Unit 1: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Unit 1: The Civil War, Reconstruction, Westward Expansion

Standard: 2.1
Benchmarks: 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.4

Multiple Choice

What significant cause to the Civil War is shown here? (2.1)

• Harper's Ferry

• Election of 1860

• Compromise of 1860

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Open Ended

What are the two parts of the Anaconda plan that helped the Union be successful? (2.1)

• “With malice toward none, and charity for all, with firmness in the

right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds . . . to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves
and with all nations.”

• “I am anxious to learn about my sisters, from whom I have been

separated many years. I have never heard from them since I left
Virginia twenty four years ago. I am in hopes that they are still living
and I am anxious to hear how they are getting on. I have no other one
to apply to but you and am persuaded that you will help one who
stands in need of your services as I do. I shall be very grateful to you if
you oblige me in this matter. One of my sisters belonged to Peter
Coleman in Caroline County and her name was Jane.”

• —Hawkins Wilson, letter, 1867

Laws permitting, or even requiring, the separation of the races do not place a badge of inferiority upon one

group over another. Thus it is not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

• “If any apprentice shall leave the employment of his or her master or

mistress, without his or her consent, said master or mistress may
pursue and recapture said apprentice, and bring him or her before
any justice of the peace of the county, whose duty it shall be to
remand said apprentice to the service of his or her master or
mistress; … and if the court shall be of opinion that said apprentice
left the employment of his or her master or mistress without good
cause, to order him or her to be punished, as provided for the
punishment of hired freedmen, as may be from time to time provided
for by law for desertion …”

• An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen,

and for other Purposes, Tennessee, 1865

• “I believe it is the duty of the [African American]—as the greater part

of the race is already doing—to [act] modestly in regard to political
claims, depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed
from the possession of property, intelligence, and high character for
the full recognition of his political rights. I think that the according of
the full exercise of political rights is going to be a matter of natural,
slow growth, not an over-night, gourd-vine affair.”