Civil War and Reconstruction
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Emancipation Proclamation ESCAPE ROOM!
$6.75Emancipation Proclamation Escape Room Activity:The Emancipation Proclamation Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham...$6.75 -
Leveled Reconstruction Reading Guides
$2.50This is the PERFECT three level reading guide to cover Reconstruction. This guide goes along with an article on newsela.com - link to full article below. Students have to read the article and pull text evidence from it in order to answer the questions...$2.50 -
Reconstruction mini-unit, including text
$10.00As the Civil War came to its bloody conclusion, the country was faced with a monumental task: bring the Confederate states back into the body politic, rebuild the war-ravaged Southern economy, and integrate over three million former slaves into free...$10.00 -
Women in the Civil War mini-unit, including text
$4.00In this mini-unit, students will learn about the unique experience of women in the Civil War. Frustrated with societal norms that prevented them from participating as men could, many women disguised themselves as men and fought, spied for their...$4.00 -
African-Americans in the Civil War mini-unit, including text
$6.00Unlike the American Revolutionary War, there was no conflict or disagreement amongst African-Americans over which side to support. Although Northern policy at the beginning of the war was to preclude black participation in the war effort, both the need...$6.00 -
Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz Show
$4.00Let’s face it – review and study prep for a Civil War and Reconstruction unit test is not exactly a student’s idea of fun. As a teacher, however, you can take away most of the boredom and drudgery by making a game out of it. This 106...$4.00 -
Other Battlefronts game - African Americans & women in the Civil War, with text
$5.00The Civil War presented African-Americans and women with unique opportunities and challenges. For slaves, the North provided an opportunity to escape their bondage, enlist in the army, and return to fight their former oppressors. It gave free blacks a...$5.00 -
Gettysburg Address primary source translation activity
$2.00President Lincoln wasn’t even on the original guest list for the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Both he and the war were highly unpopular at the time, given the appalling numbers of casualties and no end in sight. He was eventually...$2.00 -
The Civil War and Reconstruction unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 15 day complete unit covers the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction, 1861-1876. The unit examines: the political, military, economic and social strategies, triumphs and failures of the War itself; the Emancipation Proclamation; the...$30.00 -
Dred Scott mini-unit, including text and primary source activity
$5.00In 1858, as the fight over the future of slavery in the United States was reaching fever pitch, the Supreme Court was asked to rule on the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Scott, a slave from Missouri, had lived with a previous owner both in the free...$5.00 -
American Slavery Primary Source Activity
$4.00The study of America, from its founding through the Civil War, necessitates a close examination of the enslaved peoples whose labor built this nation and the "peculiar institution" which required a horrific war to bring to an end. Part of that study...$4.00 -
Wolf by the Ears - the Fight Over Slavery unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 15 day complete unit covers the country’s growing economic, social, and political split over the spread of slavery in the first half of the 19th century, which eventually led to the secession of most of the Southern states, the bombardment of...$30.00