RECONSTRUCTION/JIM CROW, 1865-1890

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Free Lessons

Sample Lesson: Policies Toward African Americans: Decision Making in History

Lesson List: Reconstruction: Critical Thinking in History

BOOK 3: RECONSTRUCTION TO PROGRESSIVISM RECONSTRUCTION UNIT (partial list)

  • LESSON 6: Skill: EVALUATE INTERPRETATIONS Historical Topic: How Corrupt Were Reconstruction Governments?

  • LESSON 7: Skill: EVALUATE INTERPRETATIONS Historical Topic: Was Reconstruction a Tragic Era?

  • LESSON 8: Skill: EVALUATE EVIDENCE Historical Topic: Visual Evidence on Reconstruction

  • LESSON 9: Skill: ANALYZE EVIDENCE Historical Topic: Why Was the Fourteenth Amendment Passed?

Lesson List: Civil War / Reconstruction: Decision Making in History

  • LESSON 1 – African-Americans in the Civil War: Will you recruit African-Americans into the Union army? SAMPLE LESSON

  • LESSON 2 – Northern Civil War Strategy: What will your war strategy be?

  • LESSON 3 – Northern Civil War Policies at Home: How will you finance the war? What will your policies be on transcontinental railroad, tariff, public land, and national bank?

  • LESSON 4 – Freedmen: What will you do as a freedman in 1865 now that you are free?

  • LESSON 5 – Reconstruction Policies: What reconstruction policies will you adopt as President Johnson? As Congress?

  • LESSON 6 – 14th and 15th Amendments: How will you protect the civil rights of freedmen?

  • LESSON 7 – Jim Crow Era: What position will you take as a southern white person with regard to freedmen in the 1870s?

Free Critical Thinking Lesson: Reconstruction + Night Riders Terrorism (Evaluating evidence)

Published Materials

Free Lesson! Conspiracy Theories (1860-1875)