Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The reasons Alabama seceded from the Union including sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, and economic disagreements. Alabama played an important role in forming the Confederacy.
- Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy.
- The Articles of Confederation served as a basis for the Constitution of the Confederacy.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Explain reasons for Alabama's secession from the Union, including sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, and economic disagreements.
- Analyze Alabama's role in the organization of the Confederacy, including hosting the secession convention and the inauguration ceremony for leaders.
- Identify Montgomery as the first capital of the Confederacy.
- Interpret the Articles of the Confederation and the Gettysburg Address as primary documents.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Economic and political disagreements led to Alabama's secession from the Union and Alabama played a major role in the creation of the Confederacy.
Vocabulary
- secession
- Union
- sectionalism
- slavery
- states' rights
- Confederacy
- inauguration
- ceremony
