---
title: "SS4H5: Civil War Causes and Consequences (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS4H5
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS4H5
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - grade-4
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# SS4H5: Civil War Causes and Consequences

Explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 4, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-4.md

## Expectations

- **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.
- **SS4H5.e**: Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.