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Given that many survey classes in American History cover 1750-present in one year, it is very difficult to do much *more* than hit the high spots.
If someone told me my life depended on getting the gist of the Civil War era between the ears of a high school class in a 3-week unit, here's what I'd ensure they heard (not necessarily in this order). I have to admit, about the only people I'd mention by name would be Lee, Lincoln, Grant and Sherman...
Causes
Abolition, Free-Soil and Slave politics
Slave labor and Free labor
Westward expansion
Industrial, Mercantile and Agricultural
voting power and political divisions
Distribution of wealth
Southern war strategy
Attrition
Foreign intervention
Northern war strategy
Blockade
On to Richmond
Divide and conquer
Tennessee and Cumberland campaign
Grant's Mississippi river and Vicksburg campaign
Sherman's march to the sea
Foreign Diplomacy
Resources
Conscription/Draft/Substitutes
Taxes
Government borrowing
Impressments and seizure
Production and distribution
Home front
Medicine
Paper money
Results
Antietam - Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg - Gettysburg Address
Atlanta - reelection of Lincoln - 2nd Inaugural Address
Appomattox - Lee surrenders
Lincoln assassinated
Aftermath and reconstruction
13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Ascendancy of the Republican party
Southern status
devastated
Redemption
weakened national political power
Jim Crow and segregation
Westward Expansion
Cheers,
HankC
Last edited on Mon Oct 17th, 2005 07:32 pm by HankC