Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.11c
The Standard
- SS24.AS.11
- Outline Alabama’s participation in events leading to the Civil War and in the war itself, and explain how the war created change within the state.
Assess the impacts of the Civil War on Alabama’s economy and infrastructure, and identify battles and campaigns that affected these.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Conflict
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students locate the Battle of Mobile Bay, Wilson's Raid at Selma, and the 1865 Mobile campaign on a map. They explain how fighting disrupted port trade and damaged rail lines and factories.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that damage to Selma's rail lines and factories slowed the movement and production of supplies. They can distinguish the 1864 battle for Mobile Bay from the 1865 capture of Mobile.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Union forces captured the city of Mobile during the 1864 naval battle. They may name a damaged railroad without explaining how that damage affected shipments or production.
How to Assess It
- On a blank Alabama map, have students mark Selma and Mobile Bay. Ask them to name a battle or campaign at each place and write one effect on trade, transport, or production.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an 1860s Alabama rail map; have them mark Selma and Mobile Bay, then trace a supply route disrupted by the fighting.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how damage to Selma's rail lines could affect a factory elsewhere in Alabama.
Run a card sort matching Mobile Bay, Wilson's Raid, and the Mobile campaign with affected ports, rail lines, and factories.
Give students a short Port of Mobile cargo list; ask which shipments would be delayed if ships could not enter the bay.
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