Lesson Plan The Soldier's Experience: Letters from Four American Wars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this four-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Sharecropping Contracts in the Reconstruction-Era South, 1867-1870 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this three-lesson unit.
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Sectional Conflict Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 I do not . . . hesitate to avow before this House and the country, and in the presence of the living God, that if by your legislation you seek to drive us from the territories of California and New Mexico, purchased by the...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Secession and the Civil War Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 The leaders and oracles of the most powerful party in the United States have denounced us as tyrants and unprincipled heathens through the whole civilized world. They have preached it from their pulpits. They have declared...
Lesson Plan Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Essential Question To what degree was Abraham Lincoln successful in achieving his goals? Background The Civil War was perhaps the most momentous event that the United States endured in its history. Author and historian Shelby Foote...
Lesson Plan What Events Led to Lincoln’s Assassination? 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Overview Fourth-grade students often associate Abraham Lincoln with three things: He wore a tall hat, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and he was assassinated. The murder of Lincoln, whom most historians consider one of the...
Lesson Plan The Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy 9, 10, 11, 12 Overview: The Founding Fathers created the Supreme Court in Article III of the Constitution of the United States. The most influential role of the Court, however, was defined later through the appeal process, in cases involving the...
Lesson Plan An "Unconstitutional" Act? The Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Background At the beginning of the Civil War, as the number of dead increased daily, a force of opposition to the war efforts began to intensify in the Congress and in the voices of the American people. Abraham Lincoln, in an effort...