Note: The following outline has been updated for the Fall 2013 semester.
38. The Impending Crisis
- Straws upon the Camel's Back
- Harper’s Ferry (1859)
- Election of 1860
- Myth of the Lost Cause
- Secession
- SC
- Lower South
- Decision-making by Lincoln and Davis
- Jefferson Davis
- Abraham Lincoln
- Is it prudent to re-supply Ft. Sumter?
39. The Civil War, Part 1
- Secession
- SC and the Lower South
- Ft. Sumter
- Upper South
- Not Border States
- Civil War or Northern Agression?
- Crittenden Resolution
- Slavery Union or Constitutional Union?
- Preview of Major Military Campaigns
- CSA wins in the East; Union wins in the West
- Gettysburg, March to the Sea, CSA Surrenders
40. The Civil War, Part 2
- CSA Victories in the East, 1861-1862
- Bull Run I (CSA)
- Peninsular Campaign (CSA)
- Bull Run II (CSA)
- Horace Greeley
- Union Victories in the West, 1862
- Shiloh (USA)
- New Orleans (USA)
- Finally, a Union Victory in the East
- Antietam (USA)
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The Confederacy Advances
- Fredericksburg (CSA)
- Chancellorsville (CSA)
- Gettysburg (?)
41. The Civil War, Part 3
- The Battle of Gettysburg (USA)
- Confederate and Union Strategies
- Pickett's Charge
- Gettysburg Address
- The Union Seeks Total Victory
- Vicksburg (USA)
- Sherman’s March to the Sea (USA)
- Appomattox C.H. (USA)
- The Confederacy Surrenders
- Terms of Surrender
- “Who Is an American?”
42. Reconstruction
- Military Reconstruction
- Sherman’s Field Order
- Freedman’s Bureau Act
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Lincoln
- Johnson
- Congressional Reconstruction
- Radicals vs. Moderates
- Radical-Moderate Compromises
- Impeachment of Johnson
- Constitutional Reconstruction
- 13th Amendment
- 14th Amendment
- 15th Amendment
- Representational Reconstruction
43. Redemption
- Review for Exam V
- Redemption
- Extra-Legal: KKK
- Economic: Sharecropping
- Political
- Legacies of Reconstruction and Redemption
- Jim Crow
- Civil Rights Movement
- Who is an American?
