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Historyteacher.net: The Civil War: Quiz (1)

For Students 9th - 10th
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your comprehension of slavery in the South leading up to the Civil War.
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Causes of the Civil War: A North Georgia Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the causes of the Civil War from a southern perspective.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & the Making of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, discover how the arts of Africa, Europe, and pre-Civil War America influenced the culture of enslaved African Americans.
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PBS

Pbs: Music, Slavery and the Civil War

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson could serve as the basis of a curriculum unit on slavery and/or the Civil War. Spirituals are analyzed, especially their cultural implications.
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Tennessee History For Kids

Tennessee History for Kids: Slavery and Tennessee's War

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides information about slavery in Tennessee.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity in which students examine the concept of democracy and the idea of a "just society" through the eyes of Abraham Lincoln. Lesson includes questions for discussion and activity in which students prepare a speech on the what they...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery and the Making of America: Freedom & Emancipation

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories and other historical resources, learn about the African American reaction to emancipation and to events from the Reconstruction period following the Civil War.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Civil Rights Movement: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil...
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Columbia University & Slavery 12.columbia and the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
This website was created by faculty, students, and staff to publicly present information about Columbia's historical connections to the institution of slavery. This article focuses on President Charles King who became one of the city's...
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iCivics

I Civics: Civil Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this library of mini-lessons to teach students about the early days of the expansion of slavery in the United States through the momentous 1950s and 60s and into the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Slavery in America

For Students 9th - 10th
People enslaved Africans for their enforced labor from before America's founding until the end of the Civil War. Learn about the history of slavery, its effects on a budding nation, and the fight to abolish it. This collection includes...
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Read Works

Read Works: Lincoln and the 13th Amendment to End Slavery

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief history of the official end to slavery in America, the 13th Amendment. A paired passage is part of this module, along with a lower level passage with related...
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Digital Schomburg Images: Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 41 images depicting African American slaves in the Civil War era from the New York Public Library.
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Columbia University & Slavery 11. Columbians

For Students 9th - 10th
This website was created by faculty, students, and staff to publicly present information about Columbia's historical connections to the institution of slavery. This article looks at the different approaches among Columbians to the...
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Student Historical Journal 1984 1985: Women's Rights Before the Civil War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the pre-Civil War women's rights movement in a student essay in an historical journal from Loyola University. Find out about specific activists prominent during this time period and learn about their attempts to...
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Library of Congress

Loc: From Slavery to Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline lets students select an era in the history of blacks in United States. Text tells the highlights of the time and primary source materials are linked that pertain as well.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery and the Making of America: Slave Responses to Enslavement

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, learn how African Americans responded to enslavement prior to the Civil War. Includes interactive exercise.
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Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Landmark Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details the controversial issues regarding slavery and the effects they had on the Civil War amendments as well as on the fifth amendment. The site discusses events such as the Dred Scott case, the addition of the Civil War...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Reconstruction and Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical documents give evidence to the question of rights in the South following the Civil War. Historical narratives and government reports tell of giving the male slaves the right to vote and hold office while denying these rights...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This wonderful unit from Annenberg Media examines Reconstruction through three themes: reintegrating the former Confederate states in to the Union; the freedom of blacks and what that entailed socially and economically; and the economic...
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Columbia University & Slavery Post 1865: Faculty and Admin

For Students 9th - 10th
After the Civil War concluded in 1865 and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, Columbia University's faculty members shaped historical interpretations of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, as well as scientific theories...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Abolishing Slavery: Efforts of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Abolishing Slavery: The Efforts of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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Made From Media

Made From History: State by State History of 20th Century American Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive United States Map allows students to see how slavery split the country into two sides, but the Civil War did not resolve their differences. Each state featured is assigned a short quote, story, or fact that illuminates...
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Other

Genealogy Trails History Group: Delaware and Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at slavery in Delaware and the state's decision to remain in the Union during the Civil War.

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