Title – Civil War Timeline

By – Patrick Gladys

Primary Subject – Social Studies

Grade Level – 7-12

I. Introduction – Provide students with a list of 15 long-term causes of the Civil War (Bleeding Kansas, Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Act, etc.) After students identify these terms, including year and key players, divide students into discussion groups.

II. Student groups must come up with a rank order of importance 1-15 of what they consider to be the most significant to the least significant cause of the war. They must debate and come up with a group rank. (There is no right or wrong answer.)

III. After ranking the events 1-15, students are to create an annotated timeline using illustrations, or magazine cutouts to provide visual aids for each event.

IV. The timeline should be chronological, with the rank order of importance highlighted or circled next to each one.

V. Last step – students present the timeline to the class and must defend their choices of the ranked order of importance, as well as answer any questions from their classmates about the events they were given.

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