Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Causes of the Civil War, including issues of states' rights and slavery.
- The importance of the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner's insurrection, the Compromise of 1850, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's rebellion, and the election of 1860.
- Key Northern and Southern personalities, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Joseph Wheeler.
- Social, economic, and political conditions that affected citizens during the Civil War.
- Alabama's role in the Civil War (Montgomery as the first capital of the Confederacy, Winston County's opposition to Alabama's secession).
Skills
Students are able to:
- Locate key places and events on a physical and political map.
- Identify and analyze the causes of political conflict Identify key people and explain their role throughout the Civil War.
- Describe and draw conclusions about the war affected the citizens of the United States.
- Interpret and define the role of Alabama in the Civil War.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were many factors that led to the Civil War.
- Key people and ordinary citizens contributed to and were impacted by the Civil War.
- Alabama responded to, participated in, and was impacted by the Civil War.
Vocabulary
- Civil War
- Missouri Compromise
- insurrection
- opposition
- rebellion
- personalities
- political conditions
- confederacy
- secession
