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Lesson 1.01: Geography

Lesson 1.02: Set the Stage

Lesson 1.03: The Civil War
The Big Ideas
What were the main differences between the North and South prior to the Civil War?

What were the economic causes of the Civil War?

What were the political causes of the Civil War?

What were the social causes that contributed to the Civil War?

What were the economic consequences of the Civil War?

What were the political consequences of the Civil War?

What were the economic consequences of the Civil War?

People
Dred Scott – (Who was he and what were the results of his case?)

Abraham Lincoln – (How was his election related to the Civil War?)

African American soldiers – (How was their wartime experience different from that of white soldiers?)

General Winfield Scott – (What was his plan for the Union and how was it supposed to work?)
Events (Describe the event, its causes and effects)
Missouri Compromise -

Compromise of 1850 -

Kansas-Nebraska Act -

Passage of Emancipation Proclamation -

Gettysburg Address -

Vocabulary (answer the question, fill in examples from the lesson, where possible, or put the definition in your own words)
Anaconda Plan – the Union’s three-part Civil War strategy, designed to capture the Confederate capital in Richmond, block southern ports, and control the Mississippi River
Why did the Union this this strategy would help them win the war?
“Bleeding Kansas” – name given to Kansas territory as pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups fought to decide the territory’s future
How was this related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Buffalo soldiers – name given to African American soldiers by Native Americans
Compromise of 1850 – a series of congressional measures that allowed California to become a state, settled border disputes between Texas and New Mexico, and created the Fugitive Slave Act
Dred Scott case – case in which a slave

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