Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Panic of 1857
Crimean War in Russia had overstimulated the growing of grain. The North was hardest hit. Five thousands businesses failed. The South enjoyed favorable cotton prices. A few months before the crash the Tariff of 1857 reduced duties to 20 percent - the lowest since the War of 1812. Northern Manufacturers blamed the low tariff. The South thrived from the low tariff and cotton prices. It gave the South overconfidence in the important of "King Cotton".
Monday, 7 March 2016
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?
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?
Reconstruction
Today, you have time to finish reading and answering the questions on chapter 22. I've looked over everyone (but Sienna's answers) and made comments. You should correct or add information to the questions I commented on.
If you finish the chapter work. You can work on EDPUZZLE.
If you finish the chapter work. You can work on EDPUZZLE.
Friday, 4 March 2016
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
The Reconstruction
Read chapter 22 in The American Pageant,"The Ordeal of Reconstruction", and answer the following questions:
1) What was the fate of Confederate leaders after the Civil War?
2) What was the state of the postwar economy in the South?
3) What did emancipation mean to Southern blacks?
4) What was the 13th Amendment?
5) What was the Freedman's Bureau? Accomplishments?
6)Why was Andrew Johnson included on the Republican ticket in 1864?
7) What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
8) What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
9) What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
10) What were the black codes? Purpose?
11) What was the 14th Amendment?
12) What was the basis of the battle between Johnson and Congress?
13) What was the 15th Amendment?
14) What were the accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction state governments?
15) Why was Johnson impeached?
16) What was the Ku Klux Klan? What did they do?
17) Why was Johnson acquitted in his impeachment trial?
18) Was Reconstruction effective?
1) What was the fate of Confederate leaders after the Civil War?
2) What was the state of the postwar economy in the South?
3) What did emancipation mean to Southern blacks?
4) What was the 13th Amendment?
5) What was the Freedman's Bureau? Accomplishments?
6)Why was Andrew Johnson included on the Republican ticket in 1864?
7) What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
8) What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
9) What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
10) What were the black codes? Purpose?
11) What was the 14th Amendment?
12) What was the basis of the battle between Johnson and Congress?
13) What was the 15th Amendment?
14) What were the accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction state governments?
15) Why was Johnson impeached?
16) What was the Ku Klux Klan? What did they do?
17) Why was Johnson acquitted in his impeachment trial?
18) Was Reconstruction effective?
The Civil War
Okay - so I know we were suppose to finish notes today, but we will do this as soon as I return to class.
Today, you need to finish reading the Civil War packet I gave you last week, highlight it, and answer the multiple choice questions at the end. If one of you does not have the handout, can someone make a copy of theirs? Also, the textbook should be on my desk marked to where we left off.
Today, you need to finish reading the Civil War packet I gave you last week, highlight it, and answer the multiple choice questions at the end. If one of you does not have the handout, can someone make a copy of theirs? Also, the textbook should be on my desk marked to where we left off.
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Civil War
Today - hopefully, we are going to go over your section summaries and then discuss why the South lost the war. We will also talk about the following:
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
Reconstruction
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
Reconstruction
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