Harriet Beecher Stowe,

author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

 

 

Fort Sumter

 

General Sherman

 

Robert E. Lee

 

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

 

 

 

 

Historical Understandings

SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.

 

a. Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.

 

b. Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.

 

c. Identify major battles and campaigns:

Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.

 

d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee,

Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

 

e. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

 

 

SS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.

 

a. Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

 

b. Explain the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

 

c. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African- Americans were prevented from exercising their newly won rights; include a discussion of Jim Crow laws and customs.

 

Civil War (jeopardy)

Gov't/Civil War Jeopardy 

Civil War Lesson Plans 

Role Play Trial of the Secret Six

American History Clip Art

Free Templates

Background to the Conflict

 

 

Flip Book

Letter Generator

ReadWriteThink Printing Press

Unit 3 Family Newsletter

Unit 4 Family Newsletter

 

 

General Info

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/

http://www.civilwar.com/

Movie:  Civil War

The Civil War for 5th graders  

Financing the Civil War 

Uniforms of the Civil War

The Gettysburg Address

Civil War Ends - A Child's Diary (primary document)

Eyewitness to History  

Goober Peas - Peanuts

The Civil War for Kids

Union Troops Furnished and Deaths

Official Records - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Gettysburg Report

North American Slave Narratives

Results of 1860 Census

Ordinances of Secession of the 13 Confederate States of America

Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Constitution of the United States

Georgia Declaration of Secession

Texas Declaration of Secession

Mississippi Declaration of Secession

Constitution of the United States

The Bill or Rights and Amendments

Fugitive Slave Act

Declaration of Independence

Emancipation Proclamation

Dyer's (Union) Eastern Department and Armies

Dyer's (Union) Western Department and Armies

Dred Scott Decision

9. Collection from the Southern Historical Society Papers

Born in Slavery: Former Slaves Interviewed in the 1930's

 

 

Events/Places:

Alphabetical List of Battles:

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/alpha.html

 

http://www.civilwar.com/content/category/22/54/48/

Interactive Map-Underground Rail Road

Online Activities

Map of the Civil War

Gettysburg for Kids

 

Photos:

Battle of Antietam (large file 2,482k)

Battle of Gettysburg (large file 2,130k)

Battle of Fredericksburg (large file 1,776k)

Battle of Shiloh (large file 638k)

Andersonville Prison (large file 1,582k)

 

 

 

  People:

http://www.civilwar.com/content/category/25/61/53/

http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/lincoln.html

Biography Ulysses S. Grant

Biography Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad

Abraham Lincoln

 

Photos:

Portrait of General Robert E. Lee

Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln

Portrait of General Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson

Three Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg

Photo of General Ulysses S. Grant

 

 

Games

Underground Railroad Game

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

 

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Web Page Rubric:

web rubric

 

Easy Bibliography for your sources:

http://www.easybib.com/#sourceList

 

 

 

 

Updated Aug. 24, 2008