Essential Question: What changes in society contributed to the division of our nation? You will learn about life in the North and South and the key triggers that began the war. You will also find how the war was finally resolved.
- SS.8.1.11 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.
- SS.8.1.21 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.
- SS 8.1.22 Describe the abolitionist movement and identify figures and organizations involved in the debate over slavery, including leaders of the Underground Railroad.
- SS.8.1.23 Analyze the influence of early individual social reformers and movements such as the abolitionist, feminist and social reform movements.
- SS.8.1.24 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.
- SS.8.1.25 Identify the factories and individuals which influenced the outcome of the Civil War and explain the significance of each.
- SS.8.1.28 Recognize historical perspective and evaluate alternative courses of action by describing the historical context in which events unfolded.
- SS.8.1.29 Differentiate between facts and historical interpretations of events, recognizing that the historian's narrative reflects his or her judgment about the significance of particular facts.
- SS.8.1.30 Using primary and secondary sources, analyze an issue confronting the United States from colonial times through the Reconstruction period.
- SS.8.3.1 Read maps to interpret symbols and determine the land forms and human feature that represent physical and cultural characteristics of regions in the United States.
- SS.8.3.2 Read and interpret maps that portray the physical growth and development of the United States from colonization through Reconstruction (1877).
- SS.8.3.4 Identify the major mountain ranges and river systems of the United States and explain the importance of these physical features in the development of America.
- SS.8.3.5 Identify the agricultural regions of the United States and be able to give explanations for how the land was used and developed during the growth of the United States.
- SS.8.3.7 Using primary and secondary sources, identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed and describe the impacts that resulted.
- SS.8.4.2 Illustrate elements of the three types of Economic systems, using cases from United States History.
- SS.8.4.4 Analyze contributions of entrepreneurs and inventors in the development of the United States economy to 1877.
- SS.8.4.5 Relate how new technology and inventions brought about changes in labor productivity in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- SS.8.4.6 Trace the development of different kinds of money used in the United States.