Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors,
and institutions by identifying likenesses and differences.
Consider multiple perspectives of various peoples in the past by demonstrating
their differing motives, beliefs, interests, hopes, and fears.
Evaluate major debates among historians concerning alternative interpretations
of the past.
Formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents.
Interrogate historical data by uncovering the social, political, and economic
context in which it was created.
Demonstrate understanding of how the North and South differed and how politics
and ideologies led to the Civil War by charting the secession of the southern
states, explaining the process and reasons for secession, and evaluating the
importance of slavery as a principle cause of the conflict.
Analyze the causes and effects of major events of the Civil War and Reconstruction,
including slavery, States' Rights Doctrine, secession.
Center
for Technology and Teacher Education,
University of Virginia,
This module
created by Alice Carter of the
University of Virginia..