Cloning the Author

As you read Getting the Civil War Right and Myths About the Civil War and Slavery (Teaching Tolerance. Fall, 2011. Issue
40) write down ten points you see as important, putting one point in each of the boxes (provided below). Cut out your
boxes and bring them to class.

Getting the Civil War Right http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-40-fall-2011/feature/getting-civil-war-right

Myths About the Civil War and Slavery http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/myths-about-civil-war-and-slavery

If Abraham Lincoln could’ve united the states again

without freeing the slaves, he would’ve.
A lot of people think states’ rights were the cause of the
Civil War, but slavery played a major part in it

Not acknowledging slavery as the cause of the Civil War is

not acknowledging white supremacy.