Elevate your teaching with our comprehensive presentation package for educators! This resource includes organized Presenter’s Notes for each slide, providing essential guidance at a glance. Available in both PowerPoint and Keynote formats, these engaging materials seamlessly integrate into your classroom. Custom graphics and animations clarify complex concepts while capturing students' attention. Key terms, notable figures, and relevant topics are highlighted, along with related social studies concepts and stimulating higher-order thinking questions. Equip your students with content that fosters curiosity and deepens understanding—get this presentation today to transform your teaching! This Power Point focuses on Causes of the Civil War: "The War Begins".

Overview

These history presentations are designed to give students an overview of the start of the American Civil War. Students will be shown maps, animations and descriptions of some of the major events: Americans Choosing Sides, Attack on Fort Sumter and Union and Confederate Preparations for War.

Customizable

The presentation is totally customizable, allowing you to add your own pictures, graphics and animations to take what we've done even farther. 

Topics Included

Topics include: Confederates seizing federal property, Seward's Plan, Fort Sumter, States Secede, Border States, Northern Resources, Southern Resources, Offense Vs Defense, Cotton Diplomacy, U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Included in The Presentation Package:

1.    Keynote Presentation
2.    Power Point Presentation
3.    Text edit file outline of the presentation and presenter's notes. The package is a digital download (Zip File) of these three items.

American History Presentations

We have a number of Power Points related to American History. These units are proven to engage students in a way that text books and documentaries can’t. Hundreds of teachers are using these lesson plans to bring history to life for students. It’s a unit you’ll use year after year.

McDougal Littel's United States History: Beginnings To 1877
Chapter 16 The Civil War 1861-1865
Section 1 "The War Begins"