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Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

• 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.
• SS4G1.b — Locate major man-made features of the United States: New York City, NY; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, D.C.; Gettysburg, PA; and the Erie Canal.
• MGS.7 — Map and Globe Skill 7: use a map to explain impact of geography on historical and current events (mastered in Grade 4)
• SS4H5.e — Describe the effects of war on the North and South.
• IPS.1 — Information Processing Skill 1: compare similarities and differences (already mastered; apply and improve)

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