Guiding Question:

How does the struggle for identity and expanded freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction still shape the United States today?

• 4 - The project demonstrates a firm grasp of the question and answers it completely by addressing all 4 supporting objectives.
• 3 - The project answers the question adequately and does so by addressing 3 of the 4 supporting objectives.
• 2 - The project attempts an answer of the question and only addresses 2 of the supporting objectives.
• 1 - The project does not answer the question and addresses only 1 of the supporting objectives.
• 0 - Incomplete or no project.

Supporting Objectives:

• Explain why increasing the number of States increased the tensions in the debate over slavery.
• Describe the significance of the election of 1860 to the growing divide of the country.
• Understand the causes of the Civil War.
• Explain the reasons for the North’s overwhelming superiority in the War and the effects of the resulting destruction in the South.