Test Review

 UNIT GOAL:  Students will be able to analyze how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

Civil War causes (according to handout packet): 1) Slavery - moral issue in North vs. defense of expansion in South; 2) Constitutional disputes over State vs. Federal Union rights/powers; 3) Economic Differences - industrialized North vs. agricultural South; 4) Political blunders and extremism


Mexican-American War
Settlement of the West - Free Soil Party, Southern View, Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Southern defense of Slavery (it's good for both the slave and slave master - better than labor-slaves)
Kansas-Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas"
Beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate (by Preston Brooks)
Dred Scott Case
Uncle Tom's Cabin
John Brown
Lincoln-Douglas debates 
Panic of 1857
Election of 1860
Session by Southern States 

How the essay is graded--by AP rubric that looks at the following things:

1) Thesis Statement (specific and exact that doesn't just repeat the prompt)
2) Generalizations that back up thesis statement
3)-4) Analysis of specific examples that reinforce generalizations
5) Display of historical thinking skills (causation and/or continuity and change over time)
6) Conclusion with includes synthesis of information and discuss how the subject matter either shaped the nation or connects with what comes next (like Reconstruction or the future of blacks in America, etc).


THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION:

1) What happened to the Confederate leaders after the war?
2) 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments - and why these fail in some ways after 1876
3) Various plans for Reconstruction - Lincoln, Wade-Davis, Johnson's.
4) Black Codes and the Klu Klux Klan
5) Presidents: Johnson, Grant, Hayes
6) Why Reconstruction failed.

(Think economic freedom)

Other things to know:

John Brown
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Jeb Stuart
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
East vs. West
Shiloh
Antietam
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Petersburg
Appomattox Courthouse
Lincoln's Assassination



What disadvantages did the South face?

Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?

What were the three main strategies of the Union?

What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?

What was the outcome of Bull Run?

Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.

What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?

What did the 13th Amendment do?

How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?

Discuss the draft laws in the north.

Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?

Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?

What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?