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The Woodrow Wilson House in Columbia is the only museum in the nation dedicated to telling the story of Reconstruction. Reconstruction - the period after the end of the Civil War - remains one of the...
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Standard 5-1
5-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of Reconstruction and its impact on the United States.
Grade(s): 5
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
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Reconstruction Amendments
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Students will complete research on one of the Reconstruction amendments. After completing research, students will create a project demonstrating their knowledge of that particular amendment as if they...
Reconstruction - Infused Lesson ( Literacy and Music)
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Two lessons for a unit based on Reconstruction - one that uses theme and another that uses music.
Amendments during Reconstruction
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Students will be able to identify parts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and how each impacted the people of the United States during Reconstruction.
Sharecropping Simulation
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Students will get to time travel and see what life of a sharecropper was like. Did they make the right choice making a deal with the landowner? Let them take a trip back and time and see what they...
Reconstruction - 3 Plans
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Students will research the 3 plans during Reconstruction (Lincoln, Johnson, Congress) and decide which plan they would use and why.
Analyzing Political Cartoons
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Students will learn different strategies that will help them to analyze the overall meaning of a political cartoon. The cartoons are focused on the Reconstruction Era. Once the students become...
Discrimination in 20th Century
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: Explain the practice of discrimination and the passage of discriminatory laws in the United States and their impact on the rights of African Americans, including the Jim Crow laws and the ruling in...
3D VR - Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!
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Located on 1705 Hampton Street, in historic downtown Columbia, South Carolina, this is the home where President Woodrow Wilson spent four years of his childhood. The house was built in 1871, during...