Civil War and Reconstruction Timeline

* You will create an interactive timeline in pairs *

1. Based on what you’ve learned about the War of the Rebellion and Reconstruction, you will create a timeline demonstrating your knowledge of key events during the “Civil War” and the subsequent Reconstruction years.

2. For each of the events, you must determine the month and year in which it occurred (or began); your timeline must be in the correct chronological order.

3. Causes of the War & Reconstruction must be identified with one color, while consequences must be identified with a different color; you must include a key to indicate the colors you chose to use.

4. For each event you must determine which of three categories it belongs in.
   • If it is a social cause or consequence label the event with (S).
   • If it is a political cause or consequence label the event with (P).
   • If it is an economic cause or consequence label the event with (E).

5. For each event, you must give a brief explanation (2-3 sentences) of what happened and how it was a cause or consequence of either the War of the Rebellion or Reconstruction; i.e. why was it important?

6. List of Events:

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Election of 1860
• Emancipation Proclamation 
• Nullification Crisis
• Attack on Fort Sumter
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Anaconda Plan 
• Battle of Vicksburg
• Surrender at Appomattox
• Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Ten-Percent Plan vs. Johnson’s Plan
• Passing of the 13^th Amendment
• Passing of the 14^th Amendment –> (Legal Changes After the War)
• Passing of the 15^th Amendment
• Military Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws
• Compromise of 1877
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Ostend Manifesto
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Homestead Act.

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