Unit Nine Standards
SS.8.A.1.2: Use appropriate geographic tools and terms to identify and describe significant places and regions in American history.
SS.8.A.5.1: Explain the causes, course, and consequence of the Civil War (sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, balance of power in the Senate).
SS.8.A.5.2: Analyze the role of slavery in the development of sectional conflict.
SS.8.A.5.3: Explain major domestic and international economic, military, political, and socio-cultural events of Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
SS.8.A.5.4: Identify the division (Confederate and Union States, Border states, western territories) of the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War.
SS.8.A.5.5: Compare Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses.
SS.8.A.5.6: Compare significant Civil War battles and events and their effects on civilian populations.
SS.8.A.5.7: Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as each impacts this era of American history.
SS.8.A.5.8: Explain and evaluate the policies, practices, and consequences of Reconstruction (presidential and congressional reconstruction, Johnson's impeachment, Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, opposition of Southern whites to Reconstruction, accomplishments and failures of Radical Reconstruction, presidential election of 1876, end of Reconstruction, rise of Jim Crow laws, rise of Ku Klux Klan).
Unit Essential Questions
- Why does conflict develop?
- How do new ideas change the way people live?
- what political compromises were made because of slavery.
- the causes/consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- how a new political party affected the challenges to slavery.
- why the Dred Scott case important.
- how Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas played a role in the challenges to slavery.
- the importance of the election of 1860.
- what the attack on Fort Sumter signified.
- the goals and strategies of the North and South.
- what the war was like for soldiers of the North and South.
- what the outcome was of the first major battle of the war.
- how the Union responded to important defeats in the East in 1862.
- the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation.
- how life changed during the Civil War.
- how Florida participated in the Civil War.
- the conditions of hospitals and prison camps during the Civil War.
- what political and economic changes occurred during the Civil War.
- what factors contributed to the early success of the Confederate forces.
- what role did African Americans play in military efforts.
- how the battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the war.
- what events occurred at the end of the war.
- the characteristics of a total war.
- why leaders disagreed about the South rejoining the Union.
- how Lincoln’s assassination changed the plans for the South rejoining the Union.
- how the North attempt to assist African Americans in the South.
- what elements were included in the Radical Republican idea of Reconstruction.
- how African Americans were discouraged from participating in civic life in the South.
- what some improvements and some limitations were for African Americans after the Civil War.
- how Democrats regained control of Southern governments.
- why freedom for African Americans become a distant dream after Reconstruction ended.
Words/Phrases to Know
Robert E. Lee, Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Clara Barton, Copperheads, habeas corpus, draft laws, Draft riots Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Chancellorsville, African American regiments, Battle of Gettysburg, Siege of Vicksburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of the Wilderness, Siege of Petersburg, Election of 1864, 13th Amendment, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Total war, Fall of Richmond, Appomattox Court House, Reconstruction, Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan, Amnesty, Radical Republicans, States’ rights, Union, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address, Ft. Sumter, Border states, Anaconda Plan, Rebels/ Yankees, 1st Battle of Bull Run, “Stonewall” Jackson, George McClellan, Battle of the Ironclads, Monitor & Merrimack, Ulysses S. Grant, Battle of the Shiloh, Capture of New Orleans, Freedmen’s Bureau, Lincoln assassination, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Johnson Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Freedmen’s Bureau/ Civil Rights Bills of 1866, Johnson veto/ Congressional override, 14th Amendment, Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, 15th Amendment, Carpetbagger, Scallywag, Ku Klux Klan, sharecropping, Panic of 1873, “Redeemers”, Election of 1876, Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, Jim Crow Laws, segregation, lynching