Study Guide – Unit Two: From Dred Scott to Fort Sumter

 

Date Due

Assignment

Weds., Jan. 7

1. Read p. 170 – 189

2. Answer questions 1-5

3. Read the section of the Lincoln-Douglas debate that you have been assigned and be prepared to summarize the points.

Thurs., Jan. 8

1. Be prepared for your skit

2. Read p. 189-201

3. Answer questions 6 - 8.

Fri., Jan. 9

Read p. 202 – 213

2. Answer questions 9 - 10

Mon., Jan. 12

1. Read p. 213 – 221

2. Answer questions 11 - 13

Tues., Jan. 13

1. Read p. 221 – 233

2.  Answer questions 14 - 15

Weds., Jan. 14

There will be a quiz today on the material to this point.  ( p. 170 - 233) You may use your reading questions and answers on the quiz.

Thurs., Jan. 15

1. Read p. 234 – 246 

2. Read the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession

3. Answer questions 16 - 18

Tues., Jan. 20

1. Read your assigned section and answer the appropriate questions

A. p. 246 – 253 (top) and answer questions 19 & 20

B. Read p. 253 – 259 and answer questions 21 & 22

2. Everyone read p. 259 -261 and Lincoln’s First Inaugural and answer questions 23 & 24

Weds., Jan. 21

Workday for your battle presentations

Thurs., Jan. 22

1. Read p. 264 – 282. Take notes on Lincoln’s options as he faced the crisis at Fort Sumter and what happens in the Upper South states afterwards.

2. Read your materials for the Fort Sumter simulation

Fri., Jan. 23

Review for the test and/or work on your battle plan

Mon., Jan. 26

Test

Tues., Jan. 27

Battle Plan Due

 

Questions and Themes for Unit Two: Dred Scott to Fort Sumter

·         What were the arguments that Roger Taney put forth in the Dred Scott decision and how did others combat those arguments?

·         What was the political effect of the Dred Scott decision on the Democrats and the Republicans?

·         What responses did Douglas and Lincoln each have to the Dred Scott decision

·         What arguments did both Lincoln and Douglas make in their debates?

·         What were the causes and effects of the Panic of 1857?

·         What were the issues in addition to slavery that divided people in the 1850s?

·         Why did Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry fail? What were the repercussions of the raid?

·         Why did Southern Democrats deny Douglas their support? What happened at the Charleston and Baltimore conventions for the Democrats?

·         What happened at the Republican convention in Chicago?  Why did Lincoln emerge as the nominee?

·         How did the parties conduct the campaign of 1860 and what were the issues for each party? Why did Lincoln win? 

·         What were the debates within the South about secession? What arguments did secessionists give for leaving the Union?

·         What were the various responses in the North to secession?  What was Buchanan’s response?  Leading  Republicans?  Lincoln?

·         What were the various compromise proposals put forward to avert the war?  Why did they not succeed?

·         What was in the Confederate Constitution and how did it differ from the U.S. Constitution?

·         What were the difficulties that Lincoln faced in putting together his cabinet?

·         What were the themes of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address?

·         What did Buchanan do in the Lame Duck period between Lincoln’s election and inauguration

·         What were the choices facing Lincoln in the crisis at Fort Sumter?  How did events follow after the firing on Fort Sumter?  Why do the four Upper South states secede and what effect will that have?

·         How did Lincoln choose to resolve the Fort Sumter conundrum?

 

Identifications

1.

Dred Scott

22.

William Seward,  the “Irrepressible Conflict” speech

43.

Secession Commissioners

2.

Roger Taney

23.

Charleston Democratic convention

44.

Mayor Fernando Wood of NYC

3.

obiter dictum

24.

Alexander H. Stephens

45.

Buchanan’s Farewell Address

4.

Douglas’ Springfield speech

25.

Baltimore Democratic convention

46.

Gen.-in-Chief Winfield Scott

5.

Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech

26.

John C. Breckinridge

47.

Crittenden Compromise

6.

Lemmon v. The People

27.

Chicago Republican convention

48.

Montgomery Convention

7.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

28.

Wide Awakes

49.

Confederate Constitution

8.

Freeport Doctrine

29.

Salmon P. Chase

50.

Edward Bates

9.

Panic of 1857

30.

Hannibal Hamlin

51.

Simon Cameron

10.

Homestead act

31.

Constitutional Union Party

52.

Caleb Smith

11.

Pacific railroad act

32.

John Bell

53.

Gideon Welles

12.

Land grant act

33.

Carl Schurz

54.

Montgomery Blair

13.

Federal slave code

34.

Horace Greeley, NY Tribune

55.

Lincoln’s whistle-stop tour

14.

King Cotton

35.

James Buchanan

56.

The Baltimore assassination plot

15.

Mudsills

36.

Sect. Of War John Floyd

57.

Lincoln’s First Inaugural

16.

George Fitzhugh

37.

Election campaign of 1860

58.

Fort Moultrie

17.

Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis

38.

Sen. John J. Crittenden

59.

Fort Sumter

18.

John Sherman

39.

Election results

60.

Maj. Robert Anderson

19.

“Secret Six”

40.

S.C. Secession Declaration

61.

Star of the West

20.

Harper’s Ferry

41.

Jefferson Davis

62.

Fort Pickens

21.

Cooper Union Speech

42.

Secession Conventions in other states

63.

Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard