OCR a an AS History Unit Y216 Scheme of Work

UNIT Y216: THE USA IN THE 19TH CENTURY: WESTWARD EXPANSION AND CIVIL WAR

NOTE: BASED ON 2X 50 MINUTE LESSONS PER WEEK TERMS BASED ON 6 TERM YEAR.

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Westward expansion; 1 The factors which  Population Growth  Access causes and impacts contributed to the  Westward Expansion, Exploration and the to History: opening up of the West, Fur Trade America: Civil e.g. exploration, fur trade,  Agriculture (cattle and farming) War and cattle, mining and  Transport (roads, steamboats, Westward farming, gold, trails, railways, canals) Expansion 1803- roads (e.g. Cumberland  Industrialisation and mining 1890 Fifth Road), steamboats,  Gold Rush Edition, Farmer railways, telegraph, the  Urbanisation  An Mormons, settlers  The Mormons Introduction to (including push and pull  Lewis and Clark; the Far West American factors), ‘manifest History , Farmer destiny’, opportunities, and Sanders incentives and escape; the impact of the  Louisiana Purchase, reasons for and  Access Federal Government on consequences of to History: westward expansion,  Federal Government, America: Civil e.g. Louisiana Communications and Mail War and Purchase, Florida,  Relations with Britain and Westward Texas, Oregon, Gadsden annexation of Florida Expansion 1803- Purchase, War with  Homestead Act 1890 Fifth Mexico, admission of  Morrill Act Edition, Farmer new states to the Union,  An Federal Government and Introduction to communications, mail, American Homestead Act, Morrill History , Farmer Act, conservation and

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the economic, social,  Migration West  Access political, cultural impact of  Creation of new states to History: westward expansion.  Boom and depression e.g. America: Civil Panic of 1819 War and  Increased tension with Native Americans Westward  Increased tension over property rights Expansion 1803- and slavery 1890 Fifth Edition,  The situation by 1840: size, rivalry, Farmer politics  An Introduction to American Native Americans Nature and diversity of  Political, social and economic  Access Native American society organisation of Native American to History: in the early 19th tribes America: Civil Century, Tecumseh’s  Impact of Westward Expansion War and Confederacy, First (Tecumseh Confederacy, Indian Removal Westward Seminole War and other Act 1830) Expansion 1803- ‘wars’;  Founding of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1890 Fifth 1824 Edition, Farmer  Conditions of the Cherokee and the  An Introduction to Treaty of New Echota American History ,  Impact of the Gold Rush of 1849 Farmer and  Sanders 2 Jackson and the Indian  Jackson’s attitude to Native  Access Removal Act; Americans to History:  Terms and consequences of the Indian America: Civil Removal Act War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, Farmer  An Bureau of Indian  Reasons for establishment in 1824  Access  Main aims and policies to History: America: Civil Version 1 2 © OCR 2017 Affairs; Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, Farmer  An Introduction to treaties and the ‘Indian  Conditions and key features of the Plains  Access Wars’ of 1860s/70s; Indians to History:  Relations between Plains Indians and America: Civil white settlers War and  Fort Laramie Treaty 1851. Fort Wise Treaty Westward 1861, Medicine Lodge Expansion 1803- Treaty 1867, Fort Laramie Treaty 1890 Fifth 1868 Edition, Farmer  Homestead Act 1862  An  Impact of Civil War including loss of land Introduction to  Sioux War American  Sand Creek massacre History , Farmer  Red Cloud’s war and  Grant’s actions and policies aimed at Sanders peace  Great Sioux War  Nez Perce  Apache wars  Reasons for US success and Indian failure

resources, e.g. gold  Reasons for Americanisation  Access and actions of settlers,  Dawes Act to History: Dawes Act and  Wounded Knee America: Civil Americanisation;  Extent of suffering of Plains Indians War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, Farmer

Version 1 3 © OCR 2017 reasons for destruction  Military, religious, political, economic  Access of Native American and social reasons for destruction to History: societies. America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, The growth of sectional Main differences  Missouri Compromise (and the FarmerAccess tension 1850–1861 between North and South Louisiana Purchase) to History: by 1850 including the  Florida 1819 America: Civil breakdown of the  Texan Independence War and Missouri Compromise;  War with Mexico Westward  Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo Expansion 1803- Impact of the Mexican War (Wilmot Proviso, 1890 Fifth Calhoun Doctrine, Compromise, Popular Edition, Farmer Sovereignty)  An  1848 Election Introduction to  1850 Compromise American History , Farmer 3 sectionalism;  Economic, social, cultural, political and  Access religious examples to History: of sectionalism e.g. America: Civil industrialisation, free labour War and Westward Expansion 1803- the issues of slavery  Fugitive Slave Act  Access and westward expansion  Uncle Tom’s Cabin to History: as they developed in the  1852 election and reasons for Pierce’s America: Civil 1850s including 1850 victory War and Compromise, Kansas-  Gadsden Purchase Westward Nebraska, Dred Scott,  Cuba and the Ostend Manifesto Expansion 1803- John Brown, Lincoln and  Kansas-Nebraska bill: reasons for 1890 Fifth the Republican Party; passage Edition, Farmer  An Introduction to

Version 1 4 © OCR 2017  American Party problems  Reasons for and impact of Growth of the Republican Party  Election of 1856 and impact on North- South rivalry  Buchanan’s presidency  Reaction to the Dred Scott case  Lincoln-Douglas debates  Consequences of the John Brown raid

election of 1860,  Tensions at the conventions  Access secession and the  Reasons for Lincoln’s to History: failure of compromise; nomination America: Civil  Campaign War and  Reasons for Lincoln’s victory Westward  Difficulties for secessionists Expansion 1803-  South Carolina 1890 Fifth Edition,  Reasons for the failure of compromise Farmer and the Virginia  An Peace Convention Introduction to reasons for outbreak of  Slave Power conspiracy AmericanAccess hostilities.  Effect of South Carolina secession to History:  Creation of the Confederacy America: Civil  Crisis over Fort Sumter War and  Debate over blame for commencement Westward of hostilities Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth The Civil War Leadership in the North  Jefferson Davis EditionAccess, Farmer and South during the Civil  Abraham Lincoln to History: War;  Ulysses S. Grant America: Civil  Robert E. Lee War and  Advantages and disadvantages of Westward Expansion 1803-

Version 1 5 © OCR 2017 Union and Confederacy in 1861 History , e.g. population, industrialisation, land, Farmer military experience and Sanders  The American Civil War 1861-5, Farmer  Lee Considered: General Robert Lee in Civil War History, Nolan  Why the Lincoln and the Union,  Union war effort South Accesslost the character, appointments,  Case for and against Lincoln’s to History: relations leadership America: Civil with ministers,  Cabinet and Congress War and organisation of war  Financing the war and economic impact Westward effort, Emancipation of war Expansion 1803- Proclamation, election  Successes and failures of 1890 Fifth Edition, of 1864; economy Farmer  Opposition to war in the North  An 4 Davis and Confederacy,  Confederate war effort IntroductionAccess to character, appointments,  successes and failures of to History: relations Jefferson Davis as leader America: Civil with ministers, states,  Cabinet and Congress War and organisation of war  Financing the war and economic impact Westward effort; of war Expansion 1803-  Government efforts to manage the 1890 Fifth Edition, economy Farmer  An

Version 1 6 © OCR 2017  Reasons for Confederate economic failure  Opposition to war in the south reasons for Union victory  Political leadership of north and south  Access including  Confederate military tactics to History: effectiveness of  Failures of Confederacy America: Civil McClellan, Grant and  Morale of Union soldiers War and Lee as military Westward commanders; Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, resources;  Extent of resources available and their FarmerAccess use e.g. factories, money, to History: weaponry, communications America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth morale;  Role of women EditionAccess, Farmer  Debates over lack of nationalism, will to to History: fight, religious doubts America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth strategies;  Guerrilla tactics, mass armies, rifle- musket EditionAccess, Farmer to History: America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, the significance of major  Strategies and tactics used, reasons for FarmerAccess campaigns and successes and failures to History: battles including America: Civil

Version 1 7 © OCR 2017 Antietam, Shiloh, of battles, effects on morale and political Expansion 1803- Vicksburg, Gettysburg, leadership 1890 Fifth Edition, the march through Farmer Georgia, Wilderness  An Campaign; Introduction to naval blockade,  Britain’s attitude to war AmericanAccess international situation.  Trent affair, commerce raiders, Laird to History: rams America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803- 1890 Fifth Edition, Farmer