Analyze the Civil War 1861-1865 from MULTIPLE perspectives — Union + Confederate + enslaved-people-becoming-free + USCT 180,000 + women + Indigenous-nations-on-both-sides + immigrant soldiers — covering major battles + Emancipation Proclamation + Gettysburg + Sherman's March + Appomattox + Lincoln assassination + Juneteenth

Use Union + Confederate + USCT + Indigenous + women's primary sources; analyze battles via geography + technology; refuse 'tragic war between brothers' framing by centering enslaved-people-becoming-free as transformative agents per Du Bois 1935.

Mastery threshold

90%

Min instances

Typical minutes

Spaced intervals (days)

1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60

Prereqs

Analyze the election of 1860, South Carolina secession December 20 1860, and the formation of the Confederate States of America with Stephens 1861 Cornerstone Speech as primary-source evidence of slavery as cause

Successors

Analyze the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments as the SECOND FOUNDING (Foner 2019) — abolishing slavery + establishing birthright citizenship + equal protection + due process + prohibiting racial discrimination in voting

Common misconceptions

Treating the Emancipation Proclamation as the moment slavery 'ended' — it freed enslaved people in Confederate-held territory only; 13th Amendment ratified December 6 1865 ended slavery legally
Believing the Civil War was 'fought between North and South' — there were Unionist Southerners (East TN + West VA which split off 1863) + Confederate Northerners + Indigenous nations on both sides + immigrants in both armies + the war's most transformative actor was the enslaved population walking off plantations

Exercise pool (11)

Diff	Stem	Type
1	How many combined casualties at Battle of Antietam Sept 17 1862?	short answer
1	Approximately how many Black soldiers served in the USCT?	short answer
1	Who killed Lincoln + when + where?	short answer
2	Name 1 Indigenous leader on each side of the Cherokee Nation Civil War split.	short answer
2	Name 2 things the Emancipation Proclamation Jan 1 1863 did NOT do.	short answer
2	Who led the Combahee River Raid June 2 1863 + how many enslaved people were freed?	short answer
2	When + where did the Battle of the Crater occur? What was the USCT role?	short answer
2	What were Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15 Jan 16 1865? Who rescinded them?	short answer
2	What does Juneteenth June 19 1865 commemorate? When did it become a federal holiday?	short answer
3	What did Frederick Douglass mean by 'he who would be free, themselves must strike the blow' in 'Men of Color, To Arms!' March 21 1863?	short answer
4	Quote 1 sentence from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Nov 19 1863 + identify 1 rhetorical move (parallelism / antithesis / climactic tricolon).	essay