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Unit 3: The Civil War, Part One

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Unit 3 [flag bg_color=”#d6e3bc” text_color=”#9d241a”]Middle School[/flag]

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Unit Overview

Subjects Covered

Grammar, Literature, Composition, History

Time Period

Modern

Grade Level

Middle School: 6 – 8

Civilization

American

Literature

Poetry of the Modern Time Period – by Edgar Allen Poe. 

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Unit Description

Robert E. Lee was the most famous general for the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant was the same for the Union army. The Battle of Gettysburg proved to be a crushing blow to Lee’s Confederate forces and led to the surrender of other Confederate strongholds and a quick surrender to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union army at Appomattox Court House.

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Leading Ideas and Biblical Principles

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• Honesty is a character quality to be desired.
  • The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please Him. — Proverbs 20:23
• The Bible provides the ethics upon which to judge people and nations.
  • And God spoke all these words:…(continue reading). — Exodus 20:1-17
• God is sovereign over the affairs of men.
  • From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. — Acts 17:26

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Unit 3 Resources: [flag bg_color=”#d6e3bc” text_color=”#9d241a”]Middle School[/flag]

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Additional Maps:

• Map of the Compromise of 1850
• Map of Underground Railroad Routes, c.1650
• Map of Votes during the Election of 1860
• Map of Free States and Slave States
• Map of American Civil War Battles
• Animated Maps of the Civil War

Complementary Sources:

• Timeline of Events Leading to the Civil War
• Timeline of the American Civil War
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• The Kanas-Nebraska Act – a transcript of the original document
• The Database of Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War
• Civil War Soldier
• Civil War Weapons
• The Merrimack and Monitor – summary of the battle and pictures
• Timeline of USA Presidents, includes major events during presidencies

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Robert Frost, “Road Not Taken”

Robert Frost, “Choose Something Like a Star”

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