Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
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This worksheet helps students analyze an 1873 poster promoting the Grange Movement, an organization of farmers founded in 1867.

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Date: 2013

This worksheet helps students take notes as they watch the Dr. Toer's documentary on the progress and problems experienced by freed slaves during Reconstruction.

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Date: 2013

This set of worksheets provides reading questions and writing tasks that cover five themes (work, corruption, tensions among immigrant groups, conflict with Indians, boomtowns) found in the historical fiction book, The Journal of Sean Sullivan.

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Date: 2011

This is a list of the book’s themes along with the related journal entries.

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Date: 2011

In this activity, students are guided through a close reading of The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, a fictional book for young readers based on historical sources. Students will read a short excerpt from the beginning of the book and determine the meaning of key words. Working in groups, students will then read…

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Date: 2011

This is a basic vocabulary list to use with this book. There are other words and terms that your students may want to add in the space provided at the end.

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Date: 2011

These worksheets help students analyze the Theodor Kaufmann painting On to Liberty. The graphic organizer included here can also be used to analyze the painting A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson. The worksheets are included as part of Lessons in Looking: Contraband in Paintings.

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Date: 2011

This worksheet helps students analyze the 1863 testimony of Captain C.B. Wilder, who attested to the impact of contraband slaves during the early years of the Civil War.

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Date: 2011

This worksheet helps students analyze the 1865 print Lincoln in Richmond.

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Date: 2011

This worksheet helps students analyze a letter from John Boston, a runaway slave during the Civil War, to his wife.

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Date: 2011