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Learning Target Unit Sheet Course__US/AP US History____
Unit/Section Civil War & ReconstructionDay # / Common Core/Quality Core Standard (s)
A.1.a. Apply terms relevant to the content appropriately and accurately.
A.1.c. Interpret timelines of key historical events, people, and periods; locate significant historical places and events on maps.
B.3.a. Identify and analyze the technological, social, and strategic aspects of the Civil War.
B.3.b. Explain the influence of Abraham Lincoln’s philosophy of the Union and his executive actions and leadership on the course of the Civil War.
B.3.c. Describe the basic provisions and immediate impact of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
B.3.d. Evaluate different Reconstruction plans and their social, economic, and political impact on the South and the rest of the United States.
B.3.e. Analyze the immediate and long-term influences of Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans and U.S. society as a whole.
Learning Targets (I Can’s)
ü I can identify the following and apply each appropriately and accurately: Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Antietam, Gettysburg, copperheads, Emancipation Proclamation, Appomattox Courthouse, sharecropping, tenant farming, Freedman’s Bureau, black codes, Compromise of 1877, Jim Crow, literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, segregation, Plessy v. Ferguson, habeas corpus
ü I can identify the timeline of major events of the Civil War
ü I can locate Civil War battlefields; Confederate & Union states & capitals; and border states on a map
ü I can identify and explain the significance of the weaponry of the Civil War
ü I can identify and analyze Scott’s Anaconda Plan and the southern strategy
ü I can explain Lincoln’s philosophy of the Union by analyzing his speeches and actions during the war
ü I can explain Lincoln’s leadership through his actions as Commander-in-Chief
ü I can describe the basic provisions of the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments and their immediate impact
ü I can evaluate Lincoln’s and Johnson’s Reconstruction plans
ü I can evaluate Congressional Reconstruction