The Civil War
Unit Sheet - Honors
Reading Sections from Chapter 11
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Reading Sections from Chapter 11
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Wednesday, December 4
Quiz - Slavery and the 1850s
Election of 1860 to Fort Sumter
Causes and Outbreak of the Civil War
Advantages and Disadvantages
Thursday, December 5
Civil War Project Explanation
Honors - Directions
Academic - Directions
Rubric - download
Youtube video on how to use Google Tour Builder - link
Friday, December 6
Story of Us - Civil War
Monday, December 9
Battles - First Bull Run to Antietam
Battles Chart - fill-in while we take notes - download
Tuesday, December 10
Battles Map
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Document - link
Questions to answer
Read “Background on Emancipation Proclamation”
1. Why do you think Lincoln declared in his inaugural address that he had no intention of ending slavery or
repealing the Fugitive Slave Act?
2. How did Lincoln retain the loyalty of border states?
3. Why did the government turn away African American volunteers at the outset of the war?
4. How was the South using slaves to aid the war effort?
Read – The Emancipation Proclamation
5. In what states did the Emancipation Proclamation declare that slaves would now be free?
6. What states did the proclamation not free slaves? Why do you think Lincoln did not free slaves in these
states?
Wednesday, December 11
"Glory"
54th Massachusetts
Thursday, December 12
Finish "Glory" - discussion questions
Friday, December 13
Fredericksburg to Gettysburg
Monday, December 16
Battles - Vicksburg
Civil War Medicine
Tuesday, December 17
1864-1865
Grant moves toward Richmond
Sherman invades Georgia
Wednesday, December 18
Election of 1864
End of the War - 1865
Thursday, December 19
Civil War in NC
Results of the War
REVIEW FOR TEST - 1850s through the Civil War
Key for Battles Chart - download
Key for Battles Map - download
1850s Section
- Compromises (1850, Missouri)
- Kansas Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas, birth of Republican party)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Underground Railroad and more strict Fugitive Slave Law
- Dred Scott decision
- John Brown's Raid
Civil War
- Election of 1860 (why Lincoln won, parties/candidates)
- Battles chart (significance, description) - locate on map
- Advantages/Disadvantages
- Key decisions (Fort Sumter, Emancipation Proclamation, suspending writ of habeas corpus, Lincoln's generals)
- Turning points (Antietam, Chancellorsville, *Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Election of 1864)
- End of the war (13th amendment, why the North won)
MAP !!
Friday, Dec. 20
1850s and Civil War TEST
Project Due
RECONSTRUCTION
Honors Unit Sheet for Reconstruction - download
Academic Unit Sheet - Chapter 12 - download
Chapter 12 Reading Sections - 1, 2, 3
Monday, January 6
Life during and after Reconstruction
Questions for Activity : Looking into Reconstruction - download
Sources
Cartoon: The Ku-Klux Down South - download
Cartoon: One Vote Less - download
Letter from Edwin H. McCaleb - download
"Southern Resistance" - download
Violence toward African Americans - download
Gertrude Thomas's Journal entry - download
"A Bleak Future for Freedmen" - download
Report on the Board of Education for Freedmen - download
"I Shook Hands With Bob before They Hanged Him" - download
Song/Poem - "Good Ol' Rebel Soldier" - download
Conclusion - answer the 2 questions - at least half a page for each question
Tuesday, January 7
War is Over, Now What? What did the Civil War actually accomplish?
Presidential Reconstruction
Wednesday, January 8
The Struggle of Reconstruction Activity
- download and read each
Newspaper Article
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Lincoln's Last Public Address
In Support of the Resolution to Amend the Constitution
Amendments to the Constitution
Thursday, Jan. 9
Reconstruction in the South
Election of 1868 - Grant as President
Map
Friday, January 10
Election of 1876
End of Reconstruction
Monday, January 13
Quiz on Reconstruction