American Civil War

Unit 1: The Road to Secession 1787-1860

• 1.1A Evaluate the meaning  of the American Revolution.
• 1.1B Assess the key compromises over the issue of slavery.
• 1.1C Evaluate the arguments for and against slavery and its expansion.
• 1.1D Investigate the debate over slavery and its impact on party politics in the United States.
• 1.2A Investigate the American Revolution and its impact on slavery.
• 1.2B Critique the Founders’ and their handling  of slavery at the Constitutional Convention.
• 1.2C Analyze the  Constitution and slavery.
• 1.2D Contrast States’ Rights and Federal Power.
• 1.2E Assess the role of compromise in a representative democracy.
• 1.2F Evaluate how the branches of government dealt with the issue of slavery in the Antebellum period.
• 1.3A Compare and Contrast agriculture, industry, and patterns of settlement  in the North and South.
• 1.3B Assess the impact of Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the United States.
• 1.3C Summarize the conflict between Missouri and Kansas leading up to the Civil War.
• 1.4A Analyze the effects of the Market Revolution in the North.
• 1.4B Summarize  the ascendancy of cotton in the South and the national economy.
• 1.4C Analyze Free Soil and Free Labor Ideology.
• 1.5A Investigate the strategies, major publications, and arguments of abolitionists.
• 1.5B Investigate the strategies, major publications, and arguments of defenders of slavery.
• 1.5C Analyze the experience of slavery for slaves and slave owners.

Unit 2: Secession and War 1860-1865

• 2.1.A Describe the South’s taking of Fort Sumter and starting the war.
• 2.1.B Analyze chronologically the major battles, referencing: command structure, strategies, tactics, weaponry & battles.
• 2.1.C Evaluate North & South supported publications during the war’s escalation.
• 2.2.A Compare and contrast the political structures of the Federal government and of the Confederacy.
• 2.2.B Evaluate the war’s impact on government power and civil liberties.
• 2.2.C Investigate developing changes and problems within each government, North and South.
• 2.2.D Compare and contrast presidency’s of Lincoln and Davis.
• 2.3.A  Analyze important battlefield locations related to strategy and proximity to major cities. and resources (environmental and technological).
• 2.3.B Investigate guerrilla warfare and its effects in Missouri during the Civil War and afterward.
• 2.3.C Evaluate Border States land & resources.
• 2.4.A Compare the North v. South use of more effective rifled muskets coupled with old Napoleonic tactics that created higher casualties and differing economic impacts.
• 2.4.B Evaluate riots, boycotts, & rebellion by women and other groups & their economic impacts on the home front of North, South, & Border States.
• 2.5.A Analyze the key strategies and tactics used by the North v South/ Missouri state Guard forces at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek.
• 2.5.B Investigate civilian social and cultural activities: music, dance, art, & literature.

Unit 3: Reconstruction and Reunion 1863-1877

• 3.1.A Analyze the political debate over who should control the process of Reconstruction.
• 3.1.B Compare and contrast the competing notions of freedom in the American South.
• 3.1.C Investigate the journey of African Americans from property to citizen.
• 3.1.D Evaluate the historical circumstances that led to the end of Reconstruction.
• 3.1.E Assess the legacy of the Civil War.
• 3.2.A Compare and Contrast Wartime Reconstruction (10% Plan), Presidential Reconstruction (Restoration), and Radical Reconstruction (Congressional Reconstruction).
• 3.2.B Compare and Contrast Wartime Reconstruction (10% Plan), Presidential Reconstruction (Restoration), and Radical Reconstruction (Congressional Reconstruction).
• 3.2.C Investigate the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
• 3.2.D Analyze the elections of 1866, 1868, 1872, 1874 (MS), and 1876 and their results.
• 3.2.E Supreme Court Cases and Reconstruction.
• 3.3.A Investigate the purpose and impact of the military districts across the South during the period.
• 3.4.A Evaluate the effects of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the crop lien system in the South.
• 3.5.A Understand the importance of the following groups:
  • Freedmen
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Scalawags
  • Redeemers
  • Ku Klux Klan
• 3.5.B Monuments and symbols of the Civil War.