Focus: Study of the people and events that caused the sectionalization of the United States and led to war
Unit Length: Approx. 2.5 Weeks
Grade Level: Juniors/Seniors
Student Outcomes:
1. identify the causes of sectionalism and the Civil War.
2. analyze and interpret the role of politics in the delaying and eventual coming of the war.
3. understand the role of slavery and the expansion of slavery in the United States prior to the war.
Lectures:
Factors of War's Causes
Southern Life
Northern Distinctions
Key Differences
Two Party System
1850's & Formation of the Republican Party
Election of 1856
Dred Scott Case & Radical's Movements to 1860
Video: Ken Burns: The Civil War
"Intro" & "The Cause"
"All Night Forever"
"Are We Free"
"House Divided"
"The Meteor"
Assessment:
Participation
Test
Unit Length: Approx. 2.5 Weeks
Grade Level: Juniors/Seniors
Student Outcomes:
1. identify the causes of sectionalism and the Civil War.
2. analyze and interpret the role of politics in the delaying and eventual coming of the war.
3. understand the role of slavery and the expansion of slavery in the United States prior to the war.
Lectures:
Factors of War's Causes
Southern Life
Northern Distinctions
Key Differences
Two Party System
1850's & Formation of the Republican Party
Election of 1856
Dred Scott Case & Radical's Movements to 1860
Video: Ken Burns: The Civil War
"Intro" & "The Cause"
"All Night Forever"
"Are We Free"
"House Divided"
"The Meteor"
Assessment:
Participation
Test