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The Agricultural South: Plantations, Cotton, and Enslaved Labor
Analyze how the invention of the cotton gin fueled the Southern plantation economy and reliance on enslaved labor.
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Antebellum America: Regional Differences and the Abolition Movement
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Compare the contrasting economies, cultures, and daily life of the Antebellum North and South, and examine the rise of abolitionist resistance and the Underground Railroad.
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SS.5.7West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain the concept of supply and demand in specific historic and current economic situations in the United States (e.g., slavery, oil, gas, Industrial Revolution, etc.).
SS.5.10West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesCompare the industrial North and the agricultural South prior to the Civil War, the geographic characteristics and boundaries of each region and the basic way of life in each region.
SS.5.20West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesDemonstrate an understanding of the industrial North and the agricultural South before, during and after the Civil War. • Research the roles and accomplishments of the leaders of the reform movements before and during the Civil War (e.g., abolition movement, Underground Railroad and other social reforms, etc.). • Explain how specific events and issues led to the Civil War (e.g., sectionalism fueled by issues of slavery in the territories, states’ rights, election of 1860 and secession). • Summarize key battles, strategies and turning points of the Civil War (e.g., Fort Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg, other regional battles and the surrender at Appomattox). • Compare the roles and accomplishments of historic figures of the Civil War (e.g., Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address) Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton and Frederick Douglass, etc.). • Explain the impact of the Civil War’s physical destruction on the nation and the people (e.g., soldiers, women, African Americans, and the civilian population, etc.).