Civil Wars and New Nations
(How did the Civil Wars resolve the crisis and create
new national identities in the U.S. and Japan?)
QCC objectives for the 5th and 9th grades |
Ideas |
| (5.6) Identifies causes, key events, and
effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction with emphasis on: - Economic and philosophical differences between the North and the South (e.g., states' rights, trade imbalance, and slavery) - Major leaders on both sides of the war (e.g., Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglas, and Harriet Tubman) - Critical developments in the war (e.g., Fort Sumter, the Emancipation Proclamation, Sherman's March to the Sea, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox) - Life on the battlefield and on the homefront - The effects of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and - The impact of Reconstruction policies on the South (e.g., government, education, and the economy). (1) |
Comparisons with Japan's Civil War would help students put the war in better perspective. In Japan's attempt to abolish unequal social classes can be correlated with the U.S.'s attempt to abolish slavery. |
Grant (U.S. Government General) Arisugawanomiya (Japanese,
Meiji Government General) on the left and
Government Army of Meiji Japan (1870) on the left, America (Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and staff 1862)on the right.
The Rebels! Lee and Takamori (two images on right)
Advanced Research
Links to Primary Sources
(link outline format from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook35.html , will open in a separate window here)
Industrial Revolution, Society, and Response/National Frontiers and Native People
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