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Standard D - The student describes the ways nations and organizations respond to forces of unity and diversity affecting order and security.ДЎ) Describe events in the region of Pensacola, Florida, that preceded the Civil War Дў) Examine the role of Fort Pickens prior to and during the Civil War ДЈ) Evaluate decisions made by key individuals in Pensacola in 1861, and to describe the consequences of those decisions Д¤) Investigate the impact of military installations in their own community.Standard C - The student analyzes and explains ideas and governmental mechanisms to meet needs and wants of citizens, regulate territory, manage conflict, and establish order and security.Theme VI: Power, Authority, and Governance Standard E - The student identifies and describes examples of tensions between belief systems and government policies and laws.Theme V: Individuals, Groups, and Institutions Standard A - The student elaborates mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape. Theme III: People, Places, and Environment Standard D - The student identifies and uses processes important to reconstructing and reinterpreting the past, such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.Standard B - The student explains how information and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference.

Relates to the following Social Studies Standards:

Standard 2B: The student understands the social experience of the war on the battlefield and homefront.

Standard 2A: The student understands how the resources of the Union and Confederacy affected the course of the war.

Standard 1A: The student understands how the North and South differed and how politics and ideologies led to the Civil War.

Relates to the following National Standards for History:Д®ra 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) United States History Standards for Grades 5-12ДЇort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War Topics: This lesson could be used in teaching units on the Civil War in U.S.

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This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country. TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park Service. The lesson was edited by Fay Metcalf and the Teaching with Historic Places staff. It was written by Ann Marie Folker, a Park Ranger at Gulf Islands National Seashore.

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This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration files 'Fort Pickens' (with photographs) and 'Fort Barrancas Historic District' (with photographs), and on historic structure reports for both forts. They provide an intriguing setting for the important events that occurred in the Pensacola area just prior to and during the Civil War. Army without initiating bloodshed.ДЇort Pickens and nearby Fort McRee, Fort Barrancas, and Advanced Redoubt today lie within Gulf Islands National Seashore.

Months before the firing on Fort Sumter, the secessionist forces at nearby Pensacola, Florida, tried to capture the fort from the U.S.

One of the largest brick forts built in the United States, Fort Pickens provided the setting for a serious conflict right before the outbreak of the Civil War. The peaceful surroundings-white sugar-sand beaches, clumps of golden sea oats, and the soothing sounds of coastal waves pounding on the shores of a long barrier island-belie the serious purpose of Fort Pickens, located on Santa Rosa Island in Florida. This lesson is part of the National Park ServiceвЂ™s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program.