8th- Fourth 9 weeks 

This quarter we will cover three units: Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. 

I can compare the North and the South so we can find similarities and differences which led to the Civil War. 

I can explain the events that led to the Civil War so we can understand how the United States became so divided. 

I can explain why slaves would utilize the Underground Railroad to attempt to gain freedom. 

I can identify the states that were Union, Border, and Confederacy during the Civil War on a map. 

I can compare the North and the South to determine which side was more advantageous. 

I can identify why the election of 1860 led to the Civil War.

I can explain what daily life was like for soldiers, women, men, African Americans, and more. 

I can identify the most important Civil War battles and their importance.

I can describe how the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg address were influential at the time. 

I can compare and contrast the various idea for Reconstruction.

I can describe the Reconstruction Amendments and the impact they had on the United States. 

I can describe how Freedman were still treated negatively after the Civil War, including sharecropping, Black Codes, and Jim Crow laws. 

8.H.11- Compare and contrast the ways of life in the northern and southern states, including the growth of towns and cities and the growth of industry in the North and the growing dependence on slavery and the production of cotton in the South causing early sectionalism in America. 

8.H.19- Give examples of how immigration affected American culture in the decades before and the Civil War, including growth of industrial sites in the North; religious differences; tensions between middle-class and working-class people, particularly in the Northeast; and intensification of cultural differences between the North and the South.

8.H.20- Give examples of the changing role of women, minorities, and immigrants in the northern, southern and western parts of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, and examine possible causes for these changes.

8.H.21- Describe the abolitionist movement and identify figures and organizations involved in the debate over slavery, including leaders of the Underground Railroad, and how the movement affected the division between the North and South.

8.H.22- Analyze the influence of early individual social reformers and movements such as the abolitionist, feminist and social reform movements. 

8.H.23- Analyze the causes and effects of events leading to the Civil War, and evaluate the impact issues such as states’ rights and slavery had in developing America’s sectional conflict. 

8.H.24 Identify the factors and individuals which influenced the outcome of the Civil War and explain the significance of each. 

8.H.25 Compare and contrast the three plans for Reconstruction and evaluate the merits of each. 

8.H.26 Describe causes and lasting effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction as well as the political controversies surrounding this time such as Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, the Black Codes, and the Compromise of 1877.

8.H.27- Using primary and secondary sources, analyze an issue confronting the United States from colonial times through the Reconstruction period.

8.G.7- Identify and interpret maps, graphs and charts showing the distribution of natural resources such as forests, water sources and wildlife in the United States at the beginning of the nineteenth century and give examples of how people exploited these resources as the country became more industrialized and people moved westward.

Please see Canvas for resources.