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Last Chapter
Ch. 15 A Nation Divided + Chapter
16: The Civil War (7th grade)
This Chapter:
Ch. 16 and 17
Next Chapter
Ch. 18 Americans Move West
The Civil War and Reconstruction
1861-1868
Pgs 508-572
Is about:
When compromise between the North and South failed,
the United States was divided by war. In Chapter 16, you
will continue to learn about how the American Civil War
tested the strength of the bond between the states.
During the Civil War, Americans fought each other on the
battlefields and in government. Eventually the nation was
reunited, but deep scars remained. In Chapter 17, you
will learn about the rebuilding of the South after the war
came to an end.
Key Vocabulary:
Question 6
Question 1
Question 3
Sectionalism
States Rights
Slavery (Compromise of
1850 , Kansas-Nebraska
Act, Fugitive Slave Act,
Dred Scott Decision)
Union v. Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Sherman’s March to Sea Black codes
Appomattox Courthouse poll tax
segregation
Jim Crow laws
Question 4+5
Klux Klan
Reconstruction
sharecropping
Ten Percent Plan
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Wade-Davis Bill
13th, 14th, 15th amendment
Freedman’s Bureau
Lincoln’s assassination
John Wilkes Booth
carpetbaggers
scalawags
Reconstruction Acts
Question 2
emancipation
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Essential Questions for the Chapter:
1.
What were the causes of the Civil War? What were
the stats of the war? (Review from 7th grade)
2.
What was Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation”
and what effects did it have on the United States?
3.
How did the war come to an end and what were the
costs to America?
4.
What was Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
5.
How did Johnson become President? What was
President Johnson’s \Reconstruction plan?
6.
What hurdles did African Americans face as the
South attempted to rebuild?
2 weeks
Quiz on Class Expectations: _____
Ch. 17 Quiz: ______
Ch. 16 + 17 Test: ______