Era 5 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1850-1877)

NATIONAL STANDARDS / KEY TERM
CONNECTIONS / SAMPLE ACTIVITIES / MULTIMEDIA / WEBSITES

ERA 5

Standard 1

Causes

Standard 2
Character and Effects
Standard 3
Reconstruction
The Newark Public Schools
Social Studies Curriculum Guide
http://www.nps.k12.nj.us/curriculum.htm
Additional Resources:
“The Americans”
McDougal-Littell
http://www.mcdougallittell.com
“Pathways to the Present”
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/pathways/index.html /

Key Terms

secede
Irrepressible conflict
Thirteenth Amendment

Contraband Relief Organization

Ku Klux Klan

40 acres and a mule
Howard University
Reconstruction Act 1867
Skagway’s troops:24th Infantry, US Army
Buffalo Soldiers
convict-lease
15th amendment
gerrymandering
civil rights bill 1866,1875

Events

Juneteenth
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Antietam

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,Tennessee
Andersonville /
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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Use as a picture prompt writing assignment Enlarge to offer students the many details or click picture to go directly to website.
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.
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.html /

Encarta Africana

Film

Glory (1989)
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
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 / www.africana.com
www.xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/SCARTOONS/cartoons
www.angelfire.com/wi/Carver/csaaa
www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4
www.historychannel.com
www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory
African-American Odyssey
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html
African American Military History
www.geocities.com/mclane65/black-heroes.html
Women In History
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/fiel-mar.htm
Blacks in The West
http://pages.prodigy.com/custer/dorman.htm
Timeline 1852-1880
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timeline.html
American Memory
http://westfieldnj.com/whs/history/index.html
www.encarta.msn.com

THE PLAINFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS ` AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE GUIDE