AP
Wednesday, 9 November
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and its
Legacy: Outline due for stamping
Thursday, 10 November
TERM PAPER DUE
Quiz Chapter 17*
Monday, 14 November
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional
Struggle: Outline due for stamping
Tuesday, 15 November
Quiz Chapter 18*
Wednesday, 16 November
Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion: Outline due for stamping
Friday, 18 November
Quiz Chapter 19* ( or 17, 18, and 19 or
18 and 19 )
Monday, 21 November
DBQ #2 (on chapters 13-19 with an emphasis on
chapters 16-19)
Chapter 17-19 Outlines Due
Monday, 28 November……………………..
Chapter 20: Girding for War: North and
South, 1861-1865: Outline due for
stamping
Chapter 21: Furnace of Civil War,
1861-1865: Outline due for stamping
Quiz Chapters 20-21 and Civil War Assignment (TBA) Due
Thursday, 1 December
Chapter 22: The Ordeal Reconstruction: Outline due for stamping
Monday, 5 December
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the
Gilded Age: Outline due for stamping
Quiz Chapters 22-23
Monday-Friday, 5-9 December
TERM PAPER WEB PAGE LAB TIME
Friday, 10 December
TERM PAPER (PRINTED), GRADED DRAFT AND WEB PAGE DISK DUE
Monday, 12 December
TERM PAPER
WEB PAGE CORRECTIONS DUE (Fixing links, images, etc.)
Tues.-Thurs., 14-16 December
Final Exams:
Chapters 1-24 / 20% of SEMESTER GRADE
Chapter 20-24 Outlines Due
Chapter 17: genteel, default, repudiate, intrigue, protectorate,
dark horse, predecessor, indemnity, lionized, quibble
John
Tyler, Zachary Taylor, David Wilmot, John Slidell, Nicholas Trist,
Robert Gray, Winfield Scott, James K. Polk, John C. Fremont, Lord Ashbuton, Stephen W. Kearny, joint resolution, Manifest
Destiny, Fiscal Bank, Bear Flag Revolt, Webster-Ashburton
Treaty, Caroline, "all of Mexico," Tariff of 1842, Californios, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
Liberty Party, Wilmot Proviso, Aroostook War, Walker Tariff
·
What
led to the rise of the spirit of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s, and how did
that spirit show itself in the American expansionism of the decade?
·
How
did rivalry with
·
Why
did the crucial election of 1844 come to be fought over expansionism, and how
did Polk exercise his "mandate" for expansion in his reach for
·
What
were the causes and consequences of the Mexican War?
·
How
was the Manifest Destiny of the 1840s related to the sectional conflict over
slavery?
Chapter 18: vigilante, topography, mundane, filibuster, consulate,
isthmus, vanquished, ominously, sovereignty, pygmies
Chapter 19: forensic, apportionment, affidavit, vassalage,
indictment, deluged, mediocre, fire-eater, homesteads, conscientiously
Lewis
Cass, Stephen Douglass, Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor, John C. Calhoun,
Winfield Scott, M.V. Buren, Daniel Webster, Matthew Perry, Harriet Tubman, William Seward, James Gadsden, Henry Clay, Millard
Fillmore, popular sovereignty, filibustering, Free Soil Party, Fugitive Slave
Law, “conscience” Whigs, Underground Railroad, Compromise of 1850, "fire
eaters," Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Seventh of March
Speech, Ostend Manifesto, “higher law,” Harriet
Beecher Stowe, John C. Fremont, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Bell, Hinton R.
Helper, Dred Scott, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown,
Roger Taney, Jefferson Davis, James Buchanan, John Breckenridge, John
Crittenden, Charles Sumner, self-determination, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Impending
Crisis of the South, Pottawatomie massacre, Lecompton Constitution, “Bleeding
Kansas,” American (Know-Nothing) Party, panic of 1857, Lincoln-Douglas debates,
Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry raid, Constitutional Union Party, Crittenden
Compromise
·
What
urgent issues created the crisis leading up to the Compromise of 1850?
·
How
did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issues
concerning slavery? What were the compromise's effects?
·
Why
were proslavery southerners so eager to push for further expansion in
·
What
were the causes and consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
·
Why
could sectional issues be compromised in 1820 and 1850, but not in 1854?
·
How
did each of the crisis events of the 1850s help lead toward the Civil War?
·
What
role did violence play in increasing the sectional conflict?
·
How
did the political developments of the period work to fragment the Democratic
Party and benefit the Republicans?
·
What
were the causes and consequences of
Chapter 20: arbitration, appropriation, habeas corpus,
moral suasion, arbitrary, quota, greenback, peculator, profiteer, loopholed
Chapter 21: mediation, flank, garrison, implore, reconnaissance,
squadrons, obsolete, logistics, irretrievably, riffraff
Napoleon
III, Maximilian, Charles Francis Adams, Clara Barton, William Seward, Edwin M
Stanton, Jefferson Davis, Morrill Tariff Act, National Banking Act, Trent
affair, Alabama, King Cotton, draft riots, Clement Vallendigham,
J.W. Booth, Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant,
George McClellan, William Sherman, George B. Meade, Salmon P. Chase, David Farragut, George Pickett,
Merricmack/Virginia, Monitor,
Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, Copperheads, Union Party, First
Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, doctrine of
ultimate destination/continuous voyage
·
How
did the Civil War change from a war of preserving union to one of abolishing
slavery?
·
How
did careful Union diplomacy manage the Civil War crisis with
·
How
did the North and the South each handle their economic and human-resource
needs?
·
What
impact did the draft, the use of black troops, and
·
How
did the military stalemate of 1861-62 affect both sides in the Civil War?
·
What
were the primary military strategies of each side?
·
What
were the costs of the Civil War to the nation as a whole? What issues were
settled by the war, and what new problems were created?
Chapter 22-23: posthumously, bootstrap, dogmatic, sharecrop,
peonage, scalawag, carpetbagger, integrated, interloper, odious
Oliver
O. Howard, Andrew Johnson, Alexander Stephens, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles
Sumner, William Seward, Freedmen's Bureau, 10% plan, Wade-Davis Bill,
"conquered provinces," radical Republicans, Black Codes,
sharecropping, Civil Rights Act, 14th and 15th Amendments, Military
Reconstruction Act, scalawags, Ex parte Milligan,
carpetbaggers, KKK, Force Acts, Tenure of Office Act, "Seward's
Folly," Ulysses S. Grant, Horatio Seymour, Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley, Jay Cooke, Roscoe Conkling,
James G. Blaine, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, James Garfield, Chester
Arthur, Winfield Hancock, Charles Guiteau, Grover
Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Reed, William McKinley, James B. Weaver,
Tom Watson, Adlai E. Stevenson, William Jennings Bryan, J.P. Morgan, soft/cheap
money, hard/sound money, contraction, resumption, Gilded Age, spoils system,
crop-lien system, pork-barrel bills, populism, grandfather clause, “Ohio Idea,”
Tweed Ring, Credit Mobilier, Liberal Republicans,
Resumption Act, Bland-Allison Act, Greenback Labor Party, Grand Army of the
Republic, Stalwart, Half-Breed,
Compromise of 1877, Pendleton Act, Mugwumps,
“Redeemers,” Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim
Crow, Chinese Exclusion Act, People’s Party/Populists, Sherman Silver Purchase
Act, McKinley Tariff
·
What
were the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War?
How did Reconstruction address or fail to address them?
·
How
did freed blacks react to the end of slavery? How did northern and southern
whites react?
·
How
did the white South's intransigence and President Johnson's political bungling
open the way for the congressional Rep. program of
Reconstruction?
·
What
was the purpose of the Congress' Reconstruction program? What were its effects
in the South?
·
Why
did Reconstruction apparently fail so badly?
·
What
made politics in the Gilded Age extremely popular (80% participation) yet so
often corrupt and unconcerned with issues?
·
What
were causes and effects of the Grant Administration’s scandals?
·
How
and why did the civil service emerge to replace political patronage?
·
How
did the politics of the Gilded Age still partially reflect the aftermath of the
Civil War and Reconstruction?
Leland Stanford, Collis
Huntington, James Hill, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas
Edison, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J P Morgan, Terence Powderly, Samuel Gompers, land
grant, stock watering, pool, rebate, vertical/horizontal integration, trust,
interlocking directorate, capital goods, plutocracy, injunction, Union Pacific,
Central Pacific, Grange, Wabash case, Bessemer process, US Steel, gospel of
wealth, William Graham Sumner, New South, yellow dog contract, National Labor
Union, Haymarket riot, AFL