Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective:
Explain the various factors that contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War.

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: What advantages did the North and South each have at the start of the Civil War?
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. Collaborative Learning: Cornerstone Speech Analysis
4. Guided Instruction: The Civil War
5. ​Reflection Question: What did Alexander Stephens claim was the "cornerstone" upon which the Confederate States of America was built?

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Homework: The Civil War Reading