Period 5: 1844-1877 - Disunion, Civil War, and Reconstruction
School Closure Review Session
End of Period 4, Start of Period 5 Video HERE
Rest of Period 5 Video Here (Coming 4/3/2020)
Period 5 Curricular Framework Document
Period 5 Sample Short Answer Questions (Coming 4/3/2020)
Curricular framework with our annotations
Rest of Period 5 Video Here (Coming 4/3/2020)
Period 5 Curricular Framework Document
Period 5 Sample Short Answer Questions (Coming 4/3/2020)
Curricular framework with our annotations
Content Block Activity Files
Click on the links below to download and complete activities:
- Scored Discussion #1 - Manifest Destiny Reading:
- Reading selection by Howard Zinn from A People's History of the United States:
- Directions for Discussion Pre-write (These are DIFFERENT from last time!)
- Student Sample (NOT perfect, but a good start - Problems include the fact that the student did not define the terms they selected and did not write questions for the in class discussion)
- Discussion Scoring Standards
- Rock, Paper, Scissors by Jill Lepore
- Irish Immigration Documents
- Slave Narrative Excerpts
- Civil War Webquest
- Women in the Civil War
- The Cult of Domesticity
- Republican Party Platforms, 1856 & 1860
- Lincoln Letters
- Secession Ordinances
- Historiography of Reconstruction
- Fourth of July, 1876 Activity Documents
- Unit Theme Summary form
Skills Activity Files

historiography_of_the_mexican_american_war.pdf |
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1850_compromisea.pdf |

flow_chart_leading_to_the_civil_war_blank.pdf |

radical_reconstruction_sheg_edited.pdf |
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Document Recitation Block Files

osullivan_-_manifest_destiny_speech.pdf |

civil_disobedience.pdf |

frederick_douglass_on_the_fourth_of_july.pdf |

rise_of_the_cotton_kingdom.pdf |

george_fitzhugh_-_blessings_of_slavery.pdf |

david_walker’s_appeal.pdf |

hinton_helper_-_impending_crisis.pdf |
*NOTE: It was a criminal offense to own "Impending Crisis in the South." in North Carolina!

uncle_toms_cabin.pdf |

sullivan_ballou_letter.pdf |

the_emancipation_proclamation.pdf |

voices_of_reconstruction.pdf |
Old PowerPoints for Reference

manifest_destiny.pdf |

slavery___sectionalism.pdf |

disunion_leads_to_war.pdf |

reconstruction.pdf |

manifest_destiny_ghhs.pptx |

civil_war_backup.pptx |
Targeted Standards
NAT-2.0 Explain how interpretations of the Constitution and debates over rights, liberties, and definitions of citizenship have affected American values, politics, and society.
CUL-4.0 Explain how different group identities, including racial, ethnic, class, and regional identities, have emerged and changed over time.
MIG-1.0 Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America and, later, the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society.
MIG-2.0 Analyze causes of internal migration and patterns of settlement in what would become the United States, and explain how migration has affected American life.
CUL-4.0 Explain how different group identities, including racial, ethnic, class, and regional identities, have emerged and changed over time.
MIG-1.0 Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America and, later, the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society.
MIG-2.0 Analyze causes of internal migration and patterns of settlement in what would become the United States, and explain how migration has affected American life.