Mr. Saindon
United States History
Monday, May 12
to Friday, May 16
Last Week
Wrapping up "Overview of the Civil War" packet. Will finish on Monday
This Week: Three topics:
1. Gettysburg: Fill out close activity on the Gettysburg Address (100 points)
2. Skit on the Emancipation Proclamation ((100 points based on team work and focus)
3. "Killing Lincoln"packet questions (100 points)
Battle of Gettysburg
Emancipation Proclamation
Countdown to the Civil War
Learning Objective
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Students will identify the conflicts between the North and South and explain how these led to the Civil War.
1.Students will be able to create a timeline of events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Students will be able to discuss the effects of the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. After reading the Gettysburg Address, students will be able to summarize the content.
2. Students will be able to discuss the political and military conditions that led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. After reading the document, students will be able to summarize, in writing, the meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation.
3. Lincoln’s Assassination – Understand the events leading up to and following April 14, 1865.
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The Investigation and Trial – Dive into the search for John Wilkes Booth and the trial of the conspirators.
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Lincoln’s Legacy – Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s lasting impact on America today.
Fall of Richmond
Song: The Night They
Drove Old Dixie Down
Lincoln Surveys the Carnage at Petersburg, Virginia

United States of America
USA




Confederate States of America
CSA
President Abraham Lincoln
President Jefferson Davis
The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Segregation
Integration
racism
non-violence
civil disobedience
"All men are Created Equal"
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
slavery
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Jim Crow Laws
Integration
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) outlaws segregation in schools
racism
prejudice
sexism
tolerance
bullying
hatred
attitude
discrimination
self-awareness
boycott
assassination
empowered
equality
class stratification (rich & poor)
Gender
Understands the struggle for racial equality and for the extension of civil liberties
Understands individual and institutional influences on the civil rights movement
(e.g., the origins of the postwar civil rights movement; the role of the NAACP in the legal assault on segregation;
the leadership and ideologies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X;
the effects of the constitutional steps taken in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government; the shift from de jure to de facto segregation;
important milestones in the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1965;
Eisenhower’s reasons for dispatching federal troops to Little Rock in 1957).
Understand the civil rights movement
civil disobedience
radical protest; issues that led to the development of the Asian Civil Rights Movement and the Native American Civil Rights Movement; the issues and goals of the farm labor movement and La Raza Unida).
Understands significant influences on the civil rights movement (e.g., the social and constitutional issues involved in the
Plessy v. Ferguson(1896)
and
Brown v. Board of Education(1954) court cases; the connection between legislative acts, Supreme Court decisions, and the civil rights movement; the role of women in the civil rights movement and in shaping the struggle for civil rights).
Understands economic, social, and cultural developments in the contemporary United States
Benchmark 6-8:
Understands how different groups attempted to achieve their goals (e.g., the grievances of racial and ethnic minorities and their reference to the nation’s charter documents to rectify past injustices
Understands the role of diversity in American life and the importance of shared values, political beliefs, and civic beliefs in an increasingly diverse American society.