Alabama Social Studies SS24.4.13d
The Standard
- SS24.4.13
- Describe how slavery contributed to sectional disagreements, divisions over states’ rights, and economic disputes resulting in the Civil War.
Summarize Alabama’s role in the formation of the Confederate States of America, including the pivotal events that took place in Montgomery and the division over secession in the northern part of the state.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain that Alabama seceded in 1861 to protect slavery and joined other seceding states to form the Confederacy in Montgomery. They identify Montgomery as its first capital and explain that some northern Alabamians opposed secession.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student puts Alabama’s secession, the Montgomery meeting, and Jefferson Davis’s inauguration in order. They locate Montgomery and northern Alabama on a map and explain that residents disagreed about secession.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every Alabamian supported secession or that everyone in northern Alabama opposed it. They may confuse Alabama’s secession with the later meeting that formed the Confederate government.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Write three sentences explaining why Alabama seceded, what delegates did in Montgomery, and how some northern Alabamians reacted.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On an Alabama outline map, mark Montgomery as the first Confederate capital and place opposing secession opinion notes near northern Alabama.
Ask students to write two sentences: What happened in Montgomery in 1861, and why did some northern Alabamians oppose secession?
Give pairs four cards: Alabama secedes, delegates meet, Davis is inaugurated, capital moves to Richmond; have them race to order the cards.
Show a photo of Alabama’s Capitol today; students write a two-sentence visitor label explaining Jefferson Davis’s 1861 inauguration there.
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