Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the Civil War.

Critical Vocabulary: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: How did Southern states respond to Lincoln's election in 1860?
2. Citizenship Question: Who signs bills to become laws? 
   A. the President 
   B. the Vice President 
   C. the Secretary of State 
   D. the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
3. Guided Instruction: The Story of Us: Civil War
4. ​Reflection Question: How did changes in technology impact the course of the Civil War?

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Homework: The Civil War Reading