Unit Overview/Summary - FOCUS:  

There were political, social, and military aspects of the Civil War. In this unit, grade eight students will analyze ways that various groups, including immigrants, free blacks, enslaved blacks, and Indigenous Peoples, participated in the Civil War.  Students will evaluate Connecticut’s contributions to the Civil War, using primary sources and other media from the time period. Students will investigate the different perspectives in Connecticut regarding the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. Students will analyze how immigration continued during the Civil War era and how this immigration altered the economic and social structure of the United States.  Students will evaluate the purpose, the actions and the results of the Reconstruction era in the American South and compare both the successes and the failures of the Reconstruction era.   

 Unit Duration:

30 Days. Five 50-minute sessions per week x 4 weeks