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8.3.P Extender

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Understanding the Reconstruction Era Amendments

Lesson

Grades: 8

Students will be able to analyze and interpret the meaning of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment and the impact it had on individuals and families in the Northern and Southern states in the United...

Putting Together History – The Life of Robert Smalls

Lesson

Grades: 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Part of this activity is based very loosely on the game Mastermind This activity is designed to be completed in small groups, but could be modified to be completed by individual students. Each group...

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

After the Civil War, the U.S. had a long road ahead for rebuilding the country. In addition to fixing the country's infrastructure, the U.S. needed to mend the social and political inequities many...

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...

Roots of Racism – Thinking Like a Historian about Racism | Asynchronous Studio Lessons

Video

Grades: 8 12

Teachers in this lesson have students evaluate current events surrounding racial discrimination. Teachers lead students through why and how historians use a historical lens to discuss racial issues in...

Reconstruction Unit

Lesson

Grades: 4, 8

18 day plan on Reconstruction - Performance task at the end

Henry Louis Gates Talks Reconstruction | Palmetto Scene

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. joined South Carolina ETV's Beryl Dakers in Beaufort, South Carolina to discuss his latest project, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA...

The Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The Freedmen’s Bureau had responsibility for every aspect of the lives of formerly enslaved people, and was in charge of land that came under federal control during and after the Civil War. In 1872...

White Landowners and the Transition to Free Labor | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

After the war, the South, and the nation, faced the question of how to make the transition from slave to free labor. Most former slave owners insisted that they should get their land back and maintain...

Forty Acres and a Mule | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Historian Kate Masur explains the origins of 40 Acres and a Mule, a famous phrase that many have heard but may not fully understand. It originated in the early days of Reconstruction, when General...

The Importance of Land to Freedpeople | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Freed blacks in the United States believed the government had a plan to distribute land to them, and that they were entitled to it. General Sherman’s Field Order 15 gave them small plots of farmland...

A PBL About South Carolina’s Reconstruction Constitutions

Lesson

Grades: 8

Students will examine Reconstruction from a legislative point of view and a social point of view using guiding questions and activities to examine the Reconstruction Constitutions of 1865, 1868, and...

Tell Them We Are Rising: Successes and Failures of Reconstruction for People of Color

Lesson

Grades: 8, 11

Students will determine major educational, social and political issues or problems facing African Americans following Reconstruction. Students will analyze the successes and failures of such...

Between The Waters, Part 4

Video

Grades: 4 8

The area of Georgetown went from one of the wealthiest districts prior to the Civil War, to one of the poorest. Lee Brockington, senior interpreter at Hobcaw Barony, discusses the impact of the ending...

Freedmen's Contract, 1866 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 8

Photo

Grades: 4 8

When the war ended, one of the pressing problems was the status of those who had been slaves. African-Americans had provided the essential labor, without which the agricultural economy of the region...

The Ordinance of Secession, 1860 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 4 8 12

The Ordinance of Secession, 1860. This document marked the conclusion of a movement to declare Southern independence from a national government increasingly controlled by Northerners. It was the...

The Palmetto Monument | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 14

Photo

Grades: 8

The Palmetto Monument, erected in honor of the Palmetto Regiment's heroic actions in the Mexican War, stands outside the South Carolina State House. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection...

February 3, 1870: 15th Amendment Passed | Periscope

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

February 3, 1870: 15th Amendment passed, granting right to vote to African Americans.

Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson

Grades: 4, 8, 9

This lesson can be a component of a year-long project based lesson on civil rights or one part of a single, shorter PBL focusing only the civil rights era after World War II. This particular extension...

Reconstruction | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

This show explains the importance of the election of 1876 and as a result how SC at one time had 2 governors from different political parties, who tried to rule the state at the same time...

Reconstruction Ends — A Collaborative PBL About Segregation and Harsh Discriminatory Southern Policies

Lesson

Grades: 8

During Reconstruction and the years following the end of Reconstruction, segregation and redemptive southern policies greatly affected the lives of African Americans. Use the background information...

Reconstruction | Conversations on SC History

Episode 14

Video

Grades: 4 8 11

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Reconstruction is discussed in three lessons: Difficult Period in History Economics Election Issues.