Texas Public Broadcasting
Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Civil War and Reconstruction 1861 1870
An overview of how Texas fared in the Civil War and during Reconstruction. Includes links to related videos and lesson plans.
Library of Congress
Loc: Civil War and Reconstruction
This site from the Library of Congress provides overviews of the South and North during the Civil War include soldiers' stories from both sides. There are primary documents on these topics as well as Freedmen and the Reconstruction.
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Texas Historical Commission: Texas in the Civil War [Pdf]
A comprehensive 36-page history of the Civil War in Texas. Includes numerous images, maps, primary documents, profiles of leading figures, a timeline, and information about battles. Specific topics are addressed, such as the cotton...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Northern Draft Riots During the Civil War
This collection of primary sources explore northern draft riots that occurred during the Civil War.
Civil War Home
Home of the American Civil War: Election of 1864
The re-election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864 was not a done deal. Read about the peace explorations, the Republican and Democratic conventions, the campaigns, and eventual "landslide" for Lincoln. From "The Civil War and Reconstruction" by...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Reconstruction
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Civil War and Reconstruction [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, students examine the Secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction to learn how...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: The Civil War and Reconstruction
AP U.S. History learning module on the Civil War and Reconstruction. Comprehensive multi-media unit materials.
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Chapter Eight: Civil War to Centennial [Pdf]
A teacher guide designed to support a visit to the Bullock Museum, but can be used on its own using available resources. Includes information, discussion questions, activities, and worksheets. This module looks at Texas from the time of...
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: Alabama and the Civil War
Encyclopedia entries of the significant people, places, and events that occurred in Alabama during the Civil War and the period immediately following, including the Battle of Mobile Bay and Confederate naval operations in the state.
Other
Historical Boys' Clothing: The American Civil War: Reconstruction
Outlines the major programs of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, and the discrimination that African Americans faced, such as from the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan. Also discusses the amendments made to the Constitution...
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 1877)
The election of 1860 sparked the secession of the southern states. This group of states formed the Confederacy while the northern states to be named the Union. This unit will examine in detail the events which then led to the Civil War...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids History: Civil War Reconstruction
On this website, students explore the reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. Learn about the efforts made to admit the southern states back into the Union.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Effects of the Civil War
Students will work in groups to research the causes of the Civil War, events during the war, and Reconstruction. They will compile their information into a multimedia presentation. They will use research to answer the essential question,...
Other
Radford University: The Civil War for Fifth Graders
Covers many aspects of the Civil War, without too much text for Grade 5 students. Includes links to additional information and a few learning activities. (Note: Some links may no longer be working.)
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Reconstruction State by State
Select any US state to learn about how the Civil War affected the agriculture and economy of that state.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Civil War and New Patterns of American Politics
Overview of the new political patterns which developed as a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Secession and Civil War
Part of a unit on the Civil War and Reconstruction, this section provides an overview of the formation of the Confederacy and subsequent secession of states in the South.
Civil War Home
Home of the American Civil War: Black Codes in the Former Confederate States
Read about the black codes in various states enacted as a result of Johnson's lenient Reconstruction plans. From "Trial by Fire, A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction" by Paige Smith.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: After the Civil War: The New South
After the Civil War, there was some impetus to modernize the South's economy to make it more industrialized and less agrarian. It never gained traction while sharecropping and tenant farming did, ensuring the persistence of rural...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Learning Page: The North During the Civil War
This is a brief summary of how the Civil War affected the Northern states. It has just a small mention of the North's industrial nature, but you can link to first-person accounts of what it was like to live in the North during Southern...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Post Civil War America
[Free Registration/Login Required] "A variety of materials demonstrates the rise and fall of civil rights for African Americans during the latter half of the nineteenth century, including constitutional amendments, sharecropper...
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Al Dept of Archives & History: African Americans: Reconstruction Lesson [Pdf]
With this lesson plan, students learn about the lives of African Americans during Reconstruction. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Reconstruction Goes South 1867 1877
So we've reconstructed, now what? A slideshow which illustrates what happens in the southern United States following the Civil War Reconstruction.
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