MAIN CONCEPT: You should understand the main reason the Civil War began and its main effects on the United States

• I can explain specific differences between the North and the South

• I can explain how the issues of states' rights and slavery contributed to the Civil War

• I can explain how each of the following people, events, and places contributed to the Civil War:

  • Fort Sumter

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Appomattox Courthouse

  • The Gettysburg Address

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Abraham Lincoln

  • Robert E Lee

  • George McClellan

  • John Brown

  • Harriett Tubman

  • Jefferson Davis

• I can explain the advantages the North had during the Civil War