Unit 9 Civil War

The Endangered Union 1860-1865


The Civil War

  • Students can explain significant events of the Civil War.

    • firing on Fort Sumter

    • the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg

    • Emancipation Proclamation

    • Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House

    • assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Student understands the:

    • Abraham Lincoln's ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first and second inaugural addresses and the Gettysburg Address

    • Jefferson Davis's ideas as contained in his inaugural address

    • leadership qualities of elected and appointed leaders: Abraham Lincoln

    • contributions of significant political, social, and military leaders: Frederick Douglass

    • of American music that reflect society in different eras: the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

    • significant individuals: Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln

  • heroes: congressional Medal of Honor recipients William Carney and Philip Bazaar