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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...
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This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into founding principles as viewed through this period of federal government involvement, the development and realignment of a new labor system not based on a system of slavery, and the significant political realignment of the South.
Grade(s): 4
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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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...
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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...
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This photo gallery includes the following: The 19th Amendment In the beginning, the Abolition and Women's Suffrage Movements were intertwined Frederick Douglass - A famous proponent of Women's...
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The question of women's suffrage in the U.S. had been debated long before the movement's humble beginnings at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848. Part 1 of this edition on the Women's Suffrage...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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South Carolinians, under Lincoln's plan for the restoration of the Union, could be restored to citizenship by taking an oath of loyalty to the United States, such as this one signed by Thomas D...
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February 3, 1870: 15th Amendment passed, granting right to vote to African Americans.