Unit 5: A nation divided
"How did the conflict of the Civil War define the nation?"
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Students explore the Civil War beginning with its immediate causes from the preceding decade to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. Students learn that the Civil War was a major turning point in US history, in which the union was preserved and the institution of slavery took a fatal blow. In many ways, this was the culmination of decades of growing pains caused by years of expansion and conflict between the states. The result was the answer to the biggest question of American identity: free or slave? Would the United States live up to its founding promise that “all men are created equal”?
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Topic 1: SectionalismConnection: Students analyze ways in which early compromises over slavery were ineffective and what impact they had on different regions of the United States.
Standards: (7.1.1-5; 7.3.3-5; 7.4.1-2; 7.5.3; 7.8.8; 7.10.1-2; 7.11.1-3)
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Topic 2: LIncoln and SecessionConnection: Students explore the role of the election of Abraham Lincoln and other key events, ideas, and people, which led to the Civil War and analyze the immediate and long-term causes of the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Standards: (7.1.1-5; 7.3.3-5; 7.4.1-2; 7.5.3; 7.10.1-2; 7.11.1-3)
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topic 3: The Civil War
Connection: Students will analyze important turning points and major developments of The CivilWar in order to determine how the conflict defined the nation and impacted American identity.
Standards: (7.1.1-5; 7.3.3-5; 7.4.1-2; 7.5.3; 7.10.1-2; 7.11.1-3)
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