Unit 5: 1844-1877 Assignments and Due Dates

Brinkley Chapters 14, 15, and 16

 

**Additional Independent Research on Civil War battles. Use Edsitement as a resource.

12/14/15: Lecture: The Secession Crisis. Secession and the Civil War Interpreting Primary Sources

              Homework: Begin Chapter 14 Essential Terms. Finish Interpreting Sources

12/15/15: Review Interpreting Sources. Read The Union is Dissolved. Read Digital History The Civil War Begins.

Homework: Brinkley pages 375-378. Read Digital History Causes of the Civil War.                     

12/16/15: Review Digital History Causes of the Civil War. Begin Chart on mobilization

 Homework: Brinkley pages 378-391. Complete Chart Mobilization of the North and the South

12/17/15: Review chart. SOAPSTone on Emancipation Proclamation

Homework: Brinkley pages 391-407. Finish Chapter 14 Essential Terms.

12/18/15: Chapter 14 Essential Terms Due. Lecture Strategy and Diplomacy

Homework: Create a PowerPoint presentation to explain the significance of the Civil War in U.S. history. Address the impact of the war on the development of the North, South, and West as well as on different groups of people. What technologies were used during the Civil War (telegraph, railroad, repeating weapons, etc). Include brief biographies of major commanders during Civil War. Include a brief summary of at least 3 battles which you think were the most important of the Civil War. Include primary source documents/pictures. Include map of battle sites.

12/21/15: Continue Presentations.

            Homework: Finish presentations.

12/22/15: Review Presentations

            Homework: Chapter 14 Discussion Questions. SOAPSTone on the Gettysburg Address.

12/23/15: ½ Day.

Homework: Finish Discussion Questions and all of Chapter 14 Connect Assignments. Lincoln and Slavery Document Analysis

Christmas Break: Watch Ken Burns Civil War Series Episode 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0iBef-UGo.  Read entire Brinkley Chapter 15 and complete essential terms. Research the 3 major plans for Reconstruction: Abraham Lincoln’s 10% Plan, Andrew Johnson’s Plan, The Radical Republican Plan. Include background and any aspects of reconstruction that may have been tried before the war was over in liberated territory such as the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and in the new state of West Virginia. Read Digital History Two Plans for Reconstruction. Create a DBQ question from the time period (be sure to include 8 primary source documents).

1/4/16: Review all materials completed over Christmas Break

            Homework: Read Digital History: The Problem of Reconstruction and President Johnson Impeached

1/5/16: Review Digital History documents. SOAPSTone Charles Sumner on Reconstruction

            Homework: Complete Reconstruction Document Analysis

1/6/16: Lecture The Problems of Peacemaking-Issues/Radical Reconstruction

Homework: Read Digital History Two Paths Towards Equality. Complete Reconstruction Interpreting Primary Sources.

1/7/16: Lecture The South in Reconstruction. Complete Sharecropper Contract and questions.

             Homework: Digital History Equality Postponed, Review: The Grant Administration, Brinkley 424-425

1/8/16: Lecture The Abandonment of Reconstruction-The New South

Homework: Read Brinkley pages 443-451 and begin Chapter 16 Essential Terms. Chapter 15 Discussion Questions. Complete all Connect Chapter 15 Assignments. **Read the Disputed Election of 1876 and highlight the following: Who were the candidates? What were the issues of the campaign? What was the Compromise of 1877?

1/11/16: Research Information about the contributions of various groups that occupied the American West: Write a thesis statement and prepare an outline for: The American Indian (Plains), the Californios, missionaries, cowboys, Exodusters, the Chinese (also check out the Chinese Exclusions Act), the Homesteaders (Homestead Act), the Mormons, and the miners.

            Homework: Finish thesis/outline and review Brinkley pages 451-455.

1/12/16: Review outlines. Lecture The Romance of the West. Read Patterns of Popular Culture

Homework: Review The Dispersal of the Tribes, pages 460-466, Complete Indian Policy Interpreting Sources

1/13/16: Read Debating the Past, The Frontier and the West. Complete The Farmers Revolt Interpreting Sources

Homework: Chapter 16 Discussion Questions, Answer the following question: What contributed to the rise and decline of the Western Farmer (refer to Brinkley 466).

1/14/16: Chapter 16 Essential Terms due. Lecture Dawes Act. Unit 5 DBQ

            Homework: Finish Unit 5 DBQ, Complete all Connect Chapter 16 assignments

1/15/16: Gilder Lehrman Unit 5 Videos/Unit 5 Exam

            Homework: Finish Unit 5 Exam, Read Brinkley pages 472-480 and begin Chapter 17 Essential Terms.

 

 

Recommended Further Reading: “Released from her Obligation” South Carolina’s Secession Declaration (1860), The Gettysburg Address (1863), Abraham Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural Addresses (1861) and (1865), Review Edsitement Lessons of Reconstruction and read primary source documents, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Chinese Exclusion Act

 

Be sure to check out the Gilder Lehrman website for further documents/videos/essays, etc.

http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/5

http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/6

 

 

Digital History Sources:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=7&smtid=11

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=8&smtid=11

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtid=11

 

Extra Info:

http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/lecturesok.html