Era 5 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1850-1877)
NATIONAL STANDARDS
ERA 5
Standard 1
Causes
Standard 2
Character and Effects
Standard 3
Reconstruction
KEY TERM
CONNECTIONS
Key Terms
secede
Irrepressible
conflict
Thirteenth
Amendment
http://www.phschool.com/at
school/pathways/index.html
Events
Juneteenth
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Antietam
THE PLAINFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MULTIMEDIA
WEBSITES
Encarta Africana
www.africana.com
Film
Glory (1989)
www.xroads.virginia.edu/~C
AP/SCARTOONS/cartoons
Birth of a Nation (1915) www.angelfire.com/wi/Carv
er/csaaa
Contraband Relief
Organization
Ku Klux Klan
40 acres and a
mule
Howard
The Newark Public Schools University
Social Studies Curriculum
Reconstruction
Guide
Act 1867
http://www.nps.k12.nj.us/cur Skagway’s
riculum.htm
troops:24th
Infantry, US
Additional Resources:
Army
Buffalo Soldiers
“The Americans”
convict-lease
McDougal-Littell
15th amendment
gerrymandering
http://www.mcdougallittell.co civil rights bill
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1866,1875
“Pathways to the Present”
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
Gone With the Wind
(1939)
Use as a picture prompt writing
assignment Enlarge to offer students
the many details or click picture to go
directly to website.
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Andersonville (1996)
Sommersby (1993)
The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly (1966)
The Texans (1936)
Separate But Equal
(vt112O37)
Books
Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1852)
By Harriett Beecher Stowe
See attached bibliography
Use as a picture prompt writing
assignment Enlarge to offer students
the many details or click picture to go
directly to website.
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www.memory.loc.gov/a
mmem/aaohtml/exhibit/
aopart4
www.historychannel.co
m
www.brightmoments.co
m/blackhistory
African-American
Odyssey
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amm
em/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart
5.html
African American
Military History
www.geocities.com/mcl
ane65/blackheroes.html
Women In History
AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE GUIDE
Appomatox Court
House
People
William Seward
Exodusters
Elizabeth
Keckley
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Frederick
Douglass
Robert Lee
Ulysses Grant
Elizabeth Johnson
Harris
Alexander Crummell
Joseph Hayne
Rainey
Mary Fields
Isaiah Dorman
Ebenezer Don
Carlos Bassett
Places
Pulaski,Tenness
ee
Andersonville
THE PLAINFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
http://www.lkwdpl.org/
wihohio/fiel-mar.htm
Have students create an informative
pamphlet that the freedman’s bureau
may have distributed to newly feed
slaves
Divide students into pairs. Instruct
each pair to write letters to each
other in which they describe at least
5 ways that life has changed for the
newly freed slaves.
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Divide the class into small groups.
Allow each group to locate
information about life in one of the all
black towns that developed in the
post Civil War west and create a
museum exhibit featuring the
information they found.
Blacks in The West
http://pages.prodigy.co
m/custer/dorman.htm
Timeline 1852-1880
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/a
mmem/aap/timeline.ht
ml
American Memory
http://westfieldnj.com/whs/hi
story/index.html
www.encarta.msn.com
www.blacktowns.org/flash/index.htm
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Have students label a map of New
Jersey with the names of all black
towns that developed in the post
Civil War period.
http://westfieldnj.com/whs/history/index.h
tml
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