New Liberties and New Threats During Reconstruction
This activity features differentiation and scaffolding to help students understand the new social freedoms and new threats to the families of freedmen during Reconstruction. Students work in heterogeneous skill-level groups to analyze several primary sources and prepare to write a paragraph about freedmen's new social freedoms. The activity in the lesson is framed for several consecutive 45-minute lessons, but could be adapted to meet the teacher's needs. The activity features documents from HERB that have been edited for different skill levels; the edited documents are including in the attached PDF "New Liberties and New Threats Worksheet." New York City high school teachers Arthur Everett and Samantha Schoeller created this activity.
Arthur Everett, Laura Garrity, and Samantha Schoeller
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2010
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English
Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Adding to the Picture: The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Civil Rights and Citizenship
In this activity, students examine three documents to better understand the goals, participants, and leaders of the 1963 March on Washington.
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2010
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English
Postwar America (1946-1975)
Reformers versus Residents in Five Points: A Role Play
Immigration and Migration
In this activity students learn about the religious, class, and ethnic tensions between reformers and residents in the working-class Irish immigrant neighborhood of Five Points. Students research roles of a Protestant reformer and two Irish women debating whether the reformer should send Irish children to live with upper-class parents. Â This activity accompanies the film <a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/five-points/" target="_blank"><em>Five Points: New York's Irish Working Class in the 1850s</em></a>, but parts of it can be completed without the film.
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2009
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English
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Art, Commentary and Evidence: Analysis of "The White Man's Burden"
Expansion and Imperialism
In this activity students analyze Kipling's famous poem about imperialism and read several poems that were written in response to it. Students discuss how effective the poems are as art, political commentary, and historical evidence.
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2008
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English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Understanding the 1855 Census Database
Immigration and Migration
Work
This activity helps students navigate and make sense of the information available in the Five Points census database. In the activity, students use the database to test hypotheses about life and residents in the Five Points. For this activity, students will need access to a computer with an internet connection. Â This activity can be followed up with the activity <a href="../../../items/show/1497" target="_blank">Telling the Whole Story: Irish Americans in Five Points</a>.
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2010
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English
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Telling the Whole Story: Irish Americans in Five Points
Immigration and Migration
In this activity students gather and analyze data from the 1855 census of the Five Points neighborhood. Students compare stereotypes of Irish immigrants with evidence from the census. Then students compare their census research with other primary sources describing life in Five Points to conclude how accurate different types of sources about urban immigrant life are. Students will need access to the internet to complete this activity.
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2010
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English
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Social Reform and Issues of Race and Class
Immigration and Migration
Race and Ethnicity
In this activity students explore how Progressive Era reforms did not apply universally, but rather varied depending on issues like race and class. Students watch the 30-minute film<em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/heaven-will-protect-the-working-girl/" target="_blank"> Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl</a></em> and read an article that explains tensions among immigrants and African Americans in the Progressive Era.
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2007
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English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Create a Magic Lantern Show: Freedpeople in the Reconstruction South
Slavery and Abolition
Civil Rights and Citizenship
In this activity students create a "magic lantern show," or presentation that illustrates how African American defined freedom for themselves after emancipation and the challenges and threats they faced. Students use primary sources from the Reconstruction period. This activity can accompany a viewing of the film<em> <a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/dr/" target="_blank">Dr. Toer's Amazing Magic Lantern Show: A Different View of Emancipation</a></em>.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2009.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2009
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English
Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
A Country within a Country: Understanding San Francisco's Chinatown
Immigration and Migration
In this activity, students use a range of primary and secondary sources about San Francisco's Chinatown (1880s-1920) to explore what the community meant to residents and to outsiders.
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2008
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English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
The New York City Draft Riots: A Role Play
In this activity students research roles as either Irish immigrants or African-American residents in the midst of the New York City Draft Riots that took place in July 1863. Students gather evidence from primary sources to develop their characters, based on actual census records, and then enact a role play debating whether to stay in the city or flee (if they are African American) and whether to participate in the riots or protect their black neighbors (if they are Irish immigrants).
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2008
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English
Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)