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
Black History Month
Academic Content Specific Vocabulary
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
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Assassination
empowered
equality
class stratification (rich & poor)
Gender