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Standard USHC-3.1

USHC-3.1 Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, c...

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Evaluating Short- and Long-Term Causes of the Civil War

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Evaluating Short- and Long-Term Causes of the Civil War

Use multiple sources (letters, news clippings, political cartoons, etc.) to evaluate the causes of the Civil War.

The "Buffalo Soldiers": Contributions of the first African-American soldiers in the U.S. Army

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The "Buffalo Soldiers": Contributions of the first African-American soldiers in the U.S. Army

In this lesson, students will learn the history of this group of patriotic, but little-known African American soldiers that were organized in the mid-1800s, right after the Civil War. Two different...