Study
Guide – Unit 5 – Sectionalism, Road to the Civil War, the Civil War and
Reconstruction
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Date
Due |
Assignment |
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Weds., Oct. 29 |
1. Read p. 382 - 391 2. Answer questions 1 – 4 |
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Thurs., Oct. 30 |
Be prepared for the Debate
on War with Mexico |
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Fri., Oct. 31 |
1. Read p. 392 - 398 2. Answer questions 5 – 6 3. Read Calhoun’s and
Webster’s speech excerpts on the Compromise of 1850 and make margin notes
about their main arguments. |
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Mon., Nov. 3 |
1. Read p. 398 - 406 2. Answer questions 7 - 9 |
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Tues., Nov. 4 |
1. Read p. 406 - 410 2. Read the excerpts from
the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and make margin notes on their major arguments. 3. Answer questions 10 - 11 |
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Weds., Nov. 5 |
1. Topic Selection due
for Research Paper 2. Watch the election returns |
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Thurs., Nov. 6 |
1. Read p. 412-418 2. Answer question 12 |
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Fri., Nov. 7 |
Read the excerpts on “ |
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Weds., Nov. 12 |
1. Quiz on the material up
to the outbreak of the war 2. Read p. 418 - 425 3. Answer questions 13 - 15 |
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Thurs., Nov. 13 |
1. Read p. 426 - 432 2. Answer questions 16 and
17 |
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Mon., Nov. 17 |
1. DBQ Due 2. Work on your
bibliography |
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Tues., Nov. 18 |
1. Read 432 - 440 2. Answer questions 18 – 20 |
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Weds., Nov. 19 |
1. Read the Gettysburg
Address and take notes on what 2. Read Lincoln’s Second
Inaugural and take notes on what |
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Thurs., Nov. 20 |
1. 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. 2. Work on your
bibliography |
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Fri., Nov. 21 |
1. Do your assigned
presidential chart 2. Preliminary bibliography due |
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Mon., Nov. 24 |
Test |
Reading Questions
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1. |
List the events leading to
Texan independence. Make sure you understand item on your list. |
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2. |
What was Manifest Destiny? |
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3. |
Briefly summarize the
issues and results of the election of 1844. |
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4. |
List the events leading to
and during the War with Mexico. Make
sure you understand items on your list. |
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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. |
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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. 399. |
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7. |
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. |
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8. |
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. |
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9. |
Summarize the three main
points of the Dred Scott decision. Why was this such
a thunderclap in politics? |
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10. |
In two columns, outline
the arguments of both Douglas and Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
using both your textbook and the excerpts you were given. |
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11. |
Make a bullet-point list
summarizing the 1860 election |
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12. |
Make of a detailed list of
the events between Lincoln’s victory in November, 1860 to the secession of
AR, TN, NC, and VA |
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13. |
What moves did the Union
take to keep the border states (DE, MD, KY, and MO) in the Union? |
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14. |
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. |
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15. |
Summarize the information
on how each side mobilized for fighting the war. |
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16. |
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.” |
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17. |
What did the Emancipation
Proclamation actually say and what effect did it have on the war? |
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18. |
What was the role of black
soldiers in the war? |
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19. |
Summarize the information
on the election of 1864. |
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20. |
What was the effect of |
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Identifications and Sectionalism and the Civil War
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1. |
Stephen Austin |
26. |
Kansas-Nebraska
Act (1854) |
51. |
Anaconda
Plan |
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2. |
General Santa Anna |
27. |
Republican
Party (1854) |
52. |
First
Bull Run (Manassas) |
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3. |
Alamo
and Goliad |
28. |
American
or Know-Nothing Party |
53. |
Ex Parte Merryman
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4. |
Battle
of San Jacinto |
29. |
Lecompton
Constitution |
54. |
Gen.
George B. McClellan |
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5. |
Sam
Houston |
30. |
Bleeding
Kansas |
55. |
Gen.
Robert E. Lee |
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6. |
Manifest
Destiny |
31. |
Lawrence,
KS |
56. |
Gen.
Stonewall Jackson |
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7. |
Oregon
Boundary Dispute |
32. |
John
Brown |
57. |
Monitor
and the Merrimac |
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8. |
Election
of 1844 |
33. |
The
caning of Senator Charles Sumner |
58. |
Antietam |
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9. |
James
K. Polk |
34. |
James
Buchanan |
59. |
Gen.
Ulysses Grant |
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10. |
Henry
Clay |
35. |
John
C. Fremont |
60. |
Conscription
Act 1862 |
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11. |
Annexation
of Texas |
36. |
Election
of 1856 |
61. |
Enrollment
Act 1863 |
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12. |
Oregon
Treaty of 1846 |
37. |
Dred
Scott v. Sanford (1857) |
62. |
New
York City Draft Riots |
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13. |
Wilmot
Proviso |
38. |
Roger
B. Taney |
63. |
Dorothea
Dix |
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14. |
Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
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39. |
Abraham
Lincoln |
64. |
Clara
Barton |
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15. |
Zachary
Taylor |
40. |
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates (1858) |
65. |
Homestead
Act of 1862 |
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16. |
Gold
Rush |
41. |
Freeport
Doctrine |
66. |
Emancipation
Proclamation 1862 |
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17. |
John
C. Calhoun |
42. |
Harpers
Ferry |
67. |
Gettysburg
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18. |
Stephen
A. Douglas |
43. |
Election
of 1860 |
68. |
Vicksburg |
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19. |
popular
sovereignty |
44. |
John
C. Breckinridge |
69. |
Gen. William T.
Sherman
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20. |
Compromise
of 1850 |
45. |
John
Bell |
70. |
“March
to the Sea” |
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21. |
Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850 |
46. |
Montgomery
Convention |
71. |
Clement
Vallandingham |
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22. |
Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) |
47. |
Crittenden
Compromise |
72. |
Copperheads
or Peace Democrats |
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23. |
Franklin
Pierce |
48. |
Lincoln’s
First Inaugural |
73. |
Election
of 1864 |
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24. |
Gadsden
Purchase |
49. |
Fort
Sumter |
74. |
Appomattox
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25. |
Ostend
Manifesto |
50. |
Jefferson
Davis |
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Questions and Themes:
Sectionalism, the Road to the Civil War, and the Civil War
Sectionalism and the Mexican War
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How did the
South, North, and the West differ as sections of the country in the antebellum
years?
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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?
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What were the
countries that claimed the Oregon territory?
How was the dispute eventually settled?
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In what ways
did the concept of Manifest Destiny affect the foreign and domestic policies of
the US in the years 1840-1850?
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What were the
arguments that both sides employed for and against going to war with Mexico?
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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?
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How did we
acquire each region of the country in the continental United States?
The Road to the Civil War
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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?
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How did
southerners justify the institution of slavery? What were the responses of the
abolitionists?
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What role did
territorial expansion play in the tensions leading to the Civil War?
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How did the
introduction of the Wilmot Proviso affect the North and the South?
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Why was
Congress able to pass the Compromise of 1850?
How did the Compromise affect the balance between the South and the
North?
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What was the
impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin on both the North
and the South?
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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?
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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?
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What was the
impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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What were the
constitutional implications of the Dred Scott decision? What were the practical consequences?
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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?
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What was the
relative importance of slavery and states’ rights as factors leading to the
war?
The Civil War
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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?
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What
legislation did the Republican Party pass that was unrelated to the war? How
did they impact the nation’s expansion westward?
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How did each
side finance the war?
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What means did
each side pursue in seeking foreign allies? Why did the Confederacy’s hope for
European allies not materialize?
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What were the
key turning points in the war?
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What did the
Emancipation Proclamation do and not do for the slave population of the South?
How did blacks contribute to the war effort?
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How did each
side curtail the rights of individual private citizens?
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What impact did
the war have on people’s daily lives during the war? In what ways did women contribute to the war
effort?
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In what ways
did the North’s goals in fighting the war change during the war?