US Reconstruction (1865-1877)
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Digigtal Download Unit: US Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Everything you need to teach about American Reconstruction after the Civil War!
It includes the 141 political cartoons (from Reconstruction Told Through Political Cartoons), plus . . .
Workbook includes:
- Lectures
- Timelines, charts, graphic organizers
- Maps and mapping
- Political cartoons
- Photos and videos
- Profiles of the people who made history
- Famous speeches and quotations
- Group analysis based on Bloom’s taxonomy
- Games galore!
- Homework on the Internet
- The Mother of All Tests
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In the big workbook, most of the lessons can be used as homework on the Internet.
1. Introduction
Lesson #1 Lecture What was Reconstruction?
Lesson #2 Video Three plans
Lesson #3 Game Three plans
Lesson #4 Game Three plans
Lesson #5 Game Three Amendments
Lesson #6 Game Three Amendments
Lesson #7 Video Reconstruction was violent
2. The 13th Amendment
Lesson #1 Lecture The 13th Amendment
Lesson #2 Political cartoons The 13th Amendment
Lesson #3 Lecture The Freedmen’s Bureau
Lesson #4 Political cartoons The Freedmen’s Bureau
Lesson #5 Research Forty acres and a mule
Lesson #6 Document The Black Codes
Lesson #7 Research The Black Codes
Lesson #8 Research The life of a sharecropper
Lesson #9 Group analysis The sharecropping system
3. The 14th Amendment
Lesson #1 Lecture The 14th Amendment
Lesson #2 Political cartoons The 14th Amendment
Lesson #3 Lecture The Ku Klux Klan
Lesson #4 Research The Ku Klux Klan
Lesson #5 Research Race riots
Lesson #6 Group analysis White supremacy
4. The 15th Amendment
Lesson #1 Lecture The 15th Amendment
Lesson #2 Political cartoons The 15th Amendment
5. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Lesson #1 Profile Andrew Johnson: How he became President
Lesson #2 Profile Andrew Johnson: How did he reconstruct the South?
Lesson #3 Profile Andrew Johnson: The veto
Lesson #4 Profile Andrew Johnson: Impeachment
Lesson #5 Lecture The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Lesson #6 Research The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Lesson #7 Political cartoons Andrew Johnson
Lesson #8 Political cartoons The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Lesson #9 Group analysis Impeachment
6. The Radical Republicans
Lesson #1 Lecture The Radical Republicans
Lesson #2 Research Military occupation of the South
Lesson #3 Profile U.S. Grant: Fighting Robert E. Lee
Lesson #4 Profile U.S. Grant: Surrender at Appomattox
Lesson #5 Profile U.S. Grant: Election of 1868
Lesson #6 Profile U.S. Grant: Reconstruction
Lesson #7 Lecture African Americans were elected to office
Lesson #8 Research African Americans were elected to office
Lesson #9 Videos Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
Lesson #10 Group analysis Carpetbaggers
Lesson #11 Group analysis Scalawags
7. Compare the two political parties
Lesson #1 Political cartoons The Republican Party
Lesson #2 Political cartoons The Democratic Party
8. The end of Reconstruction
Lesson #1 Political cartoons Some Northerners grew tired of Reconstruction
Lesson #2 Lecture The Compromise of 1877
Lesson #3 Political cartoons The Compromise of 1877
Lesson #4 Group analysis The Compromise of 1877
Lesson #5 Profile Rutherford B. Hayes: His political career
Lesson #6 Profile Rutherford B. Hayes: The Panic of 1873
Lesson #7 Profile Rutherford B. Hayes: Election of 1876
Lesson #8 Profile Rutherford B. Hayes: The end of Reconstruction
Lesson #9 Lecture Why Reconstruction came to an end
Lesson #10 Lecture Reconstruction was a failure
Lesson #11 Political cartoons Reconstruction was a failure
Lesson #12 Graphic organizer Results of Reconstruction
Lesson #13 Group analysis The “Solid South”
9. The “New South”
Lesson #1 Lecture Jim Crow laws
Lesson #2 Research Jim Crow laws
Lesson #3 Student project What you could and couldn’t do
Lesson #4 Group analysis Jim Crow laws
Lesson #5 Political cartoons The South was “fine”
10. African Americans fled the South
Lesson #1 Lecture Why did black families move out West?
Lesson #2 Research The Exodusters
Lesson #3 Political cartoons The Exodusters
Lesson #4 Group analysis The Exodusters
Lesson #5 Quotations Frederick Douglass and Colin Powell
Lesson #6 Lecture The Buffalo Soldiers
Lesson #7 Videos The Buffalo Soldiers
Lesson #8 Mapping The Buffalo Soldiers
Summary
Lesson #1 Game The ABCs of Reconstruction
Lesson #2 Game Can you talk like a Radical Republican?
Lesson #3 Graphic organizer Reconstruction
Lesson #4 Evaluate Rank the famous people
Lesson #5 Group analysis Reconstruction
Lesson #6 Group analysis Reconstruction
Lesson #7 Game Mars / Venus
Lesson #8 Game Honk if you hate history!
Lesson #9 Game The Last Man Standing
The Test
The test consists of 103 questions.