Goal 3 Outline

							                                  Goal 3 Outline
Competency Goal 3: Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1848-1877) — The
learner will analyze the issues that led to the Civil War, the effects of the war, and
the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.

Objectives
3.01 Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the
outbreak of the Civil War.
3.02 Analyze and assess the causes of the civil War.
3.03 identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their
significance to the outcome of the conflict
3.04 Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on the
nation and identify the reason why Reconstruction came to an end.
3.05 Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a
test of the supremacy of the national government

   I.      Recap of Mexican American War
           a. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
           b. Impact of war

   II.     James K Polk’s Presidency
           a. Wilmot Proviso
           b. 1848 election
                   i. Conscience Whigs
                  ii. Cotton Whigs
                 iii. Free Soil Party

   III.    Zachary Taylor/Millard Fillmore’s Presidencies
           a. Forty-Niners
           b. Compromise of 1850
                   i. Views of Calhoun, Clay, Webster
                  ii. Outcome
                 iii. Fugitive Slave Act
                 iv. Popular Sovereignty

   IV.     Rising Tensions and key events prior to the Civil War
           a. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
           b. Underground Railroad
           c. Transcontinental Railroad
           d. Bleeding Kansas
           e. Sumner Caning
           f. Political Parties
                   i. Whigs
                  ii. Democrat
                 iii. Liberty
             iv. Free Soil
              v. Republican
             vi. Know-Nothings
     g.   Election of 1856
     h.   Dred Scott Decision
     i.   Lecompton Constitution
     j.   Lincoln Douglas Debates
     k.   Raid on Harper’s Ferry
               i. John Brown
     l.   Lincoln’s election in 1860
               i. Secession
              ii. Crittendon’s Compromise
             iii. Confederate States of America
                      1. Jefferson Davis

V.   Civil War
     a. Confederate states, Border states, Union states
     b. Ft. Sumter
     c. The South
              i. Advantages and disadvantages
             ii. Financing the War
           iii. Government problems
            iv. Leaders
                    1. Lee
                    2. Jackson
             v. Strategy
                    1. Blockade runners
            vi. Economy during the wa
     d. North
              i. Advantages and disadvantages
             ii. Financing the War
                    1. Legal Tender Act
                    2. Greenbacks
           iii. Leaders
                    1. Grant
                    2. McClellan
            iv. Strategy
                    1. Anaconda Plan
                    2. Blockade
             v. Economy during the war
     e. Other war events
              i. New technology and military tactics
             ii. Conscription and draft
           iii. Emancipation Proclamation
            iv. 54th Massachusetts
             v. Military Life
                     1. Scarcity
                     2. food
                             a. hardtack
                     3. medicine
                     4. prisons
            vi. Role of women
                     1. Florence Nightingale
                     2. Clara Barton
                     3. Elizabeth Blackwell
      f. Battles
              i. First Battle of Bull Run
             ii. Battle of Shiloh
           iii. Antietam
            iv. New Orleans
             v. Vicksburg
            vi. Chacellorsville
           vii. Gettysburg
                     1. Pickett’s Charge
                     2. Aftermath
                     3. Gettysburg Address
          viii. Chattanooga
            ix. Cold Harbor
             x. March to the Sea
                     1. William “Tecumseh” Sherman
                     2. pillage
            xi. Appomattox Courthouse
                     1. Surrender
      g. Conclusion of the War
              i. 13th amendment
             ii. Lincoln’s Assassination
                     1. John Wilkes Booth

VI.   Reconstruction
      a. Lincoln’s Plan
              i. Amnesty
      b. Radical Republicans
              i. Thaddeus Stevens
             ii. Wade-Davis Bill
      c. Freedmen’s Bureau
      d. Andrew Johnson
              i. Plan for Reconstruction
      e. Black Codes
      f. Reconstruction Amendments
              i. 13th amendments
             ii. 14th amendments
            iii. 15th amendments
g. Military Reconstruction Acts
h. Tenure of Office Act
       i. Impeaching Johnson
i. Republicans in the South
       i. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
      ii. African Americans
              1. Politics
              2. Communities
j. Resistance to Reconstruction
       i. Ku Klux Klan
              1. Enforcement Acts
k. Ulysses S. Grant’s Presidency
       i. Sin Tax
      ii. Belknap Bribery
     iii. Whiskey Ring
     iv. Panic of 1873
l. End of Reconstruction
       i. Compromise of 1877
              1. Rutherford B. Hayes
      ii. New South
              1. Sharecropping
              2. Tenant Farming
              3. Crop Liens
              4. Debt peonage