1. Unit Questions
What separated the North and the South economically, culturally, and politically?
What is the “States’ Rights” movement?
What political compromises held together the Union before the Civil War?
What incidents lead escaladed tensions between the North and South?
What was slavery like?

2. Thought Jot With two other Study Buddies look at these two maps.
Examine these two maps and come up with a possible explanation for why the Slave States (South) are now clearly divided from the Free States (North).

3. Thought Jot
Even today, stereotypes about “people from the South” and “people from the North.”
Give an example. (spilt classroom in half)
How might these stereotypes be leftovers of the Civil War?

4. Categories Economy: making money/doing business/working
Climate/Geography: weather, climate, physical features, landforms, rivers, mountains
Culture/Society: How people live, what people are like

5. Thought Jot #1
 How might these Economic differences have caused a spit between the North and South?

6. Thought Jot #2
How might these Climatic/Geographic differences have caused a spit between the North and South?

7. Thought Jot #3
How might these Social/Cultural differences have caused a spit between the North and South?

9. Thought Jot #4
The Civil War was being fought in The MLK's March on Washington was in  
Why did might it have taken 100 years for the USA to address the issues that the Civil War was fought over?