United States History to 1877
Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860s to 1877
USI.9
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes, major events, and effects of the Civil War by
- a) describing the cultural, economic, and constitutional issues that divided the nation;
- b) explaining how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased sectional tensions;
- c) identifying on a map the states that seceded from the Union and those that remained in the Union;
- d) describing the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Frederick Douglass in events leading to and during the war;
- e) using maps to explain critical developments in the war, including major battles;
- f) describing the effects of war from the perspectives of Union and Confederate soldiers (including black soldiers), women, and slaves.
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