at Shiloh, Bull Run, and Antietam 1849 California gold rush Monitor and Virginia battle 1850-1854 “Young America” Movement First black regiment authorized by Union 1850 Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore becomes Union issues greenbacks thirteenth president South institutes military draft Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Pacific Railroad Act Act Homestead Act 1851 Women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio 1863 Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Congress adopts military draft Cabin Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg Franklin Pierce elected president Southern tax laws and impressments Act 1854 Ostend Manifesto New York draft riots Kansas-Nebraska Act nullifies Missouri Southern food riots Compromise 1864 Sherman’s march through Georgia Republican and Know-Nothing parties formed Lincoln reelected 1855-1856 Thousands pour into Kansas, creating months of 1865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox turmoil and violence Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes 1856 John Brown’s massacre in Kansas president Sumner-Brooks incident in Senate Johnson proposes general amnesty and James Buchanan elected president Reconstruction plan 1857 Dred Scott decision legalizes slavery in Racial confusion, widespread hunger, and territories demobilization Lecompton constitution in Kansas Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates slavery Freedmen’s Bureau established Freedmen’s Bureau ends Black Codes developed 1868 Fourteenth Amendment ratified Repossession of land by whites and Senate fails to convict Johnson of impeachment freedpeople’s contracts starts charges 1866 Freedmen’s Bureau renewed and Civil Rights Ulysses Grant elected president Act passed over Johnson’s veto 1868.1870 Ten states readmitted under congressional plan Southern Homestead Act 1869 Georgia and Virginia reestablish Democratic Ku Klux Klan formed party control Tennessee readmitted to Union 1870 Fifteenth Amendment ratified 1867 Reconstruction Acts passed over Johnson’s veto 1870s-1880s Black “exodusters” migrate to Kansas Impeachment controversy 1870.1871 Force Acts 1872 Grant reelected president 1873 Credit Mobilier scandal, Panic causes depression 1874 Alabama and Arkansas reestablish Democratic control 1875 Civil Rights Act passed Mississippi reestablishes Democratic control 1876 Hayes-Tilden election 1876-1877 South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida reestablish Democratic control 1877 Compromise of 1877; Rutherford B. Hayes assumes presidency and ends Reconstruction 1880s Tenancy and sharecropping prevail in the South Disfranchisement and segregation of southern blacks begins