California Department of Education Curriculum Standards Addressed by this Living History Tour

"8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War."

"...the causes and consequences of the Civil War..."
"...how slavery eventually become too divisive..."
"...The war itself should be studied closely, both the critical battle-field campaigns and the human meaning of the war in the lives of soldier..."
"...the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Ostend Manifesto, the Dred Scott case, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates..."
"...a watershed in American history..."

Source: www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/

Subjects covered by this tour include:
-The debate of State Rights vs. a Federal Government
-The economic systems of the North and South
-The Agricultural South vs the Industrial North
-Social and Daily Life of Soldiers
-The implications of a Civil War that is "brother against brother"
-Home life of women and children, and their role in the war
-Field medicine and doctors