Thursday, January 31, 2008

Civil War Project

State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.

http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/secess.htm

Friday, January 25, 2008

Civil War

EQ: What are the causes of the American Civil War?

SS8H6 The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia.
a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, election of 1860, the debate over secession in Georgia, and the role of Alexander Stephens. Klux Klan.

Elections

Causes of the War

Tuesday, January 15, 2008