Study Guide – Unit 5 – Sectionalism, Road to the Civil War, the Civil War and Reconstruction

Date Due	Assignment
Weds., Oct. 28	1. Read p. 377 - 389 2. Answer questions 1 – 5 3. There is a lot of HW for Friday. You may want to get started on it now.
Fri., Oct. 30	1. Be prepared for the Debate on Mexican War You will be arguing the opposite side as to what you argued for the War of 1812. 2. Read p. 389-393 3. Download and read Calhoun’s and Webster’s speech excerpts on the Compromise of 1850 and make margin notes about their main arguments. 4. Answer questions 6 -7
Mon., Nov. 2	-Please bring your Documents book to class -You will be assigned a section of the book to read and questions to answer. Be prepared to teach the other group about your material. Group A 1. Read p. 349 – 362 2. Answer questions 8 – 121 Group B 1. Read p. 362 – 375 2. Answer questions 13 – 18
Tues., Nov. 3	1. Read p. 393 – 397 in the textbook 2. Read p. 338-9 and look at the cartoon on p. 340 in the Docs book 3. Read p. 343 -4 in the Docs book 4. Answer questions 19 - 21
Weds., Nov. 4	1. Read p. 397 - 402 2. 2. Read the excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates on p. 347 - 8 in the Docs book. 3. Answer questions 22 - 24
Thurs., Nov. 5	1. Topic Selection due for Research Paper 2. Read p. 402 – 405 AND p. 407 - 412 3. Answer questions 25 - 28
Fri., Nov. 6	1. Read p. 412 – 417 (You are not responsible for the military campaigns as far as being tested on it. Of course, every American should be familiar with the fighting in the Civil War. College Board seems to disagree. 2. Answer question 29 3. Read the Declaration of the Immediate Causes for the Secession of SC on p. 354 – 356 in the Docs Book. Make detailed margin notes on the arguments presented. Be able to answer the question: Why did South Carolina secede? 4. Read the excerpts on “Fort Sumter and Why the war started.” Make margin notes indicating the reasons for the start of the Civil War that each source gives. Pay close attention to Jefferson Davis’s and Abraham Lincoln’s arguments.
Mon ., Nov. 9	1. Quiz on the material up to the outbreak of the war 2. Read p. 417 – 420 3. Answer questions 30 - 31
Tues., Nov. 10	1. Read p. 426 - 435 2. Look at the pictures on p. 368 – 9 of the Docs book 3. Answer questions 32 - 36
Thurs., Nov. 12	DBQ Due
Fri., Nov. 13	Work on your bibliography
Mon., Nov. 16	1. Read the Gettysburg Address on p. 371 – 372 in the Docs book and take notes on what Lincoln says is the purpose of the war 2. Read Lincoln’s Second Inaugural on p. 377 – 8 of the Docs book and take notes on what Lincoln says was the cause of the war. Not the rhetorical devices that he uses in both speeches. These are two of the most famous speeches in American history. Why?
Tues., Nov. 17	1. Assigned presidential charts due by 8:30 am 2. Do a brain drain of everything you can think of from the colonial period through the Civil War that has to do with expansion. Try to group your facts in chronological order. Write as much as you can without looking at your book or notes, then go back and use both of those to add to your list. 3. Work on your bibliography
Weds., Nov., 18	Preliminary bibliography due
Thurs., Nov. 19	Test

Reading Questions

1.	List the events leading to Texan independence. Make sure you understand item on your list.
2.	What was Manifest Destiny?
3.	Briefly summarize the issues and results of the election of 1844.
4.	List the events leading to and during the War with Mexico. Make sure you understand items on your list.
5.	How did the War with Mexico exacerbate sectionalism? What was the Wilmot Proviso? What was the appeal of the Free-Soil movement. The War’s effect on sectionalism is very important. Make sure you understand it.
6.	Summarize the crisis of 1850 and the Compromise of 1850. Make sure you know the elements of the Compromise. Get a mental picture stored in your brains of the map on p. 392.
7.	After downloading reading Calhoun’s and Webster’s arguments on the Compromise of 1850, summarize each man’s main points. You can do this as margin notes on their speeches.
8.	Summarize the information on the domestic slave trade.
9.	What was the impact on slave family life?
10.	How did the traditional aristocrats of the Old South view themselves and what elements of their lifestyles reflected that view?
11.	What arguments did they make that slavery was a “positive good?”
12.	How did the culture in the Cotton South differ from the tobacco and rice plantations?
13.	Summarize the information on the hierarchy among southern whites.
14.	What were the political debates between the parties in southern states?
15.	Why did the South not develop a more diversified economy? What does the book call the South an “economic colony?” (p. 366)
16.	Summarize the information on the customs and culture that developed among African Americans.
17.	How did the slaves demonstrate both passive and active resistance?
18.	To what extent did free blacks enjoy freedom?
19.	Read through the excerpts of the Fugitive Slave Act on p. 338-9 in the Docs book, summarize the provisions that facilitated the recapture of fugitive slaves. Look at the cartoon on p. 340 and try to understand the point it is making about Daniel Webster.
20.	Identify the role of each of the following in the conflicts of the period: Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, , John Brown, and Bleeding Kansas.
21.	Why did Senator Sumner’s speech on p. 343 of the Docs book so anger Rep. Brooks?
22.	The 1850s are a period of dynamic change in politics. Summarize what was going on politically for each of the following parties. What did these parties stand for and how did they fare in the 1850s? Whigs, Know-Nothing or American, and the Republican Party.
23.	Summarize the three main points of the Dred Scott decision. Why was this such a thunderclap in politics?
24.	In two columns, outline the arguments of both Douglas and Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates using both your textbook and the excerpts on p. 347 - 8 in the Docs book. What was the Freeport Doctrine? (Douglas’s answer to Lincoln’s second question.)
25.	What was the impact of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?
26.	Make a bullet-point list summarizing the 1860 election
27.	Make of a detailed list of the events between Lincoln’s victory in November, 1860 to the secession of AR, TN, NC, and VA
28.	What moves did the Union take to keep the border states (DE, MD, KY, and MO) in the Union?
29.	Using what you know now about how wars are fought, make a list of the advantages and disadvantages that each side would have in this war.
30.	Summarize the information on how each side mobilized for fighting the war. What controversies were there for each side’s policies? What happened to civil rights in the face of the need for filling enlistments?
31.	How did each side cope with providing medical services? What was the role of women in this and in fulfilling other needs?
32.	Summarize the information on how each side financed the war. Include a detailed list of the political plans that the Republicans enacted to sustain “the allegiance of many northerners to the Republican Party.” In addition to the information on how they raised money, include the South’s hopes for “King Cotton,” the Homestead Act, banking laws, transcontinental railroad, and the growth of industry in the North.
33.	What did the Emancipation Proclamation actually say and what effect did it have on the war? What are the criticisms apparent of Lincoln in the pictures on p. 368-9 of the Docs book?
34.	What was the role of black soldiers in the war?
35.	Summarize the information on the election of 1864. Why did Lincoln win?
36.	What was the effect of Sherman’s March on both the war, the civilians and the slaves in the areas he marched through?

Identifications and Sectionalism and the Civil War

1.	Stephen Austin	26.	Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)	51.	Anaconda Plan
2.	General Santa Anna	27.	Republican Party (1854)	52.	First Bull Run (Manassas)
3.	Alamo and Goliad	28.	American or Know-Nothing Party	53.	Ex Parte Merryman
4.	Battle of San Jacinto	29.	Lecompton Constitution	54.	Gen. George B. McClellan
5.	Sam Houston	30.	Bleeding Kansas	55.	Gen. Robert E. Lee
6.	Manifest Destiny	31.	Lawrence, KS	56.	Gen. Stonewall Jackson
7.	Oregon Boundary Dispute	32.	John Brown	57.	Monitor and the Merrimac
8.	Election of 1844	33.	The caning of Senator Charles Sumner	58.	Antietam
9.	James K. Polk	34.	James Buchanan	59.	Gen. Ulysses Grant
10.	Henry Clay	35.	John C. Fremont	60.	Conscription Act 1862
11.	Annexation of Texas	36.	Election of 1856	61.	Enrollment Act 1863
12.	Oregon Treaty of 1846	37.	Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)	62.	New York City Draft Riots
13.	Wilmot Proviso	38.	Roger B. Taney	63.	Dorothea Dix
14.	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	39.	Abraham Lincoln	64.	Clara Barton
15.	Zachary Taylor	40.	Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)	65.	Homestead Act of 1862
16.	Gold Rush	41.	Freeport Doctrine	66.	Emancipation Proclamation 1862
17.	John C. Calhoun	42.	Harpers Ferry	67.	Gettysburg
18.	Stephen A. Douglas	43.	Election of 1860	68.	Vicksburg
19.	popular sovereignty	44.	John C. Breckinridge	69.	Gen. William T. Sherman
20.	Compromise of 1850	45.	John Bell	70.	“March to the Sea”
21.	Fugitive Slave Act of 1850	46.	Montgomery Convention	71.	Clement Vallandingham
22.	Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)	47.	Crittenden Compromise	72.	Copperheads or Peace Democrats
23.	Franklin Pierce	48.	Lincoln’s First Inaugural	73.	Election of 1864
24.	Gadsden Purchase	49.	Fort Sumter	74.	Appomattox
25.	Ostend Manifesto	50.	Jefferson Davis

Questions and Themes: Sectionalism, the Road to the Civil War, and the Civil War

Sectionalism and the Mexican War

o How did the South, North, and the West differ as sections of the country in the antebellum years?

o Why did Americans settle in Texas? How did it become an independent country in 1836? Why did the U.S. wait until Tyler’s final days in office to annex Texas? What problems did the annexation of Texas bring to the country?

o What were the countries that claimed the Oregon territory? How was the dispute eventually settled?

o In what ways did the concept of Manifest Destiny affect the foreign and domestic policies of the US in the years 1840-1850?

o What were the arguments that both sides employed for and against going to war with Mexico?

o What problems arose with the new territory gained in the Mexican Cession? How did the Mexican War exacerbate political and social tensions between the South and the North?

o How did we acquire each region of the country in the continental United States?

The Road to the Civil War

o What was the interaction among the slaves and between the slaves and the master on the plantation? Approximately, how many southerners held slaves, and in reality, how important were the slaves to the southern economy?

o How did southerners justify the institution of slavery? What were the responses of the abolitionists?

o What role did territorial expansion play in the tensions leading to the Civil War?

o How did the introduction of the Wilmot Proviso affect the North and the South?

o Why was Congress able to pass the Compromise of 1850? How did the Compromise affect the balance between the South and the North?

o What was the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin on both the North and the South?

o What specific events and/or acts were associated with the widening breach between the North and South concerning the problems of slavery? How did the events of the 1850s increase northern fears that slavery was going to spread to the new territories?

o What were the political changes in this period? What parties declined, emerged, and succeeded? Whom did each party appeal to? How did issues in the 1850s impact these parties?

o What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

o What were the constitutional implications of the Dred Scott decision? What were the practical consequences?

o What was the impact of the issues of the 1850s on the election of 1860? What was the platform of each party in the election of 1860? What were the electoral results of the election? Why did Lincoln win?

o What was the relative importance of slavery and states’ rights as factors leading to the war?

The Civil War

o What were the relative advantages and disadvantages of each side at the start of the war? How did these strengths and weaknesses determine the strategy that each side took to fight the war?

o What legislation did the Republican Party pass that was unrelated to the war? How did they impact the nation’s expansion westward?

o How did each side finance the war?

o What means did each side pursue in seeking foreign allies? Why did the Confederacy’s hope for European allies not materialize?

o What were the key turning points in the war?

o What did the Emancipation Proclamation do and not do for the slave population of the South? How did blacks contribute to the war effort?

o How did each side curtail the rights of individual private citizens?

o What impact did the war have on people’s daily lives during the war? In what ways did women contribute to the war effort?

o In what ways did the North’s goals in fighting the war change during the war?