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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
Countdown to Civil War
Chapter 21: A Dividing Nation
Pages 410 to 417
Terms to know in this chapter:
compromise
slave states or free states
abolitionist
secession
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Toms Cabin
Fred Scott Decision
Lincoln - Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid
Stephen Douglas: popular sovereignty
Abraham Lincoln
The Election of 1860
The South secedes
The War Begins on April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter
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