Fourteen activities. Eleven PowerPoint presentations. Every major event, figure, battle, and turning point from the brutality of slavery and the abolitionist movement through Gettysburg, emancipation, and the final years of the war. This isn't a surface-level survey — by the time students finish this unit they've read primary source documents, analyzed maps, wrestled with the human cost of the conflict, and built the kind of historical foundation that carries them through the rest of American hi