South Dakota State University HIST 151 - US History I (to 1877) Concepts addressed: The Civil War Era (1850-77) I. Gold! a. Sutter's Mill, California b. The Forty Niners c. San Francisco d. Levi Strauss e. Chinese immigration f. Mining Camps II. The Taylor Presidency a. The Compromise of 1850 b. Henry Clay c. John C. Calhoun d. Daniel Webster III. Millard Fillmore becomes President a. The Fugitive Slave Act b. The Election of 1852 i. Winfield Scott ii. Franklin Pierce c. Foreign Affairs d. Matthew Perry in Japan e. The Black Warrior Affair f. The Ostend Manifesto g. The Mexican-American War IV. The Trouble Begins a. The Gadsden Purchase, 1853 b. The Kansas-Nebraska Act i. Stephen A. Douglas ii. Bleeding Kansas 1. Indian Removal 2. White migration 3. Free Soilers a. Amos Lawrence b. New England Emigrant Aid Society c. Beecher's Bibles 4. Charles Sumner attacked 5. Increasing Immigration a. Tammany Hall b. Know-Nothings c. Republicans c. The Election of 1856 i. John C. Fremont
ii. James Buchanan d. The Slide Into War i. Southern Literature Condemns Industrialization 1. William Grayson 2. George Fitzhugh ii. The Dred Scott Decision 1. Roger B. Taney 2. Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional 3. LeCompton Constitution 4. d. Kansas enters the Union, 1861 iii. The Panic of 1857 iv. Abraham Lincoln 1. Early Career 2. Republican Party leader 3. Illinois Senate Campaign, 1858 4. Lincoln-Douglas Debates v. Harper's Ferry, 1859 1. John Brown 2. Brown's Execution, 1859 e. The Election of 1860 i. William H. Seward ii. Abraham Lincoln iii. Stephen A. Douglas iv. John C. Breckenridge f. Secession i. Southern States Secede ii. Confederate States of America formed iii. Jefferson Davis V. The Civil War a. The Crittenden Compromise b. Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina i. General P G. T. Beauregard ii. Major Robert Anderson c. Battle over the Border States i. Maryland intimidated ii. Kentucky remains in US iii. Jayhawkers vs. Bushwhackers in Missouri iv. West Virginia created d. The Native Americans i. Attempt Neutrality ii. Fight for Confederacy e. The Economic Balance i. The North 1. Majority of Population 2. Heavy Industry 3. Railroad Predominance 4. Navy ii. The South
1. Psychological advantage 2. Experienced Military leaders 3. Support from Great Britain f. On the Battlefield i. The First Battle of Bull Run ii. The Peninsular Campaign iii. Shiloh iv. Antietam v. Gettysburg vi. Vicksburg vii. Chattanooga viii. The Wilderness Campaign ix. Sherman's March to the Sea x. Petersburg xi. Appomattox Courthouse g. On the Seas i. Control of the Mississippi ii. New Orleans iii. Hampton Roads iv. Naval vessels 1. The Monitor 2. The Merrimac 3. The Hunley 4. The Virginia 5. The Cumberland 6. The Alabama h. Those in Command i. Northern Commanders 1. Winfield Scott 2. Irwin McDowell 3. George McClellan 4. Ulysses S. Grant 5. Admiral David Farragut 6. John Pope 7. Ambrose Burnside 8. Joseph Hooker 9. George C. Meade 10. William Tecumseh Sherman ii. Southern Commanders 1. Joseph Johnston 2. Stonewall Jackson 3. Robert E. Lee 4. Albert Sidney Johnston 5. George E. Pickett 6. John C. Pemberton 7. Braxton Bragg 8. John Bell Hood i. The Cost of War
VI. VII. i. The Trent Affair ii. Conscription iii. Black Soldiers iv. Income taxes v. Scarcity of Products vi. Habeas Corpus in the North vii. Ex Parte Milligan viii. Hardship for the Soldiers 1. Prison camps 2. The Diseases of War j. Economic Expansion Due to War i. The Transcontinental Railroad ii. The Homestead Act iii. Morrill Land Grant Act iv. National Bank Act v. Women Take Jobs The Aftermath of War a. The Emancipation Proclamation b. The Election of 1864 i. Abraham Lincoln ii. John C. Fremont iii. George McClellan c. The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction i. Wade-Davis Bill ii. Wade-Davis Manifesto iii. Freedman's Bureau d. The Lincoln Assassination i. Ford's Theater ii. John Wilkes Booth iii. The Conspiracy Reconstruction a. Andrew Johnson as President i. New Constitutions for the Southern States ii. Ratification of 13 th Amendment iii. Amnesty or Pardon b. Southern Reaction i. Rebel leaders elected to Congress ii. Black Codes c. Congressional Reconstruction i. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 ii. The Fourteenth Amendment iii. The First, Second and Third Reconstruction Acts iv. The Fifteenth Amendment 1. Women's Suffrage a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton b. Susan B. Anthony 2. National American Woman Suffrage Association v. The Impeachment of a President
VIII. IX. 1. The Tenure of Office Act 2. Edwin M. Stanton 3. One vote short! The Grant Years a. Southern Reconstruction i. Southern Republicans ii. Carpetbaggers iii. Scalawags iv. Blacks in Office v. Changes in the South 1. Public Schools 2. Rebuilding the Railroads 3. Rising Tax Burdens 4. Black Churches 5. Sharecropping b. Grant's Croneyism i. Spoilsmen ii. Credit Mobilier iii. The Whiskey Ring iv. The Salary Grab The Liberal Revolt a. Horace Greeley nominated by Liberal Republicans b. Grant nominated by Republicans c. Grant re-elected X. Economics a. The Panic of 1873 b. Specie Resumption Act XI. The Failure of Reconstruction a. The Ku Klux Klan b. The Colfax Massacre c. Waving the Bloody Shirt d. The Slaughterhouse Cases e. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 f. The Compromise of 1877 g. White Supremacy and Segregation XII. The Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876 XIII. Economic Changes a. The Rise of Cities b. The Southern Textile Industry c. Migration to the North