Georgia SS4H5

SS4H5 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS4H5.a

  Identify Uncle Tom's Cabin and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.

• SS4H5.b

  Discuss how the issues of states' rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.

• SS4H5.c

  Identify major battles, campaigns, and events: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.

• SS4H5.d

  Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and William T. Sherman.

• SS4H5.e

  Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students connect slavery and disputes over states' rights to secession and war. They sequence key events, match major leaders to their roles, and explain the effects on people, land, and the economy.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can build an accurate account from sectional tension through Appomattox. They place major events in order and identify leaders' roles. They use examples such as the Emancipation Proclamation or Sherman's March to explain specific effects.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat states' rights and slavery as unrelated, though Southern secession documents centered on protecting slavery. They may think the Emancipation Proclamation freed every enslaved person immediately, or that Appomattox ended inequality at once.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one cause, put Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and Appomattox in order, then explain one consequence in two sentences.

1. 01

   Give pairs cause, battle, leader, and consequence cards to sort into a labeled timeline, then ask them to defend two placements.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How did slavery and disputes over states' rights lead Southern states to secede?

3. 03

   Play a clue game where teams identify a leader, event, cause, or consequence and explain the evidence behind each answer.

4. 04

   Use a Georgia map to trace Sherman's route and mark how damaged railroads, farms, and towns affected soldiers and civilians.

• SS8H5.a

  Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states' rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Pl...

• SS4H1

  Explain the causes, events, and results of the American Revolution.

• SS4H3.a

  Describe the causes and events of the War of 1812; include the burning of the Capitol and the White House and the writing of "The Star Spangled Banner."