Unit One: Causes of Civil War Duration: 1st & 2

Henri Naylor

• 
  United States Civil War: causes, course, and effects 1840-77
  
  • 
    Cotton economy and slavery: conditions of enslavement, adaptation and resistance
    
  • 
    Origins of the Civil war: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between the North and South
    
  • 
    Abolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impact
    
  • 
    Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debates
    
  • 
    Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses, economic resources, leaders
    
  • 
    Reconstruction: economic, social, and political successes and failures, economic expansion
    
  • 
    African Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws
    

• 
  Origins of Slavery
  
• 
  Background to Civil War
  
• 
  Westward Expansion
  
• 
  Growing Section Strife
  
• 
  Events Leading to Civil War
  

• 
  United States Civil War: causes, course, and effects 1840-77
  
  • 
    Cotton economy and slavery: conditions of enslavement, adaptation and resistance
    
  • 
    Origins of the Civil war: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between the North and South
    
  • 
    Abolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impact
    
  • 
    Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debates
    
  • 
    Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses, economic resources, leaders
    
  • 
    Reconstruction: economic, social, and political successes and failures, economic expansion
    
  • 
    African Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws
    

• 
  Course of Civil War
  
• 
  Reconstruction
  

• 
  Emergence of the Americas is Global Affairs 1880-1929
  
  • 
    United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, and social and ideological reasons
    
  • 
    Social Darwinism
    
  • 
    Spanish-American War: causes and effects (1898)
    
  • 
    United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, and social and ideological reasons
    
  • 
    United States’ foreign policies: Big Stick, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, applications and impact on the region
    

• 
  Emergence of US Power in Global Affairs(1880-1913)
  
• 
  US Foreign Policy: 1900-1913
  
• 
  Wilson & Moral Diplomacy
  

• 
  The Development of Modern Nations 1865-1929
  
  • 
    Development and impact of ideological currents including Progressivism and Social Darwinism
    
  • 
    Social, economic and legal conditions of African Americans between 1865 and 1929; Harlem Renaissance; the search for civil rights and the ideas, aims and tactics of Booker T. Washington, WEB DuBois, and Marcus Garvey
    
• 
  Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas
  
  • 
    African Americans and the Civil Rights Movement: origins, tactics and organizations; the US Supreme Court and legal challenges to segregation in education; ending of the segregation in the South (1955-65)
    
  • 
    Role of Dr. Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights Movement; the rise of radical African American activism (1965-68): Black Panthers; Black Muslims; Black Power and Malcolm X
    
  • 
    Role of the governments in civil rights movements in the Americas
    

• 
  US Civil Rights Movement