1. 6-5: The Civil War,

2. Learning Objectives
NAT 2.0 Explain how interpretations of the Constitution and debates over rights, liberties, and definitions of citizenship have affected American values, politics, and society.
POL 3.0 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies.

3. Key Concept
The Union victory in the Civil and the contested reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal government and citizenship rights.

4. Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy

5. Confederates: cotton diplomacy

6. United states: Forestall intervention

7. Trent affair

8. Effects of War on civilian life

9. Civil Liberties—suspension of habeas corpus

10. Conscription

11. Draft riots and race riots

12. 1864 presidential race

13. The Union triumphs

14. East: Gettysburg

15. West: Vicksburg and Atlanta

16. Virginia campaign and surrender

17. The End of slavery

18. Confiscation acts

19. Visualizing emancipation: thanks university of Richmond and ed ayers!

20. Emancipation proclamation

21. Freedmen in the war