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Gold Price Board from Black Friday 1869
Gold Price Board from Black Friday 1869
The culmination of Jay Gould's failed scheme to corner the Gold Market resulted in a collapse of the gold market on Sept 24, 1869 - this is the blackboard that tracked the price of gold on that day. Students who've seen the ":zipper" of stock prices on the bottom of TV screens may want to see what crude technology was used after the Civil War. The handwriting on the bottom of the board was written by James Garfield, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee who investigated the scandal.
#economics#primary source#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
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Gold Price Board from Black Friday 1869
The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era
The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era
This exercise focuses on the meaning and reality of emancipation for African Americans. How did life change for ex-slaves in the South during the Reconstruction era? What did emancipation mean to former slaves in terms of their hopes and expectations? What did emancipation mean in terms of the realities of their lives after the Civil War? Finally, if Reconstruction in some sense failed them, why? Was a greater degree of change possible given the players involved and the circumstances?
#lesson plan#primary source#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu·
The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era
eHistory - Projects - Mapping Occupation
eHistory - Projects - Mapping Occupation
Mapping Occupation, by Gregory P. Downs and Scott Nesbit, captures the regions where the United States Army could effectively act as an occupying force in the Reconstruction South. For the first time, it presents the basic nuts-and-bolts facts about the Army's presence, movements that are central to understanding the occupation of the South. That data in turn reorients our understanding of the Reconstruction that followed Confederate surrender. Viewers can use these maps as a guide through a complex period, a massive data source, and a first step in capturing the federal government's new reach into the countryside.
#digitization#primary source#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·ehistory.org·
eHistory - Projects - Mapping Occupation
CSI: Dixie - Coronors' Inquests from South Carolina between 1800 and 1900
CSI: Dixie - Coronors' Inquests from South Carolina between 1800 and 1900
Collecting extant coroners' inquests for the state of South Carolina between 1800 and 1900, "CSI: Dixie" provides rare glimpses into Victorian-era suicide, homicide, infanticide, abortion, child abuse, spousal abuse, master-slave murder, and slave on slave violence. Coroners’ inquests are some of the richest records we have of life and death in the nineteenth century South. As mortals, we all die, but we do not die equally. Race, place, gender, profession, behavior, and good and bad luck play large roles in determining how we go out of the world.
#New Evidence#digitization#primary source#US I Unit 2: Market Revolution#US I Unit 5 Civil War#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·csidixie.org·
CSI: Dixie - Coronors' Inquests from South Carolina between 1800 and 1900
Mississippi's Black Codes
Mississippi's Black Codes
A teacher doesn't ever have to talk about Black Codes, just have the students look through the text of the laws themselves. That should be enough. Just reading the first paragraph of Vagrancy should do it
#primary source#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·teachingamericanhistory.org·
Mississippi's Black Codes
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
This map is a "must-see" for every student exploring issues related to Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Era or the race issue in US History; particularly students who live in New Jersey. Having this up on the screen and letting students look through it is the perfect compliment to whole-class discussion or online forum homework assignment that seeks to find explanations and understanding regarding segregation.
#US II Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·demographics.coopercenter.org·
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War | EDSITEment
Starting off by having students read Walt Whitman and Sherman's letter to Atlanta, this lesson has students analyze date rich maps of the south to look at the conditions after the war, then read primary source documents organized by state. This lesson will take a day or two, but will be well worth it.
#lesson plans#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·edsitement.neh.gov·
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War | EDSITEment
Legislation Impossible - BackStory with the American History Guys
Legislation Impossible - BackStory with the American History Guys
One of the segments of this program is a seven minute focus on the history of segregation. This could be applicable to a Reconstruction, Progressive Era or Civil Rights era lesson or homework assignment. Take a look at the transcript to get a quick idea of what the program addresses.
#audio content#African Americans#US II Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·backstoryradio.org·
Legislation Impossible - BackStory with the American History Guys
General Robert E. Lee's Parole and Citizenship
General Robert E. Lee's Parole and Citizenship
Robert E Lee's formal rights of citizenship were never restored to him while he was alive but were restored to him posthumously in 1975. Perhaps Gerald Ford's comments when he signed the special congressional resolution could be used as a prompt in a lesson or even a "do now" activity at the start of a Reconstruction lesson.
#President Ford#lesson plan#primary source#US II Unit 7: Rebellion and Reaction amid the Seventies Malaise (1972-1980)#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·archives.gov·
General Robert E. Lee's Parole and Citizenship
The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era
The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era
"This exercise focuses on the meaning and reality of emancipation for African Americans. How did life change for ex-slaves in the South during the Reconstruction era? What did emancipation mean to former slaves in terms of their hopes and expectations? What did emancipation mean in terms of the realities of their lives after the Civil War? Finally, if Reconstruction in some sense failed them, why? Was a greater degree of change possible given the players involved and the circumstances?"
#lesson plan#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu·
The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era
Trial Record in the Case of United States vs Susan B. Anthony (1873)
Trial Record in the Case of United States vs Susan B. Anthony (1873)
Susan B Anthony was arrested, tried and convicted for voting. Perhaps the manner in which women's rights is analyzed determines the nature of students' understanding. It is one thing to say that women did not have the right to vote, it is altogether another to say they were arrested for it. This could also be used in a discussion about democracy. If students agree the the founding fathers created a democracy, then how do they explain people going to jail for voting?
#US History I#primary source#US II Unit 2: Progressive Era#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·law2.umkc.edu·
Trial Record in the Case of United States vs Susan B. Anthony (1873)
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person
A great resource for teachers teaching Reconstruction, "white flight" or the Civil Rights movement because it shows the persistence of segregation down to the individual person. Is this de facto or de jure? Is the north more segregated than the south? Why? How does this map play into the different perspectives of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X? Does this explain why Montgomery saw a boycott and Watts saw riots?
#Maps#African Americans#US II Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·coopercenter.org·
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person
Letters of Note: To My Old Master
Letters of Note: To My Old Master
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).
#slavery#primary source#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·lettersofnote.com·
Letters of Note: To My Old Master
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
This lesson will introduce the main ideas of Reconstruction and examine the events that took place as the Civil War came to a close. Students will identify the problems facing the nation at this time, and evaluate different plans for dealing with these challenges.
#lesson plan#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·chnm.gmu.edu·
Reconstruction
After Reconstruction - (Library of Congress)
After Reconstruction - (Library of Congress)
In this lesson, students use the collection's Timeline of African American History, 1852-1925 to identify problems and issues facing African Americans immediately after Reconstruction. Working in small groups on assigned issues, students search the collection for documents that describe the problem and consider opposing points of view, and suggest a remedy for the problem. Students then present the results of their research in a simulated African American Congress, modeled on a congress documented in the collection's special presentation, Progress of a People.
#lesson plan#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·loc.gov·
After Reconstruction - (Library of Congress)
Civil War and Reconstruction | Stanford History Education Group
Civil War and Reconstruction | Stanford History Education Group
In the Civil War and Reconstruction unit, students engage in contentious historiographic debates about the period--Was Lincoln a racist? Was Reconstruction a success or failure? Was John Brown a "misguided fanatic"? Did Lincoln free the slaves, or did the slaves free themselves? The unit includes two Structured Academic Controversy lessons, an Opening Up the Textbook lesson on sharecropping, and a look at Thomas Nast's political cartoons.
#lesson plan#US I Unit 5 Civil War#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·sheg.stanford.edu·
Civil War and Reconstruction | Stanford History Education Group
Reconstruction: Digital History
Reconstruction: Digital History
Here you will learn about President Lincoln’s and President Johnson’s plans to readmit the Confederate states to the Union; the more stringent Congressional plan; the struggle between President Johnson and Congress, including the impeachment vote; the Reconstruction era’s contributions to civil rights; the reasons for Reconstruction’s demise; and the emergence of sharecropping.
#textbook#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·digitalhistory.uh.edu·
Reconstruction: Digital History
The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of Reconstruction | EDSITEment
The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of Reconstruction | EDSITEment
This lesson plan will explore the clashes between the Radical Republicans in Congress and Presidents Lincoln and Johnson during the battles over direction of Reconstruction policy. It will also examine how these contentious divisions led to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
#lesson plan#US History I#primary source#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·edsitement.neh.gov·
The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of Reconstruction | EDSITEment
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | PBS
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | PBS
Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States.  Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
#US History#US History I#US History II#African Americans#US I Unit 6 Reconstruction
·pbs.org·
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | PBS