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Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and industrialists.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his “House Divided” speech (1858), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and inaugural addresses (1861 and 1865).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Study the views and lives of leaders (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee) and soldiers on both sides of the war, including those of black soldiers and regiments.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Describe critical developments and events in the war, including the major battles, geographical advantages and obstacles, technological advances, and General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Explain how the war affected combatants, civilians, the physical environment, and future warfare.

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Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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List the original aims of Reconstruction and describe its effects on the political and social structures of different regions.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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Identify the push-pull factors in the movement of former slaves to the cities in the North and to the West and their differing experiences in those regions (e.g., the experiences of Buffalo Soldiers).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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Understand the effects of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the restrictions placed on the rights and opportunities of freedmen, including racial segregation and “Jim Crow” laws.