Events+Leading+to+the+Civil+War

Using History Alive Materials, I modified a Unit on the events leading to the Civil War. Students did their own research on various issues and then decided how the North and South might have felt about that issue and Why. At the end of the Unit, the students wrote point of view letters, utilizing the issues they had just learned about. They were given the task of choosing a side, North or South (I gave extra credit to those who chose the South given the difficulty of doing so), and writing in the voice of someone who had lived in 1860.

Here is the handout I created as research: (Lower Level - Blue Access Books) (Higher Level - History Alive Textbooks)

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