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
Before 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 |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
Reconstruction |