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: What advantages did the North and South each have at the start of the Civil War?
2. Citizenship Question: If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President? 
   A. the Vice President 
   B. the Secretary of State 
   C. the President Pro Tempore 
   D. the Speaker of the House of Representatives
3. Guided Instruction: The Civil War
4. ​Reflection Question: Why did Lincoln only free some of the slaves in 1863?

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Homework: The Civil War Reading