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Historical
Understandings
SS5H1
The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the
Civil War.
a.
Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and
explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.
b.
Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions
between the North and South.
c.
Identify major battles and campaigns:
Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to
the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.
d.
Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee,
Ulysses
S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
e.
Describe the effects of war on the North and South.
SS5H2
The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.
a.
Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
b.
Explain the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
c.
Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African-
Americans were prevented from exercising their newly won rights; include a
discussion of Jim Crow laws and customs.


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Gov't/Civil
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Civil War Lesson
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Trial of the Secret Six
American History Clip Art
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General Info
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/
http://www.civilwar.com/
Movie: Civil War
The Civil War
for 5th graders
Financing the
Civil War
Uniforms
of the Civil War
The
Gettysburg Address
Civil
War Ends - A Child's Diary (primary document)
Eyewitness to History
Goober Peas -
Peanuts
The
Civil War for Kids
Union
Troops Furnished and Deaths
Official
Records - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Gettysburg Report
North American Slave Narratives
Results of 1860
Census
Ordinances
of Secession of the 13 Confederate States of America
Constitution
of the Confederate States of America
Constitution
of the United States
Georgia
Declaration of Secession
Texas
Declaration of Secession
Mississippi
Declaration of Secession
Constitution
of the United States
The Bill or Rights
and Amendments
Fugitive Slave
Act
Declaration
of Independence
Emancipation
Proclamation
Dyer's
(Union) Eastern Department and Armies
Dyer's
(Union) Western Department and Armies
Dred Scott Decision
9. Collection from the Southern
Historical Society Papers
Born in
Slavery: Former Slaves Interviewed in the 1930's
Events/Places:
Alphabetical
List of Battles:
http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/alpha.html
http://www.civilwar.com/content/category/22/54/48/
Interactive
Map-Underground Rail Road
Online Activities
Map
of the Civil War
Gettysburg
for Kids
Photos:
Battle
of Antietam (large file
2,482k)
Battle
of Gettysburg (large file
2,130k)
Battle of Fredericksburg (large file 1,776k)
Battle of Shiloh (large file 638k)
Andersonville
Prison (large file
1,582k)
People:
http://www.civilwar.com/content/category/25/61/53/
http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/lincoln.html
Biography
Ulysses S. Grant
Biography
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Harriet
Tubman and The Underground Railroad
Abraham
Lincoln
Photos:
Portrait of
General Robert E. Lee
Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln
Portrait of General Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson
Three Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg
Photo of General Ulysses S. Grant
Games
Underground Railroad Game
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/


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