Unit+6--Civil+War

Lesson 1 The Civil War Lesson 2 The Trials of Reconstruction Key Concepts 5.3 The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested Reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal government. **Essential Questions **
 * To what extent was the Civil War about the abolition of slavery?
 * Was the Civil War inevitable? If so, at what point does it become so?
 * What were the advantages of each side as the Civil War began?
 * Why is Gettysburg so fixed in American memory?
 * Why did men who owned no slaves fight so passionately for the South?
 * Does Abraham Lincoln deserve to be called the Great Emancipator?
 * Was the Civil War worth its cost?
 * Was it possible to have a peace of reconciliation after the Civil War?
 * Should the South have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states?
 * To what extent was Reconstruction a reaction to the Civil War? To what extent did it provide the foundation for political, social, and economic themes for the remainder of the century?
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Can the roots of race antagonism during the 20th century be found in the 19th century attitudes of politicians, the Supreme Court, and the general populace?
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">How do we evaluate Reconstruction: a bad program that punished the South unfairly or a good program that was undermined by the racist South?
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Account for the tension between Congress and the President over Reconstruction policy.
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What was the impact of Reconstruction on African Americans?
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Is the story of western development that of rugged individualism or corporate domination? To what extent is Turner thesis correct: namely, that the frontier closed by the end of the century?
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Analyze the various "frontiers" of the Trans-Mississippi West: fur trapping, mining, cattle.
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Explain the issues that transformed the western frontier and the treatment of the indigenous people.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recommended Media for Lesson 1 **
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Civil War & Reconstruction Era <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Yale Open Courses - David Blight)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Fiery Trial <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (C-SPAN - Eric Foner)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Lincoln as War President <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Miller Center - William Lee Miller)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Lincoln as Commander in Chief <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Gilder Lehrman - James McPherson)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Gilder Lehrman - James McPherson)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Emancipation Proclamation <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Teaching American History - Allen Guelzo)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Civil War in American Memory <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Gilder Lehrman - Gary Gallagher)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Additional Websites for Lesson 1 **
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Civil War <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (PBS Site)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Civil War 150] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (History Channel Interactive)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Looking for Lincoln <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (PBS Video)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Civil War Animated] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Meet the Commanders] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Teaching American History Interactive)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|The American Civil War] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (ActiveHistory Simulation)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Debating Emancipation <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Simulation)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Gettysburg Address <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Library of Congress Collection)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Booth: The Final Days] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (History Channel Interactive)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Key Vocabulary for Lesson 1 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fort Sumter, Border States, Confederate Assets, Northern Advantages, British Diplomacy, Enrollment Act, Draft Riots, Anaconda Plan, Winfield Scott, Battle of the Ironclads, Battle of Bull Run, “Stonewall” Jackson, George McClellan, Battle of Shiloh, Ulysses S. Grant, Battle of Antietam, Robert E. Lee, Confiscation Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Wilderness Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg, Election of 1864, War Democrats, Peace Democrats, Copperheads, Union Party, Atlanta Campaign, William Tecumseh Sherman, Savannah Campaign, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Siege of Richmond, Appomattox Courthouse, John Wilkes Booth, Andersonville **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recommended Media for Lesson 2 **
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Civil War & Reconstruction Era <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Yale Open Courses - David Blight)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Significance of Reconstruction <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Gilder Lehrman - Eric Foner)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Booker T. Washington <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Teaching American History - Lucas Morel)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">W.E.B. DuBois <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Teaching American History - Lucas Morel)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Additional Websites for Lesson 2 **
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|A Visual Timeline of Reconstruction] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Digital History Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Reconstruction: A Statistical Look at Southern Recovery <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Reconstruction: The Second Civil War <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (PBS Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (UMKC School of Law Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (HarpWeek Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (PBS Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Jim Crow in America <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Library of Congress Collection)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Key Vocabulary for Lesson 2 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13th Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, “40 Acres & a Mule,” Presidential Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson, “10 Percent” Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, “State Suicide” Theory, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Radical Republicans, Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Moderate Republicans, Congressional Reconstruction, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, 14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction Act, Tenure of Office Act, 15th Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, “Scalawags,” “Carpetbaggers,” Ku Klux Klan, Force Acts, Solid South, The “New South, “ The “Lost Cause,” Redeemers, Civil Rights Cases, Jim Crow Laws, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses, Lynchings, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise,” Plessy V. Ferguson, “Separate But Equal,” W.E.B. DuBois, Niagara Movement, “Talented Tenth,” NAACP **

//**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Thursday, December 12, 2013 **//
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 14, pps. 548-556 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **

//<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Homework in preparation for Friday, December 13, 2013** //
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 14, pps. 556-568 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Monday, December 16, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 14, pps. 568-580 **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Reading Quiz**

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 6, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 587-600 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Review the videos below for homework. **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reconstruction: America's Second Revolution Video from PBS **

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> **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> After reviewing the website, what are some of the questions that the problem of "reconstructing" the South raises? **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Visit this website, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/index.html. **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Key Vocabulary **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What was the Freedman's Bureau? **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What was the 10% plan? **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Define the Wade Davis bill. **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did Johnson's plan for Reconstruction differ from that of Lincoln's? **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 7th, 2014 **


 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What do you think would have been a fair reconstruction plan? In your assigned group, review answers to these questions: **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. What should be the purpose of reconstruction? **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">a. To quickly get the southern states back into the Union with few conditions. **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">b. To get the southern states back into the Union with full equal rights for the ex-slaves. **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">c. To get the southern states back into the Union with some rights for the ex-slaves. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. Should Congress alone, the president alone, or Congress and the president together develop a reconstruction plan for the South? Why? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. While Reconstruction is being completed, should the southern states be ruled by army officers using federal troops and military courts to maintain order? Why? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. Should the civil and political rights of former Confederate civilian and military leaders be taken away forever, temporarily, or not at all? Why? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5. Should all whites in the South who want to vote be required to take a loyalty oath to the United States? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6. Should the southern states be required to ratify Amendment XIV as a condition for readmission to the Union? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7. Should southern property owners be compensated by the federal government for the destruction of their homes and businesses by the Union Army? Why? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8. Should the land of the former slave owners be confiscated and redistributed to the freedmen? Why? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">9. Should the federal government set up and fund schools for the freedmen's children? Why? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10. What civil and political rights for ex-slaves should be included in the new constitutions of the southern states? **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10. What civil and political rights for ex-slaves should be included in the new constitutions of the southern states? **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 8th, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 600-610 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * [|Reconstruction Primary Sources] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Be prepared to answer the questions.**
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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 9th, 2014 **


 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 610-616 **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Preparation for Debate. Two-Three students will be assigned to each topic. The assignments will be random. We will use today to prepare for the debate which will take place on January 10th. **


 * 1) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reconstruction created a more politically equal society. **
 * 2) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reconstruction failed to create political equality. **
 * 3) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Southern Reconstructed governments boasted many accomplishments and had a positive impact on America. **
 * 4) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reconstructed governments in the South were ultimately failures. **
 * 5) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Emancipation achieved the Radical Republican goal of integrating African Americans into society both economically and socially. **
 * 6) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Emancipation failed to integrate African Americans economically and socially into American Society. **
 * 7) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The job of Reconstruction was complete by the end of the 1870’s and the country needed to move on to other issues. **
 * 8) **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Northern Republicans brought Reconstruction to a pre-mature close and abandoned the South. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for January 10th, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Debate **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for class on January 14, 2014 **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for class on January 13, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 15, pps. 616-622 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> Reading Quiz **
 * ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Celebration of Knowledge, Chapter 15 **