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USA History / Mr.Saindon
Monday, March 27 to Friday, March 31
Countdown to The Civil War
Students will understand how a variety of events compounded to create the boiling tensions leading into the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman and the Abolitionist movement
What was the Underground Railroad and how did it operate?
The Civil War
1. Compare/contrast/analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Union and Confederacy.
2. Compare/contrast the goals and strategies of the Union and Confederacy.
3. Evaluate major events of the Civil War.
4. Be able to explain what happened at Gettysburg
National Holiday: Thanksgiving
The True Story of Thanksgiving
The Mouse on the Mayflower
The Plymouth Plantation: The First Thanksgiving
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Promise
Click on George Washington and go to the National Archives to see Washington's proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789, as an official holiday of "sincere and humble thanks."
Then...read about Lincoln's declaration...and then find out what President Roosevelt did....
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