Standards
SSUSH9 Evaluate key events, issues, and individuals relating to the Civil War.
SSUSH10 Identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.
SSUSH10 Identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.
Key Battles:
Antietam
State: Maryland.
Year: 1862
Military Leadership: Robert E Lee, George McClellan.
Who Won: Union.
Casualties: 22,717.
Vicksburg
State: Mississippi.
Year: 1863
Leadership: Ulysses S. Grant
Won: Union
Casualties: 4,835
Gettysburg
State: Pennsylvania.
Year: 1863
Leadership: Robert E Lee, George G Meade.
Won: Union
Casualties: 51,112
Atlanta
State: Georgia
Year: 1864
Leadership: William T Sherman, John B Hood.
Won: Union
Casualties: 12,100.
State: Maryland.
Year: 1862
Military Leadership: Robert E Lee, George McClellan.
Who Won: Union.
Casualties: 22,717.
Vicksburg
State: Mississippi.
Year: 1863
Leadership: Ulysses S. Grant
Won: Union
Casualties: 4,835
Gettysburg
State: Pennsylvania.
Year: 1863
Leadership: Robert E Lee, George G Meade.
Won: Union
Casualties: 51,112
Atlanta
State: Georgia
Year: 1864
Leadership: William T Sherman, John B Hood.
Won: Union
Casualties: 12,100.
Sherman and his army marched from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything as he went. He didn't destroy Savannah however, and gave it to Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
Reconstruction
13th Amendment: Abolished slavery.
14th Amendment: Citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the United States.
15th Amendment: All men could vote.
14th Amendment: Citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the United States.
15th Amendment: All men could vote.
Plessy V. Ferguson
Separate but equal.
Compromise of 1877
Settled the 1876 presidential election. The national government pulled the last of the remaining troops out of Louisiana.