Standards
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.
b. 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.
c Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen’s Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan.
Essential Question (s):
How did national political issues lead to the decision for Southern states to secede from the Union? (H6a)
How did key military, political and economic strategies influence the outcome of the Civil War? (H6b, E1, E2a)
How did political actions and social reactions change Southern culture after the Civil War? (H6c)
Warm up:
None?
A: None.
Today in Class:
Students were allowed to create a test aid for Wednesday's test.
Test Aid Instructions:
Student Made Test Aid (Yes you may use this on tomorrows Test)Using one side of a sheet of notebook paper and writing as small as you want create a sheet of notes to aid you on the test concentrate on the following topics:
Antebellum (Before the war) Georgia
Lincoln's election & secession
The southern social ladder
Economics (North -Industry vs. South - Agriculture)
States rights, sectionalism, secession (Tariff’s, nullification, the Union voluntary or perpetual)
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Civil War Strategies (Anaconda Plan, King Cotton Diplomacy)
Gettysburg, Antietam, The Atlanta Campaign)
Emancipation Proclamation
Full Power Point Ch. 7 and 8 :
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/powerpoint/GA8-CH7.pps
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/powerpoint/GA8-CH8.pps
Our Textbook:
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/ga_05/
Our text book in Audio Format:
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/audio.aspx
Textbook password:
ga11hist
Homework:
Work on test aid for Wednesday's test. Review all notes, definitions, and graphic organizers to date.
Long term Assignments:
Unit 5 Part II Antebellum Georgia and The Civil War Test Wednesday March 11.
Today in Georgia History:
March 10, 1866 Gov. Charles Jenkins signed legislation making it lawful for married women to maintain bank accounts independent of their husbands so long as the total balance was less than $2,000. This act doubled the amount a wife could maintain separately -- first set at a limit of under $1,000 by an act of 1861.
Link-O the Day:Election of 1860:
http://elections.harpweek.com/1860/Overview-1860-1.htm
Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850:
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=119&review=yes
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h42-cw.html
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-609
My Email Address:
robert.hutchins@cobbk12.org
