Apush civil war study guide

Lessons

• Debating Union & Secession
  
• Turning Points of the Civil War

• Diplomacy & the Homefront

• Reconstruction Begins

• Reconstruction Fails

Unit 6 Study Guide

American Pageant

• Chapter 20 - Girding for War: The North & South, 1861-1865 ( Course Notes )
  
• Chapter 21 - The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865 ( Course Notes )
  
• Chapter 22 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 ( Course Notes )

Essential Questions

• What were the causes of the Civil War?
• Why did Southern states secede? Did any state have a right to leave the Union? Was Lincoln right to use military force to keep the Union intact?
• What were the major military and political turning points of the Civil War and what were their consequences?
• How did the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address frame the significance of the Civil War?
• What was the war’s impact on the home front?
• In what ways did African Americans shape the course and consequences of the Civil War & Reconstruction?
  
• How did race relations in the South change after Reconstruction, and what was the African American response?
• What were the postwar contributions of Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Frederick Douglass?
• Evaluate the following statement: "The North won the war; the South won the peace."
  

Unit Project

Roundtable Discussion on the Civil War & Reconstruction