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: Lincoln and the 13th Amendment Questions
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: Lincoln Viewing Questions
   
4. Reflection Question: What questions must the country address following the end of the Civil War? 

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Homework: The Civil War Reading