Module 5: The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1860 to 1877

During the early 1860s, westward expansion began to open up new territories in the United States. Determining if new territories would accept slavery became a major concern in Congress. The growing discord in the United States increased with a series of failed compromises, ineffective leadership, and continual disagreements between the North and South on the extension of slavery into new territories. After, anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Southern states feared they no longer had a voice in Congress and seceded from the Union. Unable to settle their differences, the North and South went to war. In this module, Martina and Terrance will guide you through the causes, start, impacts, and reconstruction efforts of the Civil War. Join Martina and Terrance as they take you through the darkest time in history of the United States.

Getting Started

Getting Started IconCivil War EventsBefore you begin this module, check to see if you can place some of the important events of the Civil War in the correct order. In this non-graded activity, drag and drop each of the events of the Civil War in the order in which they occurred. Click the player button to get started.

 

 

Key Vocabulary

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abolish
Fifteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Abolition Movement Fillmore, Millard
Scott, Dred
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter
secession
Anthony, Susan B.
Fourteenth Amendment
sectionalism
Appomattox Court House
Freedman's Bureau Seneca Falls Convention
Barton, Clara
Fugitive Slave Act
Seneca Falls Declaration
Battle of Antietam
Garrison, William Lloyd
Sherman’s March
Battle of Bull Run
Gettysburg Address
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Battle of Gettysburg
Grant, Ulysses S.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Battle of Hampton Roads
Grimke, Sarah
Ten-Percent Plan
Battle of Shiloh
Jim Crow Era
Tenure of Office Act
Battle of Vicksburg
Jim Crow Laws Thirteenth Amendment
Bleeding Kansas
Johnson, Andrew Transcontinental Railroad
Brown, John
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Truth, Sojourner
Buchanan, James
Know-Nothings
Tubman, Harriet
Civil Rights Act of 1866 Lee, Robert E.
Turner, Nat
compromise
Liberator
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Compromise of 1850 Missouri Compromise
Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1877
Mott, Lucreatia
United States Sanitary Commission
Confederate States of America
Nullification Crisis
Wade-Davis Bill
Davis, Jefferson
Pierce, Franklin
Walker, David
Dix, Dorothea
pocket-veto Washington College
Douglass, Fredrick popular sovereignty
Whigs
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Prosser, Gabriel Women’s Suffrage Movement
Election of 1860 Radical Republicans
 
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction