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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= E1: Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns Grades 9-Diploma: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Social Studies E. History
 * Students will understand major eras, major enduring themes, and historic influences in the United States and world history, including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals, and institutions in the world.* ||

//What understandings are desired?//
•the North (Union) had the economic/military advantage among their many other advantages over the South (Confederacy). •the period following the Civil War (Reconstruction) was a tumultuous time for the United States. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * there were several causes of the American Civil War, in the years leading up to when the war actually began, and these causes were related to slavery.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How did the economic/military advantages among others help the North win the Civil War? •Why was the period of Reconstruction a tumultuous time for the United States (How did the decisions made by the North impact Reconstruction)? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How did the events in the years leading up to the Civil War cause the war?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Sequence and time lines: 3/5ths clause, the South becomes a cotton leader (dependent on slaves), the North industrializes,Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, Lincoln-Douglas debates, the presidential election of 1860 (Lincoln elected), South Carolina secedes, the course of the war and Reconstruction. •Key factual information: All of the states that left the Union,the outcome of the Civil War, advantages that each side possessed, the Constitutional amendments enacted following the war, the economy of the United States following the Civil War, the enactment of the Jim Crow laws. || •describe the main causes of the Civil War. •make sense of the advantages that the North possessed that helped them win the Civil War. •decide how decisions in the years leading up to the Civil War caused the war to start. •analyze the advantages that both the North and the South possessed throughout the war. •consider the hardships that former slaves faced following the Civil War. •be aware that decisions made following the war impacted the United States, and we may still be seeing the effects of the Civil War. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •Important Events and People: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Stephan Douglas, Andrew Johnson, Various important leaders in Congress, Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S Grant, Tecumseh Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, caning of Charles Sumner, the Emancipation Proclamation, Battle of Gettysburg, Grant becomes leader of the army, the North wins the war, Reconstruction.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**