Reconstruction was a period of great hope, incredible change, and efforts at rebuilding. To understand Reconstruction and race relations in the United States, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!

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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...
Reconstruction Amendments
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...

Amendments during Reconstruction
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
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...

Discrimination in 20th Century
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!
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...
What Price Freedom! Civil War & Reconstruction
What Price Freedom! Civil War & Reconstruction

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Students will discover the meaning of Reconstruction through hands-on activities.The teacher will use the book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule , Harriet Gillem Robinet and Wendell Minor, Simon & Schuster...

Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

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This lesson can be a component of a year-long project based lesson on civil rights or one part of a single, shorter PBL focusing only the civil rights era after World War II. This particular extension...