L.+Civil+War+&+Reconstruction

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**The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)** **Organizing Principle:** //The Civil War effectively determined the nature of the Union, the economic direction of the United States, and political control of the country.//

 · Union States · Confederate States  · Border States ||  · Union  · Confederacy ||  · Ft. Sumter ||  · First Battle of Bull Run aka Battle of Manassas ||  · Antietam ||  · Gettysburg  · Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ||  · Vicksburg || · //Ex parte// Merryman, 1861 · //Ex parte// Milligan, 1866 || · Cotton Diplomacy · Trent Affair · Emancipation Proclamation || · Political · Economic · Social || · Political · Economic · Social || · Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan · President Johnson's Plan || · Presidential Reconstruction · Rationale · The Specifics · Congressional · Rationale · The Specifics || · Southern Recalcitrance · 13th/14th/15th Amendments · Reconstruction Act of 1867 || · Tenure of Office Act · Outcome || · Republican Ascendance · Scandals/Grantism · Reconstruction Policies || · Purpose · Successes · Failures || · Tenant farmers/sharecroppers · Exodusters || · Compromise of 1877 || · North · South ||
 * Who were:
 * Leadership
 * Nature of Confederate Government
 * Advantages and Disadvantages
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 * · Northern Politics ||
 * · Habeas Corpus
 * · Foreign Policy (North and South)
 * · Homestead Act ||
 * · Morrill Land Grand Act, 1862 ||
 * · Transcontinental Railroad ||
 * · Copperheads and Clement L. Vallandigham ||
 * · Impact of Civil War on North
 * · Impact of Civil War on Confederacy
 * **Reconstruction**
 * Who's in Charge?
 * · Radical Reconstruction
 * · Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
 * · Presidential Election of 1868 ||
 * · Grant’s Presidency
 * · Freedmen’s Bureau
 * · Carpetbaggers and Scalawags ||
 * · New State Constitutions ||
 * · Status of Freed Slaves
 * · Election of 1876
 * · Impact of Reconstruction (economic/political/social)