Pre-Civil War
Unit Question
What factors contributed to the start of the Civil War? How are these issues resolved?
Notes
1) What invention helped with an increase in the production of cotton?
2) _____________________linked the North and the South?
3) How many of the original signers of the Constitution owned slaves?
4) ______________% of slaves grew cotton.
5) Compare life expectancy for whites with African-Americans.
6) What were five parts of the slave code?
7) Compare house slaves and field slaves.
8) Describe life for free African-Americans in the South.
9) Explain three ways that slaves resisted.
10) Who was Harriet Tubman?
2) _____________________linked the North and the South?
3) How many of the original signers of the Constitution owned slaves?
4) ______________% of slaves grew cotton.
5) Compare life expectancy for whites with African-Americans.
6) What were five parts of the slave code?
7) Compare house slaves and field slaves.
8) Describe life for free African-Americans in the South.
9) Explain three ways that slaves resisted.
10) Who was Harriet Tubman?
Assignments
Video Clips
-Slavery
-Underground RR
-Underground RR
1. Without ________________________________________from the South, Northern industries would not have grown as quickly as they did.
2. List one of the larger cities in the South mentioned in the video.
3. The South produced only about _____________% of the nations industrialized goods.
4. What was a refuge for many slaves?
5. Where did most runaway try to go in order to be safe from the Fugitive Slave Laws?
2. List one of the larger cities in the South mentioned in the video.
3. The South produced only about _____________% of the nations industrialized goods.
4. What was a refuge for many slaves?
5. Where did most runaway try to go in order to be safe from the Fugitive Slave Laws?
The Civil War
Notes
1) If you were Lincoln, would you have handled things any differently?
2) What advantages did the North and South have?
3) What is martial law?
4) How did the early encounters turn out?
5) What is Lincoln's view on uniting the country and ending slavery?
6) What roles did African Americans play during the war? Women?
7) Why did many people in the North oppose the War?
2) What advantages did the North and South have?
3) What is martial law?
4) How did the early encounters turn out?
5) What is Lincoln's view on uniting the country and ending slavery?
6) What roles did African Americans play during the war? Women?
7) Why did many people in the North oppose the War?
Video Clips
-The Civil War
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln