3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:ANTEBELLUM/CIVIL WAR/RECONSTRUCTION
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:30
  • Grade(s):8
Key Learning: Economic, political and social issues divided the North and the South and led the Union into a Civil War.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
Did the Civil War successfully resolve the issues that divided the nation?
   
Concept: Antebellum Period
Concept: Civil War
Concept: Reconstruction
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the acquisition of new land in the United States increase tensions between slave states and free states? (A)
How did economic and political decisions affect the state of the Union? (A)
What events directly led the Southern States to secede from the union? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the Union and the Confederacy compare in terms of resources and advantages at the start of the war? (A)
What were the key events of the Civil War? (A)
Who were the primary personalities associated with the Civil War period? (A)
How did the Civil War affect the economy and people of Georgia? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What was the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia: economically, politically and socially? (A)
What amendments were passed as part of the plans for readmission of the southern states into the Union? (A)
Additional Information:

cause/effect organizers, visuals, primary source documents, timelines, maps, artifacts, etc.

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • slavery -
  • freedmen -
  • Emancipation Proclamation -
  • states rights -
  • sharecropping and tenant farming -
  • blockade runner -
  • Ku Klux Klan -
  • border state -
  • compromise -
  • Reconstruction -
  • nullification -
  • total war -
  • secession -
  • carpetbagger -
  • 13th -
  • Georgia Platform -
  • tariff -
  • 14th and 15th amendments -
  • abolitionist -
  • scalawag -
  • white supremacy -
  • slave codes -
  • free soiler -
  • disenfranchisement -
  • yeoman farmer -
  • home rule -
  • planter -
  • Freedmen's Bureau -
  • Freedmen's Bureau -