HY 1110, American History I 1 UNIT VIII STUDY GUIDE Winning the War Learning Objectives Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to: 1. Describe some of the major actions taken both by abolitionists and by those opposed to abolition prior to the Civil War. 2. Recognize how the issue of slavery and the Civil War had a direct impact on the political arena and led to political disputes. 3. Note international events of importance during this era and describe their impact on the nation. 4. Describe the role immigration played in national politics and the party schisms that resulted. 5. Identify the reasons for the secession of the Confederate states and the numerous causes of the Civil War. 6. Identify the major battles of the Civil War and the influence each had on the current tide and/or the final outcome of the war. 7. For both the Union and Confederacy, identify key figures, objectives, advantages and disadvantages, and significant strategies and be able to discern which states composed the Border States and their importance within the conflict. 8. Describe the end of the War and its aftermath. Written Lecture Unit VIII is composed of Chapters 15 and 16. This unit focuses on America as sectional tensions continued to rise to the point where the issue of slavery could no longer be suppressed within a compromise. Thus, this unit outlines the bloody battles that composed the Civil War and decided the fate of a nation. Chapter 15 provides an overview of the decade preceding the Civil War. While the impending crisis has been developing for many years, the crisis takes a life of its own during the 1850s. This chapter addresses the rising number of abolitionists in the North and the rising fears that enveloped the South. Great statesmen continued to try to avoid the crisis through legislation such as the Compromise of 1850, but as “Bleeding Kansas” clearly proved; slavery had become an issue on which neither side was willing to compromise. With the election of Lincoln, the South began to sever its ties with the Union. Chapter 16 focuses on the Civil War – the biggest clash in America’s brief history. The ideals of the founders were no longer enough to keep the struggling Union together, and these controversies finally caused the first blood of the war to be shed in the South after the presidential election of an extremely unpopular Northern politician: Abraham Lincoln. During this conflict, more Americans died than at any other point in the nation’s history. The South was largely demolished, and the hopes for the American nation rested on the renewed understanding of what freedom really was. Reading Assignment Chapter 15: The Coming Crisis, the 1850s. Chapter 16: The Civil War, 1861-1865 Supplemental Reading Instructions are below Written Lecture Learning Activities (Non Graded) Instructions are below Written Lecture Key Term.

1. HY 1110, American History I 1
UNIT VIII STUDY GUIDE
Winning the War
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Describe some of the major actions taken both by
abolitionists and by
those opposed to abolition prior to the Civil War.
2. Recognize how the issue of slavery and the Civil War had a
direct
impact on the political arena and led to political disputes.
3. Note international events of importance during this era and
describe
their impact on the nation.
4. Describe the role immigration played in national politics and
the party
schisms that resulted.
5. Identify the reasons for the secession of the Confederate
states and the
numerous causes of the Civil War.

2. 6. Identify the major battles of the Civil War and the influence
each had on
the current tide and/or the final outcome of the war.
7. For both the Union and Confederacy, identify key figures,
objectives,
advantages and disadvantages, and significant strategies and be
able to
discern which states composed the Border States and their
importance
within the conflict.
8. Describe the end of the War and its aftermath.
Written Lecture
Unit VIII is composed of Chapters 15 and 16. This unit focuses
on America as
sectional tensions continued to rise to the point where the issue
of slavery could
no longer be suppressed within a compromise. Thus, this unit
outlines the
bloody battles that composed the Civil War and decided the fate
of a nation.
Chapter 15 provides an overview of the decade preceding the
Civil War. While
the impending crisis has been developing for many years, the
crisis takes a life
of its own during the 1850s. This chapter addresses the rising
number of
abolitionists in the North and the rising fears that enveloped the
South. Great

3. statesmen continued to try to avoid the crisis through legislation
such as the
Compromise of 1850, but as “Bleeding Kansas” clearly proved;
slavery had
become an issue on which neither side was willing to
compromise. With the
election of Lincoln, the South began to sever its ties with the
Union.
Chapter 16 focuses on the Civil War – the biggest clash in
America’s brief
history. The ideals of the founders were no longer enough to
keep the struggling
Union together, and these controversies finally caused the first
blood of the war
to be shed in the South after the presidential election of an
extremely unpopular
Northern politician: Abraham Lincoln. During this conflict,
more Americans died
than at any other point in the nation’s history. The South was
largely demolished,
and the hopes for the American nation rested on the renewed
understanding of
what freedom really was.
Reading
Assignment
Chapter 15:
The Coming Crisis, the
1850s.
Chapter 16:
The Civil War, 1861-1865

4. Supplemental
Reading
Instructions are below
Written Lecture
Learning Activities
(Non Graded)
Instructions are below
Written Lecture
Key Terms
1. Bleeding Kansas
2. Compromise of 1850
3. Confederate States of
America
4. Constitutional Union
Party
5. Copperheads
6. Dred Scott decision
7. Emancipation
Proclamation
8. Fugitive Slave Law
9. Homestead Act
10. Kansas-Nebraska Act

5. 11. Know-Nothings
12. Lecompton
constitution
13. Legal Tender Act
14. Lincoln-Douglas
debates
HY 1110, American History I 2
This unit is effectively the culmination of many issues dating
back to the original
founding of America. At this time there was a need for the
rejuvenation of the
national identity and desire for freedom, opportunity, and peace.
The Civil War
was a devastating conflict felt by the entire nation, but its
outcome set the tone
for the next evolution of the American nation.
Supplemental Reading
From American History I: Primary Source Documents:
14-4: Kansas Begins to Bleed (1856)
14-5: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
14-6: Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided” (1858)

6. 15-1: Jefferson Davis, Address to the Provisional Congress of
the
Confederate States of America (1861)
15-3: Why They Fought (1861)
15-4: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
15-5: General William Tecumseh Sherman On War (1864)
Learning Activities (Non Graded)
Read the Primary Source Documents listed in the Supplemental
Reading, and
respond to the focus questions located after each document.
For a review of the Key Terms of the unit, click here to access
the interactive
Unit I Flashcards in PowerPoint form. (Click here to access a
PDF version.)
15. Morrill Land Grant Act
16. Morrill Tariff Act
17. National Bank Act
18. Panic of 1857
19. Peninsular campaign
20. Popular sovereignty
21. Republican Party
22. Thirteenth
Amendment
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