Unit 5: Nation Divided

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

Students understand that...

• • How did the Constitution provoke and resolve divisions within the Union?

• Economic, political and social differences led to sectionalism and division of the Union.

• The effects of the Civil War shaped the nation and continue today.

Knowledge

Students know ...

Skills

Students will be able to...

• • vocabulary connected to the long term and short term cause of the war

  • changes in technology that contributed to sectionalism

  • how the government attempted to prevent further division in the nation

• the importance and influence of key documents

Key Vocabulary

• sectionalism

• secede

• propaganda

• civil war

• emancipate

• draft

• total war

Key Terms/Events

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Harper's Ferry Raid

• Republican

• Election of 1860

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Fort Sumter

• Union and Confederacy

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Sherman's March

• Appomattox Courthouse

• • compare and contrast two documents

  • complete a graphic organizer

  • comprehend a secondary source article

  • infer thoughts and feelings of key figures during this time period

  • draw conclusions from images

  • pair/share information and conclusions

  • locate important information in digital and print sources

  • integrate information from several sources

  • present their writing to their peers

Performance Task

US DBQ Assessments 9 - 10: Slavery and its Defenders, What Caused Secession? (pgs. 37 - 47)

A Perspective on Slavery (Beyond the Bubble)

Slave Quarters (Beyond the Bubble)

Attack on Fort Sumter (Beyond the Bubble)

Gardner's Civil War Photography (Beyond the Bubble)

These lessons are aligned with the unit goals. They are intended for center work, whole group and/or small group instruction. Lessons that meet the same objectives can be used in place of the ones below.

Technology and Resources

Bubble, Bubble ("I think"; pgs. 34 - 37) Students will look at timelines of events from the 1600's to the 1850;s and evaluate how these events led to tensions between North and South prior to the Civil War.

Legally Blind ("I think": pgs. 38 - 44) Students will analyze the Dred Scott case and how the judicial system led to greater sectional tensions in the 1850's prior to the Civil War.

Did Abraham Lincoln Really Want to Free the Slaves? (Inquiry-based US History Module)

Uncle Tom's Cabin Inquiry

Is Freedom Free? inquiry

Did Charles Sumner Deserve It? Inquiry