About This Space
On this site you will find links, lectures, guided notes, and other resources dedicated to teaching the American Civil War with the assistance of technology. This site was designed to assist with future history lessons and provide useful resources for other teachers looking to teach this topic.
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About this Topic
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The focus of this site is the American Civil War. The Civil War was a unique military and political struggle that turned Americans against each other. It was the deadliest conflict in American history. Fought between 1861 and 1865 between the United States and a secessionist southern Confederacy, it left over 600,000 dead, entire cities utterly destroyed, and a nation in tatters. Interspersed with bravery, heroism, and larger-than-life figures, the story of the Civil War is one of bitterness, violence, and division-- especially over the issue of slavery. Beyond its massive scale, the Civil War is essential to understanding American history and modern American society. Perhaps the most quintessentially American of stories, the Civil War and its legacy have left an indelible impact on American life that continues to be felt and debated to the present day.
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ClassU.S. History
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Grade Level8
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Content Standards Covered In This Topic
California History-Social Science Content Standard.8.10. Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
1. Compare the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized
in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Daniel Webster and John C.
Calhoun.
2. Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical
differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and
industrialists.
3. Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession
and the earliest origins of that doctrine.
4. Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and
their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his “House Divided”
speech (1858), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and
inaugural addresses (1861 and 1865).
5. Study the views and lives of leaders (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
Lee) and soldiers on both sides of the war, including those of black soldiers and
regiments.
6. Describe critical developments and events in the war, including the major battles,
geographical advantages and obstacles, technological advances, and General Lee’s
surrender at Appomattox.
7. Explain how the war affected combatants, civilians, the physical environment, and
future warfare.
1. Compare the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized
in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Daniel Webster and John C.
Calhoun.
2. Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical
differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and
industrialists.
3. Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession
and the earliest origins of that doctrine.
4. Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and
their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his “House Divided”
speech (1858), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and
inaugural addresses (1861 and 1865).
5. Study the views and lives of leaders (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
Lee) and soldiers on both sides of the war, including those of black soldiers and
regiments.
6. Describe critical developments and events in the war, including the major battles,
geographical advantages and obstacles, technological advances, and General Lee’s
surrender at Appomattox.
7. Explain how the war affected combatants, civilians, the physical environment, and
future warfare.
