Tennessee

Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, and explain the successes and failures of Reconstruction.

• 5.5 Evaluate each candidate in the campaign of 1860 and analyze how that campaign reflected the sectional turmoil of the country.

  • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-J.8)
  • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

• 5.6 Explain with supporting details why Tennessee was divided on the issue of secession and the events that led it to eventually leave the Union to include: state convention vote of 1861, the Free and Independent State of Scott, Hurst Nation, East Tennessee mostly pro-Union and divided families.

• 5.7 Determine the meaning of the terms of this period with a visual representation, including:

  • Union and Confederate States

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

  • Yankees and Rebels

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

  • Blue and Gray

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

  • Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

• 5.8 Analyze the geographic, social, political, and economic strengths and weakness of the North and South.

  • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

• 5.9 Identify the Border States and the efforts of both sides to secure them to their cause.

  • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)
  • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)

• 5.10 Create a visual display to explain the Union's Anaconda Plan for defeating the Confederacy and how the geography of the South formed the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi theaters of war.

• 5.11 Explain the significance and outcome of the major battles and identify their location on a map or visual representation, including:

  • Fort Sumter

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)

  • Fort Henry and Donelson

  • Shiloh

  • Antietam

    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)

  • Gettysburg

    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)

  • Vicksburg

    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)

  • Chickamauga

  • Franklin

  • Nashville

  • Appomattox Court House

    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

• 5.12 Draw on informational text to explain the roles of the military and civil leaders during the Civil War, including:

  • Abraham Lincoln

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

  • Jefferson Davis

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

  • Ulysses S. Grant

    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

  • Robert E. Lee

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

  • Frederick Douglas

    • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-J.6)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)

  • Clara Barton

• 5.13 Read and write an informative piece summarizing the Gettysburg Address to determine its meaning and significance.

• 5.14 Use concrete words, phrases, and sensory details to describe the experience of the war on the battlefield and home front.

• 5.15 Explain the contributions of Tennesseans during the war, including:

  • Nathan Bedford Forrest

  • Sam Watkins

  • Andrew Johnson

    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

  • Matthew Fontaine Maury

  • Sam Davis

• 5.16 Evaluate and debate the rationales for the Emancipation Proclamation.

• 5.17 Explain why Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson as his running mate in the election of 1864.

  • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

• 5.18 Describe the physical, social, political and economic consequences of the Civil War on the southern United States.

  • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)
  • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)
  • Reconstruction (5-K.5)

• 5.19 Draw on information from multiple print or digital resources to describe the impact of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the nation.

  • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)
  • Reconstruction (5-K.5)

• 5.20 Analyze the goals and accomplishments of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Freedmen's Bureau, and Fisk University to help former slaves begin a new life.

  • Reconstruction (5-K.5)

• 5.21 Compare and contrast the different Reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress.

• 5.22 Integrate information from several texts about the intent and failure of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

• 5.23 Analyze why the Radical Republicans turned to military Reconstruction and the backlash resulting in the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, black codes, and vigilante justice.

  • Reconstruction (5-K.5)

• 5.24 Explain the impact of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870, including poll taxes, segregation, and funds for public education.

• 5.25 Explain the compromise that ended Reconstruction with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.

• 5.26 Describe the impact of yellow fever during the 1870s; why it was particularly deadly in West Tennessee and the election of African Americans to the General Assembly.