Era 5
Civil War and Reconstruction
(1850-1877)
Prelude
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (Unit Plan)
Before the Civil War
A brief explination about before the civil war, and the important issues that went on.
Freedmen and Native Americans
This lesson is designed to have the students learn another view of slavery. Students will read and analyze two slave narratives. The students will create their own parallel slave diaries using source documents.
Slavery
This Webquest is used during the Civil War and Reconstruction Unit. It is on slavery before the Civil War and on Slavery is today. It has several projects that students must complete to show there knowledge of what they have learned
Effects of the Cotton Gin on Life in the United States: Different Perspectives
This WebQuest was developed for 8th grade students in a gifted seminar setting. It delves into the effects the cotton gin had on various characters in the early 1800's and studies the interpersonal relationships of those characters. This WebQuest promotes higher level thinking skills. With modifications this WebQuest would work for other grade levels in regular classrooms.
Election of 1860 Project
Students read the party platforms in the pivotal election of 1860 and design a campaign presentation for one of the four candidates.
In the Cause of Freedom
In groups, students examine John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry and propose a design for a national monument
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Design a mural to commemorate the two
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ... We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg |
Our Nation's Civil War
Civil War News Cast
This is a webquest that directs students to create a Civil War News Cast. The students are in groups of four and each student has a role. The roles are reporting from an actual battle, interviewing a general, doing a statistical analysis between three battles about casulties, and giving a detailed report on the medical practices being used by either the North or the South.
A Personal Journal - Gettysburg - July 1,2,3, 1863
Students develop a character that is in Gettysburg, PA on July 1,2,3, 1863. They develop a journal entry for each of the three days of the famous battle. Along with the journal entry students create maps and pictures to go along with their journal entries
What if the South Won the Civil War?
Learn how the civil war was started and how things might have changed with this drastic alteration of American History.
Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
The images in this digital collection are drawn from the New-York Historical Society's rich archival collections that document the Civil War.
Portrait of a Soldier
This quest takes students through a picturial view of the lives and times of Civil War Soldiers of the North, South, and Colored Troops. Students write a pursuasive essay about their findings.
The Civil war.net
A very useful page, with letters, pictures, maps of the battle grounds, and more.
Reconstruction
After the Civil War
A short summery about what happened after the Civil war, and some of the things that went on in this US afterwards.
From These Honored Dead: A Pseudo-Personal Look at the Civil War
It has taken over a century for the U.S. to come to terms with the War Between the States. It was the costliest war in American history in terms of American lives. But how did we get to such a point? What did this war do for the average American? And in what ways did this conflict shape American politics during the rest of the century? THAT is the purpose of this project.
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Teaching With Documents: Lincoln's Spot Resolutions
