Unit 5
January 6
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1844-1877
Manifest Destiny & The Mexican-American War
American History, pgs. 348-359
Class Activity
Discuss the themes of Manifest Destiny while examining John
Gast’s 1872 painting, American Progress, as well as excerpts
from John L. O’Sullivan’s 1839 essay “The Great Nation of
Futurity.”
January 8
The Mexican Cession and the Sectional Debate
American History, pgs. 359-369 (The Emergence of Lincoln)
Read-“Mexican Cession and the Compromise of 1850”
January 11
Opposing Viewpoints #1
January 12
The Election of 1860 and Civil War
American History, pgs. 369-384 (The Politics of Emancipation)
Class Activity
Working in groups of three, and using the following articles as
a basis for their arguments, students will have a class
discussion focused on the question: “What caused the Civil
War?”
1. “The Economic Origins of the Civil War” by Marc Egna
2. "The Political Origins of the Civil War” by Jonathan Earle
3. “Slavery, the Constitution, and the Origins of the Civil
War” by Paul Finkelman
January 14
Lincoln’s Leadership: Emancipation and Gettysburg
American History, pgs. 384-395 (The Course of Battle)
Read-Rick Jones, “Lincoln Advanced Democracy,” The Standard
Examiner, (2012)
Class Activity
Video-10 Days that Expectantly Changed America, “Antietam”
January 16
A New Birth of Freedom: The 13th Amendment
Class Activity
Students will present their viewpoint on who freed the slaves,
choosing from one of the following options: Congress,
President Lincoln, the military, or African Americans. In
addition, students will explain why the other three options
were not as effective as their options.
All students will do a close read of the article “Who Freed the
Slaves?” by James McPhearson, and complete a concept map.
Primary Source Document Analysis #3
January 18
DBQ #5
January 22
Presidential v. Congressional Reconstruction
American History, pgs. 412-418 (The South in Reconstruction)
Read-Daniel Farber’s “Much Older than the Constitution”:
Lincoln’s Theory of Nationhood, OAH.
January 25
Six Degrees of Separation: The Wilmot Proviso to the
Compromise of 1877
January 26
A Freedman’s Life in the Reconstructed South
American History, pgs. 418-424 (The Grant Administration)
Read-Leon F. Litwack, “Jim Crow Blues,” OAH (2004)
January 28
Reconstruction Ends
American History, pgs. 424-430 (The New South)
Read-“Reconstruction to Redemption”
January 30
The New South
American History, pgs. 430-441
Vocabulary
John L. O'Sullivan
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Trail
"54° 40' or Fight!"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
popular sovereignty
Free-Soil Party
personal liberty laws
Compromise of 1850
omnibus bill
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
Fugitive Slave Act
Stephen Douglas
Ostend Manifesto (1854)
"Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Republican Party
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Freeport Doctrine
Crittenden Compromise
Confederate States of America
Homestead Act (1862)
writ of habeas corpus
General George B. McClellan
13th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Jefferson Davis
William Seward
Anaconda Plan
Battle of Antietam (1862)
Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
Freedman's Bureau
Radical Republicans
Ten Percent Plan
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Black Codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th. Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
15th. Amendment
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
sharecropping
tenantry
Force [KKK] Acts of 1870/1871
Social Darwinism
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compromise of 1877
Redeemers
Plessey v. Ferguson (1896)