6A Social Studies

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Topic:
 
The Civil War Begins 1861-1865
 
Essential Question:
 
In what ways did the Civil War transform the nation?
 
 
You will learn that:
  1. Southern states seceded from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860;
  2. after more Southern states joined the Confederacy, fighting began on Confederate territory;
  3. army life and new technology brought unexpected hardships to millions of soldiers;
  4. the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run shocked the North;
  5. both the Union and the Confederacy won important victories in the first years of the war;
  6. abolitionists had been fighting to end slavery for many decades before the Civil War began;
  7. the Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to slaves in the Confederacy and allowed African Americans to join the Union army;
  8. the Civil War took millions of men from their homes, disrupting life in both North and South;
  9. as the war dragged on, social, economic, and political change affected both the Union and the Confederacy;
  10. General Robert E. Lee caused the Union many difficulties in the east;
  11. after a series of Southern victories, the North began winning battles that led to the defeat of the Confederacy;
  12. during the Civil War, important social, economic, and political changes took place; and
  13. the Civil War transformed the nation.
 

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