Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class! Lectures with graphic organizers. Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons. Lotsa mapping. Games galore, including “The Gong Show.” Group analysis and debates. Projects: Students teach the class. Homework on the internet. Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the Civil War” (recall terms). “Can you talk like Abraham Lincoln?” (define terms). “Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.) Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!” Concludes with the mother of all tests: 699 questions. [Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]

• The Causes: states’ rights, sectional differences, slavery, and the rise of a new political party. Shocking speech by John C. Calhoun. Economic differences between the North and South. “Name that region!” Three Leaders – Calhoun, Webster, and Clay. Mason-Dixon Line. Board game: “Slavery spread to the West.” Game: “Name that Compromise!” Debate the Fugitive Slave Act. Internet research: Dred Scott. Debate: “John Brown – martyr or madman?” Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Republican Party. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. “A House Divided.”
• The Leaders: Lincoln’s Inaugural Address. Interpret photos of the leaders. Map the lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. “Who am I?” (game). Write a persuasive essay: “I am U.S. Grant . . .”
• The Events: Every war can be broken down into 7 parts. Map the opposing sides. Play “Name that Strength!” (Why the North was bound to win.) Film worksheets for A&E’s “Foot Soldiers – Johnny Reb and Billy Yank.” Map the battles. Interpret battlefield photos. Problem-solving: “What would YOU have done?” African American troops and the Emancipation Proclamation. The Gettysburg Address.
• The Results: Preserved the Union, Amendments, Reconstruction, the Republican Party dominated politics for the next 70 years. Includes a full section on Reconstruction.

There are 125 lessons.

There are 699 test questions.

Introduction page 13
Lesson #1 Lecture What was the Civil War?
Lesson #2 Graphic organizer The Civil War:who, what, where, when, why and how?
Lesson #3 Graphic organizer The seven stages of the Civil War

1. The Causes of the Civil War page 17
Lesson #4 Graphic organizer The Four Causes

States’ Rights
Lesson #5 Lecture The States’ Rights Doctrine
Lesson #6 Graphic organizer State’s Rights
Lesson #7 Group analysis Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept: States’ Rights
Lesson #8 Lecture The Nullification Crisis of 1832
Lesson #9 Document “Slavery is a positive good” - speech by John C. Calhoun
Lesson #10 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Analyze one concept - Nullification
Lesson #11 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Analyze one concept - States’ rights
Lesson #12 Lecture States’ Rights today: Since the Civil Rights movement

Sectional differences
Lesson #13 Lecture Sectionalism
Lesson #14 Graphic organizer Sectionalism: who, what, where, when, why and how?
Lesson #15 Transparency The Two Sections - how did they differ?
Lesson #16 Lecture The Delicate Balance - the South was losing political power
Lesson #17 Document Calhoun’s speech - the South was losing political power
Lesson #18 Game Name that Region!
Lesson #19 Game Name that Region!
Lesson #20 Game Three Leaders - Calhoun, Webster, and Clay
Lesson #21 Game Three Leaders - Calhoun, Webster, and Clay

Slavery
Lesson #22 Timeline Timeline on the spread of slavery
Lesson #23 Mapping The Fugitive Slave Act tried to crush the Underground Railroad
Lesson #24 Mapping How slavery spread to the West!
Lesson #25 Lecture The Three Compromises
Lesson #26 Game The Three Compromises
Lesson #27 Game The Three Compromises
Lesson #28 Internet The Three Compromises
Lesson #29 Document The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
Lesson #30 Debate The Fugitive Slave Act:"Resolved, a bad law must be broken."
Lesson #31 Debate Popular Sovereignty: "Resolved, if the majority want slavery ...”
Lesson #32 Internet Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857
Lesson #33 Internet John Brown’s raid, 1859
Lesson #34 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Analyze one concept - Dred Scott case
Lesson #35 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Analyze one concept - John Brown raid
Lesson #36 Debate “Resolved, John Brown was a madman.”
Lesson #37 Game Slavery spreads to the West

The Republican Party
Lesson #38 Lecture The Republican Party
Lesson #39 Graphic organizer The Republican Party: who, what, where, when, why and how?
Lesson #40 Document Platform of the Republican Party, 1856
Lesson #41 Graphic organizer Why was the Republican Party formed?
Lesson #42 Game The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lesson #43 Lecture The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Lesson #44 Quotations Interpret famous quotations by Abraham Lincoln
Lesson #45 Document “A House Divided” speech by Abraham Lincoln
Lesson #46 Internet Election of 1860, Secession, and the Civil War
Lesson #47 Quotations Interpret 17 famous quotations
Lesson #48 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: The Republican Party
Lesson #49 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Abraham Lincoln
Lesson #50 Debate “Resolved, slavery was the ONLY cause of the Civil War.”

Review
Lesson #51 Game The ABCs of the causes of the Civil War (recall terms)
Lesson #52 Game Can you talk like an abolitionist? (define terms)
Lesson #53 Game Mars/Venus
Lesson #54 Game Honk if you hate history!
Lesson #55 Game Stump the Teacher!
Lesson #56 Game The Last Man Standing
Test 363 questions page 91

2. The Civil War page 141
Lesson #57 Lecture What do students already know about the Civil War?
Lesson #58 Graphic organizer The Civil War can be broken down into 7 stages.

Principles
Lesson #59 Document President Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861
Lesson #60 Document President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865

Leaders
Lesson #61 Internet Photos of famous people during the Civil War
Lesson #62 Story The life of Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson #63 Graphic organizer Character web for U.S. Grant
Lesson #64 Story The life of Robert E. Lee
Lesson #65 Lecture Robert E. Lee’s Childhood
Lesson #66 Graphic organizer Character web for Robert E. Lee
Lesson #67 Graphic organizer Compare & Contrast: U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Lesson #68 Writing speeches Using the encyclopedia, write speeches by 14 famous people
Lesson #69 Quotations Interpret 10 quotations by famous generals
Lesson #70 Game The ABCs of Civil War people (recall people)
Lesson #71 Game I am U.S. Grant (identify people)
Lesson #72 Writing activity Expressive Essay: I am Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson #73 Writing activity Narrative Essay: I am Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson #74 Writing activity Informative Essay: I am Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson #75 Writing activity Persuasive Essay: I am Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson #76 Writing activity How to edit the essays

Events
Lesson #77 Timeline Timeline of the Civil War, 1860-1865
Lesson #78 Mapping Map the North, the South, . . . and the Border States
Lesson #79 Game Strength or Weakness? The balance of forces, North and South


Lesson #80 Group analysis Robert E. Lee faced tremendous odds. Why?
Lesson #81 Debate "Resolved, THE NORTH was bound to win the war.
Lesson #82 Film worksheet “Foot Soldiers: The Yankees” (A&E classic)
Lesson #83 Film worksheet “Foot Soldiers: The Rebels” (A&E classic)
Lesson #84 Mapping Map the battles!
Lesson #85 Mapping Most of the battles were in Virginia
Lesson #86 Mapping Locate the battles
Lesson #87 Game Which theater of war?
Lesson #88 Library research Cities of the Civil War
Lesson #89 Internet Photos of the Civil War: Highlights Matthew Brady
Lesson #90 Group analysis What would YOU have done? 21 problems, with actual answers
Lesson #91 Game Name that battle!
Lesson #92 Document The Emancipation Proclamation: Causes & Results
Lesson #93 Internet Black soldiers and regiments
Lesson #94 Lecture w/ mapping The Battle of Gettysburg
Lesson #95 Document The Gettysburg Address
Lesson #96 Quotations Interpret 14 quotations from famous documents
Lesson #97 Game The ABCs of events of the Civil War (recall terms)
Lesson #98 Game Can you talk like Johnny Reb or Billy Yank? (define terms)
Lesson #99 Graphic organizer The Civil War: who, what, when, why, where - and how?
Lesson #100 Student projects The Battle of Gettysburg
Lesson #101 Student projects The Civil War
Lesson #102 Student projects Billboards are a great way to summarize

The Results
Lesson #103 Graphic organizer Four results of the Civil War
Lesson #104 Game The ABCs of the consequences of the Civil War (recall terms)
Lesson #105 Game The Consequences (define terms)
Lesson #106 Chart The number of casualties
Lesson #107 Quotations What the leaders said at the end of the war
Lesson #108 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: “With malice toward none . . .”
Lesson #109 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: What do you think of the Civil War? Test 233 questions page 224

3. Reconstruction page 259

Lesson #110 Lecture What was Reconstruction?
Lesson #111 Graphic organizer Who, what, where, when, why and how?
Lesson #112 Internet The highlights of Reconstruction
Lesson #113 Internet The Freedmen’s Bureau
Lesson #114 Lecture The Reconstruction Amendments: 13th, 14th, 15th
Lesson #115 Document The Black Codes
Lesson #116 Lecture Jim Crow laws
Lesson #117 Internet The Ku Klux Klan
Lesson #118 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: What do you think of Reconstruction?
Lesson #119 Internet Why did black families move out West?
Lesson #120 Internet The Exodusters
Lesson #121 Lecture The Buffalo Soldiers
Lesson #122 Mapping The Buffalo Soldiers
Lesson #123 Game The ABCs of Reconstruction (recall terms)
Lesson #124 Game Can you talk like a Radical Republican? (define terms) Test 103 questions page 285

4. Wars of the 19th Century page 305
Lesson #125 Game Name that War!

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