#4 Sectionalism,
Civil War and
Reconstruction
As upper classmen you will now be in charge of your homework with packets. On
quiz day, ½ the packet will be turned in. The entire packet is due the day of the
test. Pictures and political cartoons must also be added to “spice up” the history.
You must have the word/people/idea in bold and underlined in your packet.
Ideas and concepts must be in your own words.
The Packet:
1. Introduction Page: Title of the Unit, Your Name, My Name, Period, Due Date,
Picture-1 page
2. Sectionalism (1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Definition
c. Differences of Northern/Southern Life
d. Expansionism
e. Popular sovereignty
3. Attempts at Compromise(1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Missouri Compromise
c. Compromise of 1850
d. Kansas-Nebraska Act
e. Bleeding Kansas
4. Abolitionism(1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Definition
c. John Brown
d. William Lloyd Garrison
e. Harriet Beecher Stowe
f. Frederick Douglass
g. Harriet Tubman/Underground Railroad
5. Slavery and Politics (1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Rise of Republican Party
c. Dred Scott Decision
d. Lincoln-Douglas Debate
e. Election of 1860
f. Secession of South Carolina
6. Civil War (1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Advantages/Disadvantages of the North and South
c. Lincoln’s Inaugural
d. Emancipation Proclamation
e. Gettysburg Address
f. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
7. Reconstruction (1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Presidential Plan vs. Congressional Plan
c. Radical Republicans
d. Impeachment
e. 13th Amendment
f. 14th Amendment
g. 15th Amendment
8. Africans Americans and Reconstruction (1/2 page)
a. Picture
b. Freedmen’s Bureau
c. The New South (sharecropping, carpetbagging, scalawags)
d. Rise of the KKK
e. Jim Crow Laws (definition and examples)
f. Plessy v. Ferguson
9. Questions (1/2 page)
a. What geographic and economic factors contributed to sectional differences?
b. Why did Southerners see the election of Lincoln in 1860 as such a threat?
c. In addition to slavery, what factors contributed to the Civil War?
d. Explain the reasons for the impeachment of President A. Johnson.
e. What were the successes and failures of Reconstruction?