The Emancipation Proclamation
Students will reflect on the words, meaning, and impact of the Emancipation Proclamation through a 21st century skills activity of their choice.
The Case of Dred Scott
Using close reading and research, students will discover the facts and significance of this historic case and apply their knowledge through dramatization.
Documents of the Great Debaters
Students will examine the Compromise of 1850 and use 21st century skills to evaluate various positions on the proposed legislation.
- Spotlight on Abraham Lincoln
- Spotlight on Ely Parker
- Spotlight on Jefferson Davis
- Emancipation Proclamation
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Dred Scott v. Sandford Graphic Organizer - Daniel Webster on the Compromise of 1850
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Excerpt of the Compromise of 1850 - Compromise of 1850 Graphic Organizer
- Henry Clay on the Compromise of 1850
- John C. Calhoun on the Compromise of 1850
- Sam Houston on the Compromise of 1850
- Stephen Douglas on the Compromise of 1850
- William Henry Seward on the Admission of California
- Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- Lincoln’s House Divided Speech
- Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
- Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Black Code of Mississippi
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Compromise of 1850
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech
- Gettysburg Address
- Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address to the Confederacy
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
- Thirteenth Amendment
- War Dept. General Order 143
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Citizenship -
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
- War Department General Order 143
- South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address to the Confederacy
- Gettysburg Address
- Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Compromise of 1850
- Black Code of Mississippi
- Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
- Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- Abraham Linoln’s House Divided Speech
- Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
