Unit 5 - Slavery, Manifest Destiny & Civil War
Unit 5: Expansion and Division - Manifest Destiny & the Civil War: 1844-1877
I. Key Concepts: Students should be able to explain:
a. The racial, cultural and religious underpinnings of “Manifest Destiny”
b. The origins and consequences of the Mexican-American War including the question of the expansion of slavery into the Mexican cession
c. The environmental, economic, and demographic transformation of the west, including clashes with Hispanic and Native peoples
d. How U.S. interest in expanding trade led to economic, diplomatic, and cultural initiatives westward to Asia
e. The increase in European immigration and the Nativism that emerged
f. The west as a place of opportunity and refuge and the laws that aided development
g. The “Positive Good” arguments that developed to defend the “peculiar institution” of slavery vs. the increasingly urgent abolitionist sentiments in the north
h. Legal attempts to “solve” the slavery issue, including the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision
i. The issues weakening the two-party system and the emergence of sectional parties such as the Republicans prior to the Civil War
j. Why the election of Lincoln led to secession
k. How the Union and Confederacy mobilized their economies and societies to wage war as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each side of the war
l. The implications, importance, and impact of the Emancipation Proclamation
m. How, after initial success by the Confederates, the Union ultimately succeeded due to improved military leadership, more effective strategies, key victories, greater resources, and the wartime destruction of the South’s environment and infrastructure
n. How the 13th Amendment ended slavery but sharecropping continued in its place
o. The temporary successes and ultimate failure of Radical Reconstruction
p. How the rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments were weakened by Supreme Court decisions, violence, and segregation but eventually became the basis for court cases upholding civil rights
q. The lack of specific language in the 14th and 15th applying rights to women
II. Text Reading: Selected Sections from the following chapters
a. Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
b. Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840-1861
c. Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
d. Chapter 15: "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-77
I. Key Concepts: Students should be able to explain:
a. The racial, cultural and religious underpinnings of “Manifest Destiny”
b. The origins and consequences of the Mexican-American War including the question of the expansion of slavery into the Mexican cession
c. The environmental, economic, and demographic transformation of the west, including clashes with Hispanic and Native peoples
d. How U.S. interest in expanding trade led to economic, diplomatic, and cultural initiatives westward to Asia
e. The increase in European immigration and the Nativism that emerged
f. The west as a place of opportunity and refuge and the laws that aided development
g. The “Positive Good” arguments that developed to defend the “peculiar institution” of slavery vs. the increasingly urgent abolitionist sentiments in the north
h. Legal attempts to “solve” the slavery issue, including the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision
i. The issues weakening the two-party system and the emergence of sectional parties such as the Republicans prior to the Civil War
j. Why the election of Lincoln led to secession
k. How the Union and Confederacy mobilized their economies and societies to wage war as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each side of the war
l. The implications, importance, and impact of the Emancipation Proclamation
m. How, after initial success by the Confederates, the Union ultimately succeeded due to improved military leadership, more effective strategies, key victories, greater resources, and the wartime destruction of the South’s environment and infrastructure
n. How the 13th Amendment ended slavery but sharecropping continued in its place
o. The temporary successes and ultimate failure of Radical Reconstruction
p. How the rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments were weakened by Supreme Court decisions, violence, and segregation but eventually became the basis for court cases upholding civil rights
q. The lack of specific language in the 14th and 15th applying rights to women
II. Text Reading: Selected Sections from the following chapters
a. Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
b. Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840-1861
c. Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
d. Chapter 15: "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-77
Unit Notes
| unit_5_note_packet.pdf |
| 1_-_chapter_11.pptx |
| 2_-_chapter_13.pptx |
| 3_the_peculiar_institution_of_american_slavery.pdf |
| 4_-_abolition_movement.pdf |
| underground_railroad.pdf |
| immigration_and_nativism.pdf |
| 5_-_texas_oregon_and_california.pdf |
| 6_-_complete_road_to_the_civil_war_2015.ppt |
| 7_-_divided_by_war.ppt |
| emancipation_proc.pdf |
| 8_-_timeline_of_the_civil_war.ppt |
| 9_-_reconstruction.ppt |
Review Materials
| unit_5_study_guide.pdf |
| antebellum_manifestdestinyreview.ppt |
| civilwarreview.ppt |
