During this unit, you will learn about the Civil War. Topics include the lead- up to the war, the war itself, and the efforts made on both sides to rebuild after the war.
You will be choosing a topic related to the Civil War, research it, and prepare a thesis statement and show evidence to suppots your position. In this presentation, you will be defending your claim regarding your research topic.
Your classmates will hear and see information about your topic as you present the research you discovered on your way to writing your thesis statement which states your claim.
The presentations will be shared with students in a Gallery Walk so that we all can learn a little bit about your topic and how it is related to the Civil War and our country today.
Civil War Project Position Paper Handbook
(remember you need to save a copy to your Google Drive to write in the doc)
Pre-War
Unit Understanding: The Civil War began due to different perspectives on slavery and sectionalism.
Unit Question: What were the issues that caused the American Civil War?
“Bleeding Kansas”
Cause of the war - different perspectives on slavery and sectionalism
Compromises to preserve the Union
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
Fugitive Slave Act and the case of Joshua Glover
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Tubman
John Brown, abolitionist
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Nat Turner
Presidential election of 1860
Slave uprisings
Stephen A. Douglas, senator and presidential candidate
Sojourner Truth, civil rights activist
Underground railroad
The War
Unit Understanding: People, actions, conditions, and events affected the outcome of the war, which was the preservation of the Union.
Unit Questions: How did strategies differ between the North and the South?
Why did the North win?
Abraham Lincoln, president and commander-in-chief
African-American soldiers and the 54th Massachusetts
Andersonville Prison
Clara Barton, nurse
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Shiloh
Belle Boyd, spy
Conscription
Elizabeth Van Lew, abolitionist, spy
Emancipation Proclamation
Growth of power of the federal government
Fort Sumter
George McClellan, general
Gettysburg Address
Jefferson Davis
Key conflicts in the war
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Loreta Janeta Velazquez, soldier
Matthew Brady, photographer
Medical practices
Military technology - rifles, minie balls, ironclads
Monitor vs. Merrimack
Navy’s role
Pauline Cushman, spy
Prison camps
Railroads in the war
Robert E. Lee, general
Rose Greenhow, spy
Sherman’s March
Stonewall Jackson, general
Strategies, strengths, and weaknesses of the Confederacy and the Union
Submarine - H.L. Hunley
Susie King Taylor, nurse, teacher
Telegraph
Transportation during the war
Ulysses S. Grant, general
William Tecumseh Sherman, general
Women in the war
Post-War
Unit Understanding: The Civil War’s impact was great upon the future of the country, and it has taken its toll on American citizenship.
Unit Questions: How did Reconstruction change politics, constitutional law, and social structure in
the post-Civil War United States?
How did the outcome of the war shape our country?
Carpetbaggers
Economic changes in the North and South
Freedmen’s Bureau
Lincoln’s assassination
Reconstruction
Sharecropping
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth Amendments
Sources:
Garcia, Jesus. Creating America: A History of the United States. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.
School Library Education Consortium, University of Wisconsin System. Accessed 04-21-16. http://uwsslec.libguides.com/c.php?g=187041&p=1235277
