Day

Objective

Activity

-Be able to evaluate which

events contributed to the
outbreak of the Civil War.

-Civil War Pre-Test

-Review Pre-Test
-Students take Guided Notes:
Lead up to the Civil War
-Exit Slip: Which event
contributed the most to the
outbreak of the Civil War?

-Be able to evaluate which

events contributed to the
outbreak of the Civil War.

-Students will complete the

Civil War and Antebellum
Period Overview

-Be able to evaluate which

events contributed to the
outbreak of the Civil War.
-Be able to analyze &
identify characteristics of
primary sources dealing
with the Dred Scott
decision.

-Students will complete

primary source activity with
the Dred Scott court decision

-Be able to explain how the

Lincoln-Douglas debates
showed the conflicts over
slavery in the U.S. before

-Students will participate in a

mock Lincoln-Douglas
Debate
-Students will identify the

Higher Order
Questions
-Which events
contribute the most
to the Civil War?
-How do sectionalism
and nationalism
interact on the
national political
stage? The social
stage?
-What do we know
about the Civil War?
-Are you looking
forward to learning
anything specific?
-What are the
political and social
implications of the
Dred Scot Decision?
-How does defining a
slave as property
under the 5th
Amendment help
protect the Southern
way of life? How do
you think that the
North would react to
such a statement?
-If you were in
Illinois, who would
you vote for?
-Which groups to

Vocabulary
-concessions
-popular sovereignty
-arsenal
-martyr
-secession

-indignant
-oppressive
-Liberator

the Civil War.

differing ideas of Lincoln and

Douglas

-Be able to evaluate which

events contributed to the
outbreak of the Civil War.

-Students will complete

Primary source analysis of
John Browns Raid on Harpers
Ferry
-Students review the events
that led up to the Civil War by
completing the Events that
led up to the Civil War chart

-Be able to identify events

that contributed to the Civil
War
-Evaluate and defend a
selection of the most
important cause of the
American Civil War
-Be able to explain the
early chronology of the Civil
War
-Be able to explain how
Lincolns views on slavery
changed during the war.

-Students will watch the first

episode of Ken Burns Civil
War

-Students will take Guided

Notes: The Civil War Begins
-Students will complete a
primary source analysis of the
Emancipation Proclamation

these candidates
appeal to?
-Do you think Lincoln
was prepared to lead
a divided nation?
-Why was the South
so enraged by the
raid on Harpers
Ferry?
-Do you think that
the North wanted
John Brown hanged
for treason? Why or
why not
-What was the most
important event that
led to the Civil War?

-What drove the

average
Union/Confederate
soldier?
-Do you think that
the South had a
more inspiring cause
than the North?
-Do you think that
the North had a hard
time recruiting men
to fight?
-Why was the

-martyr

-Ft. Sumter
-Antietam
-Emancipation
Proclamation
-conscription

-Be able to explain how the

North won the Civil War.
1863 = year the tide turned

-Students will complete an

outline for section 4.3 The
North Takes Charge

Emancipation
Proclamation so
significant?
-Why was the North
able to change the
tide of the War?

-Understand the
contributions of African
Americans during the Civil
War
-Understand the
significance of the Battle of
Gettysburg

--

--

-Ken Burns The Universe of

Battle (1863)

-Why does
Gettysburg remain
such a memorable
moment in American
history?

This episode opens with a

dramatic account of the
turning point of war: the Battle
of Gettysburg, the greatest
ever fought in the Western
Hemisphere. For three days,
150,000 men will fight to the
death in the Pennsylvania
countryside, culminating in
George Pickett's legendary
charge. This extended episode
then chronicles the fall of
Vicksburg, the New York draft
riots, the first use of black
troops, and the western
battles at Chickamauga,
Georgia, and Chattanooga,
Tennessee. The episode closes
with the dedication in

-Gettysburg
-Appomattox
Courthouse
-Vicksburg
-Sherman
--

-Be able to explain how the

North won the Civil War.
1863 = year the tide turned

-Be able to explain how the

North won the Civil War.
1863 = year the tide turned

November of a new Union

cemetery at Gettysburg,
where Abraham Lincoln
struggles to put into words
what is happening to his
people.
-Students will complete an
outline for section 4.3 The
North Takes Charge
-The class will review the
outline & discuss major events
-The class will review primary
sources from the Battle of
Vicksburg
-The class will review primary
sources from Shermans March

-Ken Burns War Is All Hell

(1865)
The episode begins with
William Tecumseh Sherman's
brilliant march to the sea,
which brings the war to the
heart of Georgia and the
Carolinas and spells the end of
the Confederacy. In March,
following Lincoln's second
inauguration, first Petersburg
and then Richmond finally fall
to Grant's army. Lee's tattered
Army of Northern Virginia flees

-Why was the North

able to change the
tide of the War?
-How did Shermans
March destroy the
South?

-Gettysburg
-Appomattox
Courthouse
-Vicksburg
-Sherman

-How Shermans
march destroy the
South?
-Imagine you were
living in the Southhow does the
destruction of
Northern armies
impact morale?

-Shermans March

westward toward a tiny

crossroads town called
Appomattox Court House.
There the dramatic and deeply
moving surrender of Lee to
Grant takes place. The
episode ends in Washington,
where John Wilkes Booth
begins to dream of vengeance
for the South