Civil War and Reconstruction Unit - Lessons, Notes, Test, and Activities

This Civil War Unit includes everything you will need to teach your students about the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era of American History. Students will learn about important causes of the Civil War, Life during the Civil War, and Civil War Battles and Surrender. They will also learn about the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War.

• This product includes everything that you will need to teach about this complex time in America's history!
• The resources in this bundle come in both printable and digital versions, which is perfect for use through Google Classroom™!

This Bundle Includes:

1. Unit Plan Outline and Suggestions
2. The Beginning of the Civil War PowerPoint Lesson
3. Life During the Civil War PowerPoint Lesson
4. Civil War Battles and Surrender PowerPoint Lesson
5. Reconstruction After the Civil War PowerPoint Lesson
6. Guided Notes that follow along with each lesson
7. Slave Life Webquest
8. Civil War Quiz
9. Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle
10. Civil War Task Cards
11. Review Game
12. Civil War and Reconstruction Assessment
13. Digital Links to all of the printable resources

The lessons cover the following topics:

1. Rural vs. Urban Life

2. Tariffs

3. Sectionalism

4. Slavery and the Triangular Trade

5. Slave Resistance and the Underground Railroad

6. The Missouri Compromise

7. The Compromise of 1850

8. John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

1. Secession

2. Jefferson Davis

3. Fort Sumter

4. Union/Confederacy Advantages

5. War Strategies

6. Battle of Bull Run

7. Battle of Antietem

8. Robert E. Lee

9. Technology

10. Emancipation Proclamation

11. Battle of Gettysburg

12. Gettysburg Address

13. Battle of Vicksburg

14. Ulysseus S. Grant

15. William T. Sherman

16. Surrender

17. Life for soldiers, African Americans, and women

1. Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction

2. Lincoln's assassination

3. Andrew Johnson's beliefs and plan

4. Black Codes

5. Freedmen's Bureau

6. 14th, 15th, 16th Amendments

7. Congress takes charge

8. Sharecroppers

9. Successes/Failures of Reconstruction

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