STANDARD VUS.6g The student will apply social science skills to understand major events in Virginia and United States history during the first half of the nineteenth century by g) evaluating and explaining the multiple causes and compromises leading to the Civil War, including the role of the institution of slavery. Essential Understandings Essential Knowledge The events of the 1850s, combined Causes of the Civil War with the lack of strong presidential Sectional disagreements and debates over tariffs, extension of slavery into the territories, and the nature of the Union leadership, led to the secession of (states’ rights) Southern states. Northern abolitionists vs. Southern defenders of slavery Publication of by Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Sectional tensions, originating with the United States Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case formation of the nation, ultimately A series of failed compromises over the expansion of slavery in the territories and the Fugitive Slave Act resulted in war between the Northern and Southern states.
STANDARD VUS.6g The student will apply social science skills to understand major events in Virginia and United States history during the first half of the nineteenth century by g) evaluating and explaining the multiple causes and compromises leading to the Civil War, including the role of the institution of slavery. Essential Understandings Essential Knowledge The events of the 1850s, combined with the lack of strong presidential leadership, led to the secession of Southern states. Sectional tensions, originating with the formation of the nation, ultimately resulted in war between the Northern and Southern states. Causes of the Civil War Sectional disagreements and debates over tariffs, extension of slavery into the territories, and the nature of the Union (states’ rights) Northern abolitionists vs. Southern defenders of slavery Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe United States Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case A series of failed compromises over the expansion of slavery in the territories and the Fugitive Slave Act